2007 grads: where did you get hired?

U.S.A. Massachusetts

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Hi everyone!

I thought it might be helpful for people to share where they got hired after graduating this May/June.... How do you like your new job, starting salary decent?, and were they fast to respond to your application? This might help alleviate some of the fears us nursing grads without a job currently have.

THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Try Vegas. We are one of the fasted growing cities and keep building new hospitals where most cities are closing them down.

Specializes in Did the job hop, now in MS. Not Bad!!!!!.

I couldn't find new grad jobs in Atlanta either. The recruiters were pushing their own employees so hard in pursuing their education that they hired from within, and so by the time the new grad orientation programs started up again this past January, there were no slots left after I waited it out.

I moved 1000 miles away to find a job in my hometown! Where there's one saturated market, broaden your horizons and you'll find a shortage.

Hang in there. It will happen! !

Chloe

:nurse:

RN-BSN, BA

I graduated in Dec 07 and I feared I would graduate without a job. Unfortunately half of my classmates didn't have any jobs or interviews when the pinning ceremony came around. :cry: It is fierce competition in boston right now. All grads are fighting to have a job in the city (i should know, i was one of them) I applied to ALL of the major teaching hospitals in Boston (I worked at one of these hospitals too), there was only one hospital that called me for an interview and it wasnt the one I worked at! Luckly for me it was for my dream job :redbeathe working in the PICU and NICU(that never happens to a new grad!!!!!!!) I worked hard to get that job. The interview lasted about 3 1/2 hours, once it was done I was left to trek out in the blizzard that dumped snow in boston almost instantaneously (no snow when i got to the interview) there was about a foot of snow when I got out to the street in my red high heels and no socks, note to self: never wear red high heels in flash snow storms, your feet may get chilly and you will find yourself checking your cap refill every 4 seconds :nono: but it was worth it cause now im a PICU nurse!!:D RN BSN

Wow!! Red high heels on an interview....and you got the job.....

Congratulations!!!

Specializes in pediatrics.

carrie 13:

did you work as a PCA/or nurses' aide while in school? could you pm me the name of the hospital you work at? i'm still having a hard time getting a hospital job.thanks!

When I graduated, late 1990's most of my classmates could not get jobs. Try working in a nursing home until you are able to find a better job. It will be better than not working. I know a lot of people who ended up not working as nurses because of the "nursing shortage". It is just not the case in New England.

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