Wondering why you can't get hired or promoted: Resume + Interview hints!

I've never heard of a hospital wanting to know your GPA.

Mine wanted to know. That affected whether i got the job or not.

Do NOT pad your resume or try to make school experiences look like employee experiences. I've seen a lot of that -- and it makes a very bad impression. It makes me think the applicant is sneaky, someone I can't completely trust. No one wants to hire a person they can't trust.

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Student here, I Just applied for a nurse extern position.

On the application, I put down my hospital school clinical experience under employment history/experience, job description, and what my qualifications are. I put down the name of the hospital I've had clinicals in as the name of the employer. It is not my intention to be sneaky, it is just that I dont have any previous work experience. I have not worked anywhere before, yes you better believe it.

My question is, I am doing another application for another hospital; Should I take down the name of the hospitals I had clinicals in, and my clinical job duties out of the Employment experience/history? If so, where should I put student work experience?

I'm still a student, who wants to do student nurse externship, and it is very difficult to write a resume without any prior paid job experience.

On the application I am trying to apply for, (it is an online application) I have the oppurtunity to skip the resume, and instead, write down what am I "qualified" for the job as a nurse extern. Should I just put down my school clinical experience under qualification and leave employment history completely blank? Or Should I just make a resume base on school experience, the hospital I had clinicals in, and my primary duties, completely leaving the employment history blank.

Under employment history, it says this:

You currently have no employment history listed in our system. You MUST complete at least one employment record in order to apply for jobs.

I need one employment history, but I dont have any. It really annoys me, because as you said, I shouldn't try to put down my hospital clinical school experience. But I cant do anything else with it.

If anyone here is willing to answer my questions I would really appreciate it.

Student here, I Just applied for a nurse extern position.

On the application, I put down my hospital school clinical experience under employment history/experience, job description, and what my qualifications are. I put down the name of the hospital I've had clinicals in as the name of the employer. It is not my intention to be sneaky, it is just that I dont have any previous work experience. I have not worked anywhere before, yes you better believe it.

here is willing to answer my questions I would really appreciate it.

We know that if you graduated in '05 and your stated experience was in 03 and 04 it was student clinicals.

Some of the recent grads from my school said the same thing when they were interviewing at a job fair. I am assuming they have x number of spots and their GPA will be one of the determining factors too. Makes perfect sense to me although I may not totally agree with it.

This is not true. I was hired outside of school as a student nurse at a level one trauma facility in Neurotrauma. I worked there, earning my way through nursing school caring for patients with an RN signing off on my work.