New Grad & No one will hire me

U.S.A. New Jersey

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I have never applied to so many jobs and not receive a response. Follow up letters and phone calls have been made. references used. what else can I do? I need to start working. Any advice?

I am truly beginning to believe, I just wasted away 30000 dollars and 5 yrs of school for nothing. I was so excited to become a nurse, something I have always wanted and finally had a chance at it. I thought nursing was different than your average positions. nurses are suppose to help each other, teach each other, and grow together, what happened?

NJ nursing shortage? hospitals advertise they will take new nurses on their career sites, but they lie. All they want are experienced nurses. well guess what, when you fall short of staff in the few years the industry is predicting, all their will be are NEW NURSES! TRAIN THE NEW GRADS NOW AND START PREPARING FOR THE RETIREMENT LOSS NOW! I don't understand.

Thanks for letting me vent. :)

Specializes in ER/EHR Trainer.
Yes, I'm working on SBHCS lol. :)

Good Luck:wink2:

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Specializes in pediatrics, oncology.

Thanks!

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SBHCS, best of luck. I tried a few of their hospitals.....even had references. Unfortunately the nurse recruiter was not so pleasant and had other things to do than to recruit nurses, for Monmouth Med anyway.

Try Kimball, a lot of my classmates were hired there. i would be very persistent, follow up with letters, calls, etc.

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Specializes in ER/EHR Trainer.
SBHCS, best of luck. I tried a few of their hospitals.....even had references. Unfortunately the nurse recruiter was not so pleasant and had other things to do than to recruit nurses, for Monmouth Med anyway.

Try Kimball, a lot of my classmates were hired there. i would be very persistent, follow up with letters, calls, etc.

Which nurse recruiter? If it is one that I know, I'll be happy to tell her that all of NJ's new grads are seeing this post....and feeling discouraged. Are all recruits coming through Livingston? If not, what is the process for the other locations?

Just curious,

Maisy

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My references have already spoken to the recruiter from what i've been told. It wasn't just the recruiter. Not one person returned a call or followed thru. I only did what I was advised to do. i found it not only disappointing but very unprofessional. It is their loss.

For those still looking, as I said earlier, Kimball seems to be the only one

taking new grads now.

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Which nurse recruiter? If it is one that I know, I'll be happy to tell her that all of NJ's new grads are seeing this post....and feeling discouraged. Are all recruits coming through Livingston? If not, what is the process for the other locations?

Just curious,

Maisy

and......i'm happy to have everyone see the post. Shame on the hospital for treating people the way they did.

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Specializes in Internal Medicine.
:banghead: it is very frustrating for me too and i think for all the other new grads out there. hospitals want experienced RNs, well how can we, the new grads, get any experience if they don't even hire us? and if they do they have very limited amount. by the time you see any openings online, so much applicants have already applied for it. i currently work at a clinic (internal med), i started as an LVN, been there about 2 years now. i like my job and everything, but i feel like it is not challenging enough and i want to do more.i want to use the skills that i learned, i just don't want them to go to waste, we worked so hard for them after all! now that i realized how hard it is for a new grad to find a job, so for now i feel like being an RN is not as exciting as i thought it would be :( *and they said nurses are in such high demand*
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I just got hired, I passed my boards in the beginning of July. It was a frustrating process, I apply everywhere within 50miles and then followed up with many phone calls.

I was getting depressed because I wasn't getting anywhere and then I had three interviews all in the same week and all three offerred me postions. I was able to get day shift like I wanted and an oncology/med surg floor.

Don't give up and keep calling the recruiters after you apply.

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Specializes in PCU, Tele, ICU.

If you don't mind, Hellofacook, where are you working? Because its really hard trying to get a new grad rn position in NJ right now!!!

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Specializes in Ortho and Tele med/surg.

I haven't graduated yet, but I just wanted to say to all the new grads: Hang in there!

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Yandis:

I live just outside Atlantic City. I got a job at Shore Memorial, but I was offered a job at Virtua and Saint Barnabas(they may have a hospital near you).

I had to be on top of things, applied for any postion on line that would let me and made many phone calls.

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Specializes in Internal Medicine.

today was the very first day of my official job hunting... i started my day at 8:30 am, i had a list of facilities (of which all were ltcs/snfs) to go to so... i asked for an application for each one and filled it out right on the spot and then turned it in right away...for my very first one, i was lucky 'cuz the don was there and she interviewed me...so the interview ended and i was told that she will just call me by this week and let me know...so i went on to the next one on the list...i went to total of 5 facilities... i finished at about 1 pm (some of the applications were really long...my hand kind of hurts from writing...)anyway, a couple of hours after i got home, i got a call...it was from the first snf i went to...they want me to come in for an orientation already! wow! (*i was thinking, they could've just hired me right on the spot...hehe!) well, i'm kind of excited about this job...this is something new for me...i worked in an assisted living but i never worked in a snf/rehab before... so... yeah ...but on the other hand...i would really really want to work in a hospital setting!...but like what i said before...a hospital job is very hard to get if you're a new grad... :cry:well, that is based on my personal experience, it may be different from others... so...now am thinking if i want to work in a hospital later on...would they count snf/ltc/rehab as rn experience? :confused: i know some hospitals want acute care experience and then again how can we new grads get acute care experience if they don't hire us?!? :banghead:urghh!!! so should i take this job?? thank you all for your time :heartbeat

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