I have been out as an RN for 8 years (raising kids); have 4 years of tele in a major heart transplant center and 3 years of home care experience; have BSN.
I have taken numerous CEUs in tele and beyond over the past month and will be doing refresher course sans the clinical part in a local CC in June. So far, I have applied to many places that ARE hiring med-surg and tele nurses with minimal exp. requirements and still haven't heard a peep!
I am close to being depressed! What am I doing wrong? What else do recruiters need? I have a great cover letter and a resume and address recruiters by their name.... I mark availability for any shift full-time part time, PD.
Will it help to just walk up to managers and hand them in my CV and a letter? Or, is it too pushy and might diminish my chances even further?
Should I volunteer at a place of my choice? Would it help?
I am wiritng with the update on the status of my job hunting situation.
Today I have walked into one place, spoke to manager who happened to be totally cool with my bold action! She scheduled a formal interview date for next week.
Exciting? Wait! I am not finished yet! 2 hours later I get a call from another place that was my first choice originally (a major medical center with a great reputation) for an interiview for a critical care area (I applied to this one about 1 month ago, go figure!). And while on the phone trying to set a date for the interview with them, a third place called ! I heard absolutely nothing in weeks and months, and then everything happens within just 3 hours! I am not religious at all, but I can understand how something like this can be attributed to some higher power!
Lesson here: while searching for work and talking to recruiters and managers I found that there are major discrepancies between what recruiters and what managers want: recruiter may completely ignore your resume while a specific manager may get excited (in a + way)! You never know!
So, thank you for the wise advise to just go up to managers and get the job this way! It turned out to be indispensable!
Grnrn
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Hi everyone!
thank you all for your support again!
I am wiritng with the update on the status of my job hunting situation.
Today I have walked into one place, spoke to manager who happened to be totally cool with my bold action! She scheduled a formal interview date for next week.
Exciting? Wait! I am not finished yet! 2 hours later I get a call from another place that was my first choice originally (a major medical center with a great reputation) for an interiview for a critical care area (I applied to this one about 1 month ago, go figure!). And while on the phone trying to set a date for the interview with them, a third place called ! I heard absolutely nothing in weeks and months, and then everything happens within just 3 hours! I am not religious at all, but I can understand how something like this can be attributed to some higher power!
Lesson here: while searching for work and talking to recruiters and managers I found that there are major discrepancies between what recruiters and what managers want: recruiter may completely ignore your resume while a specific manager may get excited (in a + way)! You never know!
So, thank you for the wise advise to just go up to managers and get the job this way! It turned out to be indispensable!
GrnRn