AHS Jobs.....Poof! Gone

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Good morning everyone!

Just wondering if you've noticed the activity on the AHS job board the last few days. Today, there are approximately 200 nursing positions active on the site. Two weeks prior to the budget, there were over 1000 positions, and then shrinking daily. Yet we are all working short.

Yes, I am aware the AHS Board is freezing positions and preparing to decrease the workforce through various means. However, I did not expect this many positions to disappear almost overnight.

Hopefully, someone will come to their senses. It's either feast or famine and to what end?

History repeats itself. Sigh. I'm shaking my head, as in, "Here we go again."

Perhaps the grand plan is to work everyone to the bone so we either quit or expire right on the job. This would save AHS millions.

Various posters inquire about moving to Alberta. Well unless you have a firm offer, do not move yet. Even with a job offer, beware....seniority rules. Last hired is first out when layoffs and restructuring occurs. AB will prosper again, but for the moment prospects are grim as far as the job market is concerned.

Do your research carefully and thoroughly before making important life changing decisions

Well, I managed to get the casual Health Care Aide position for the summer, and have an interview for a UNE position later this week. Both are rural; the Health Care Aide position is an hour away from me, the UNE position is 2 hours away from me. I'm hoping that having a rural position will be a bit more secure than a position in Edmonton right now.

Specializes in geriatrics.

Rural locations are always in need of staff. It's the cities that are always scaled back because they can afford to shift staff around and lay people off. Rural locations are already operating with skeleton crews. You should be fine.

Specializes in Med-Surg.

I don't know how open to this you guys are, but when I was last in Quebec, working agency, there was ALWAYS work. And that was only with mother-baby and med-surg experience. I think if any of you can muster up a bit of french skills, there should still be plenty of work over there!

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