So, I graduated in the beginning of May and sit for my boards on Wednesday! I used LinkedIn to contact the director of HR of my DREAM hospital and let her know that I applied for their residency program. I received a reply that she had forwarded my information to the recruiter in charge of the residency program and received an email from that recruiter a couple days later thanking me for my interest and notifying me that her specialist would be contacting me with the next steps. The next day, I received a call and scheduled my interview for Tuesday! She also gave me an online reference survey to send out to 5 references.
I want to get into this new grad residency at this hospital more than anything because I want to work at this hospital more than any other.
My question is, do I actually stand a chance now that I got an interview? It's really hard to get an interview here unless you know someone and many of my friends (as well as myself) have gotten rejections a couple days after submitting applications.
But now that I have the interview, I'm paranoid that it's just a formality because I reached out to them and they feel they had to offer me an interview. I'm worried that I stand no chance of actually getting an offer and they're just going through the motions. Is this a possibility? Or do I actually stand a chance if I have a good interview?
Also, I was going to send a thank you card after the interview to the recruiter, her specialist, and the interviewer. Is this appropriate?
Sorry for the long post. Between the NCLEX and the job hunt, I'm kind of a nervous wreck!
I would absolutely suggest sending a thank you card after the interview. No matter how well or how bad the interview may go. It is always appropriate to send a thank you, as it shows you are considerate of their time and effort for considering you and giving you a chance.
I've got another question (now that I've passed the NCLEX and am finished with school, I've got a lot of free time to over analyze and think lol)
My interview was last Tuesday, she said I would hear by September 1st. I sent my thank you notes and then on Friday I sent an email to interviewer asking if it was okay to keep in contact and ask any questions that pop up between now and then. She responded within 2 hours saying that I absolutely could and that she's going on maternity leave during the summer but will answer to the best of her ability. I also emailed the recruiter some questions and she ended up forwarding my questions to the interviewer who wrote back answering each and every question within the hour.
Would you say it's good news that she wrote me back not just once but twice in one day (and took effort to respond to my questions)? I'm not sure if it means anything but the hopeful part of me thinks that if she wasn't interested then she could have just ignored me?
She is the one who makes the decision. Which she said she'd pick her 35 candidates or so and then send the list to the recruiter to do screening and background checks (don't they need my social security number first?) If she's going on maternity leave sometime in July, wouldn't she have to pick before then? And not in August? I would assume she wouldn't work while on maternity leave but I'm not sure. Im just hopeful to find out well before August since this waiting is torture already since I want it so bad
Also, my main reason for wanting to keep in contact is so that she won't forget about me. I was planning on asking 2 or 3 questions per email to not completely waste her time and to just check in. How often should I do this? I don't want to annoy her but I also want for her to remember me and hopefully think of me fondly that I'm so interested and persistent. Should I email every 3 weeks? 4 weeks? What do you think?
jeferobben
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I would absolutely suggest sending a thank you card after the interview. No matter how well or how bad the interview may go. It is always appropriate to send a thank you, as it shows you are considerate of their time and effort for considering you and giving you a chance.