how to follow up with possible job opportunity..

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Hi Im needing advice on what to do next...So I currently work in couplet care (I've been here two years and it's my only nursing experience) and I've been wanting to transfer to labor and delivery, however it is known that the manager does not hire nurses w/o l&d experience. Well one day I bumped into the manager and told her how interested I was and she asked a few questions and said she was open to hiring someone with my experience, she asked for my number and told me she'd call in a few days...It's now been two weeks since she said she'd call. Last week I got her office number and left a message, but did not hear back from her. I am worried she changed her mind about hiring me, but I assume if she did she would let me know... Im not sure if I should call her again this week, or if I should continue to wait for her to contact me?

Thanks in advance.

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Ok. Take a deep breath.

She didn't say she is going to hire you.

She said she would be open to it and took your number. A lot of factors have to go into that, including you having to go through interviews if there is actually an open position.

This may have been her actually open to considering you or it may have been the equivalent of a girl giving a number in a bar to a guy and then never answering because she never really wanted to give him her number to begin with but she didn't want to cause a scene. It may be she is on vacation. Or out sick. Or slammed from the holidays. Or not hiring right now. Or had a better qualified candidate turn up. Or talked to your manager and found out things that make her hesitate, which could be anything from something to do with you to the state of staffing in your current unit. Any number of things may be going on.

I would send her an email and if you do not hear from her, I would let it go for a while, then in a few months or next time you see an opening posted, follow up again.

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This is just me but if you work in the same building, I would just go to her office in person and follow up that way. When I was an RN, I wanted to transfer to another unit and bumped into the manager one random day. Something similar transpired to what you relayed above and when I didn't hear from her, I just went to her office. She wasn't there, so I asked the RNs on the unit when she was normally there.

Managers get busy and frankly, I understand that I was not in the forefront of her mind.

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