Cant get a job almost 1 year later

[arose26]

Heyy well its been a brutal year of searching for a new grad entry level nursing job. I must have sent hundreds of resumes gone on a handful of interviews and applied to hundreds of online positions. It is absolutely disgraceful how there are not enough people willing to train new grads. How in the world do these hospitals expect to have a team of nurses in the future if they are not looking to hire and train some now. All the nurses are older and have been working for many years and cannot retire because they need the money or are being laid off left to right and hospitals cant afford to train a new grad with no experience. How do i get experience if no one will give me a chance, take a risk and train me!! I live in south florida and its really sad how there are no Nursing Jobs. Sad to say its really been a hard year on me and not that i am giving up but i do need a job and have resorted to do some retail part time work to keep my head busy and my spirits up. At the same time, of course i am still searching, with the hopes of one day having a nursing job. This is more of a rant for me to get out my frustrations that i'm sure others feel the same. Are there other people that are waiting almost year out of graduation and still cant find work? I feel like most people struggle for a couple months then find their first job I just cant find anything ! Every facility and agency I spoke with is not hiring, not willing to train a RN without nursing experience 1-2 yrs or will throw you an interview just to throw you out of their office when they see you dont have any experience. Is this the world we live in where people dont give you a chance and believe in people?

[macgirl]

Barbara H. (first please change your name if that's your real name) https://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/about-that-avatar-900567.html

I hear what your saying, and let me put this out there. My first job was using a lot of travel nurses, I learned/was trained by a couple of them. They were so short they need to pay for experience. Basically they had a hard time keeping people and still do. I got my year and left. Point of fact everyone I worked with on my shift with exeception of 2 people out of 15 left within a month of each other. Most of us stayed till we had another job, several just called and said they wouldn't be back. the other shift had a similar issue.

So it may not be don't want to hire but a lack of people who can train, and job that can only affored so many newbies at once. Would you want to be a patient or have a family member on unit staffed by almost all new grads??? NO you need certian number of people to be trained.

[ceebeejay]

Macgirl, you are missing my point. I have worked as a travel nurse before myself, so I understand. However, something is wrong with the "system" when new grads get left behind only because it might be too expensive or inconvenient to train them while the hospital has no problem spending 100/hr between paying the travel agency and the nurse. This in my opinion is "disgraceful" at the best. A nation has to look out for their young people, they are the future and this is clearly not happening...

Yes this.

[krazieklutz03]

I graduated in June 2010. Failed my NCLEX the first time around so I ended up finally retesting in June 2011. Struggled to get a job until a year later in August 2012 at a home health agency. And just recently got a hospital job in Feb 2014. That was 3.5 years post school and finally in an acute setting. So take a not so desired position in the meantime until you finally get to where you want to be.

[Tracey0529]

Awesome advice KrazieKlutz, ( love that!) about taking a less desired nursing job vs the ones you really want. That first year is what it's all about it seems then after that, it sounds like more doors open. I'm new, going to take this advice, and like a prison inmate, just do my time, put my one year in somewhere, anywhere! Just to say, " I have one year experience as a nurse" and see where it takes me.

Wish me luck! I need it!

[whatsmyusername_RN]

Hi OP,

Are you willing to travel? If you are, how about hospitals in ND? I got offers from two hospitals there, St. Alexius and Sanford, both in Bismarck. Job market is booming there. I think you'll have an easier time of looking for a hospital job. If needed, you can use me as a referral. I'm a little new at St. A but i don't think that will be a huge problem. PM me if you're interested.