Any advice on jobs in Atlanta?

Neese80!, LPN · Dec 11, 2012

It has been almost 10 months since Ive taken and passed my boards. There are no jobs here in Seattle and recently Ive endorsed my license to GA. Ive applied to many positions there and still nothing....does anyone know of any hospitals in Atlanta that is hiring new grads?! HELP!

Have you tried Wellstar new grad residency program? Emory has one as well. I just saw them on Indeed.com last week. Good luck.

T-Bird78 · Dec 11, 2012

It's beyond tough down here for established and new grad nurses. Get a login and profile with Wellstar, Emory, Kaiser, Piedmont, and Grady and check their job boards daily. Some have new grad positions open and some don't. Patience is key.

snobanda · Dec 11, 2012

You better waltz on down to Grady. It's an inner city, level one trauma center. It's definitely not for the faint of heart or the weak, but their residency program start anew every month. But it would definitely be a hard place to start working if you're a new grad, in a new city. Good luck! But also try well star and Emory.

Marshall1 · Dec 12, 2012

I personally would love to work at Grady if I lived closer..you can try Gwinnett Medical and Northeast Georgia Medical Center - they hire new grads. One thing that maybe holding you up is you don't actually live in Ga. as yet -

also http://www.usajobs.gov for Federal jobs - they hire new grads and the VA in Augusta is hiring.

Amnesty · Dec 17, 2012

I personally would love to work at Grady if I lived closer..you can try Gwinnett Medical and Northeast Georgia Medical Center - they hire new grads. One thing that maybe holding you up is you don't actually live in Ga. as yet -
also www.usajobs.gov for Federal jobs - they hire new grads and the VA in Augusta is hiring.

The thing about not living in Georgia is key. Why should anybody go out of their way to hire someone from out of town when there are so many craptons of people in town who are applying? The trick is to make sure you don't obviously stand out as an out-of-towner. When I applied for jobs in other states, I'd get somebody local to let me use his/her address on my resume, and I'd sign up for a local phone number via Google Voice (they'll give you one for free and automatically forward all calls that number receives to your actual number). Nobody actually sends mail to the address on your resume, at least not in my experience, so it's never been a problem. When they call for an interview, just explain that you're out of town for the holidays and ask if they'd be willing to do a phone interview. It may not actually work, but it's a better idea than nothing, and it netted me interviews a couple of times.

Good luck with your job hunt!

GoosbyLPN · Dec 18, 2012

Thats how I usually do use someone else address but the phone should ok cause its so many people from other states have out of state number...good luck

my moms been looking for 3 months with 20 yrs exp for lpn and still havent found anything