Getting work in Canada?

Hi everybody,

I'm new to this forum and I would like to ask people with more knowlidge about Canadian nursing how to best look for a job in Ontario.

I have 5 years experience working as a RN in Scandinavia, at specialized in-patient unit for renal patients as well as other acute medical patients. I consider myself as a nurse with quite broad experience with medical patients on the whole, having also some experience with surgical patients. I think my resume is very good what comes to experience, I also have very good recommendations from my previous employers.

In Canada I am going to take my RN exam in a couple of weeks (feb.2008) and after hopefully passing that, looking seriously work in hospital.

I already have tried to find work in hospitals as a temporary RN, but never heard back from any of the hospitals I mailed my resume. At that time I had no workpermit either because I had no job offer...

However now Im getting my workpermit trough permanent residency and that will be no problem anymore.

My darling husband thinks I was not looking for work eager enough and because of that didnt get any response from the hospitals, I however think the reason was that I had not yet my RN exam and the workpermit... and that was the main cause for my attempts being fruitless. I really hope I was right and getting workpermit and registration done will make a change.

If I should do even something more, please let me know! I dont want to be just waiting for job another half a year!

Thanks!

Anna