If your going to orientation do you have the job?

[lavette112]

Okay I passed the CNA course last friday gotten my certificate. Now I'm just waiting to take my state board exam. In the meanwhile I just gotten this position, and I am due to go to orientation. But get this have you experienced going to orientation, and they haven't checked your references. Is this normal procedure........my informant told me that they was checking up on me after I was told to come in for orientation.

[CoffeemateCNA]

If they are going to the trouble to pay for your orientation, then you probably did get the job. I don't think there would be much point in wasting resources to train a person who they weren't necessarily going to hire.

None of my employers have ever contacted any of my references (with the exception of calling my last job to ask if I really had been employed there, which they did 5 minutes after the interview).

[donna4909]

It depends. I was once called in for a 5 hour orientation/interview and didn't even get paid for it. Then they chose someone else for the position... even though they mentioned that my skills were flawless & I did a wonderful job. I think they just had poor hiring practices there.

In most places, if you have the orientation, you got the job.

[ctmed]

That is usually the way it works. If you are on the floor, a paycheck is on the way (except commission only gigs)

Although, I did do one orientation for a tourist trap restaurant off of Bourbon Street in New Orleans Pre-Katrina that I orientated just for one day. I ended up getting a better job offer that night, and told them I would not be working for them. They refused to pay me for the one day I orientated.

Decided to not raise a stink since it would have only been 20 bucks.

I guess it depends on the place, but it would seem to me that not paying your folks is not a good practice. If they cheap out on orientation, they are cheaping out elsewhere I bet you. No respect.