Having trouble finding a JOB!!!!! HELP

irish6363 · Oct 16, 2008

I am sorry about your situation , it actually scares me a bit because I live here in Los Angeles and I take my NCLEX next month and I am already concerned too about job placement. Seems to be too many applicants and not enough jobs. Perhaps you need to re-do your resume and really follow up on all jobs you want and just keep calling until one of them just takes notice...be very persistent.

CherryERRN · Oct 16, 2008

I graduated in june and took the NCLEX in august. It took me about 2months to get a job and I have no experience. Everyone states that there is such a nursing shortage, but majority of my friends still havent found a job and we live in NYC!! GOOD LUCK

Sheila1214 · Oct 17, 2008

So what's everyone doing in the meantime that's unable to find a nursing job. Are you working at the local home depot or waiting for callbacks from hospitals? I'm just so disgusted right now with the managers that sit on our applications and the hospitals that have these outlandish demands, that I don't know what to do with myself! I think I'm going crazy already and I haven't even hit the floor yet! LOL:banghead:

Sheila1214 · Oct 31, 2008

Well thx for the support from u all and I still don't have a job! I tried to think of something else d want to do instead of nursing and I cat come up with anything. I am so lost right now and iv never had to deal w this type of situation. Collectors will are gonna start calling me any min. I even tried the home depot and they haven't evn called me. I actually thought for a min today, that if I was dead I wouldn't have to put up w this but bc of my religious beliefs I got that out of my head quick flash and in a hurry. I am just between a rock and a hard place and I don't know what to do!

joseash · Oct 31, 2008

Something good will come your way, you just have to be patient. I know that is easier said than done but it's true. I would think that right now is an "off" time for hiring new grads since it's a couple months past prime graduation time. December and May are big grad months so more hospitals may be looking to hire new grads to go with that time frame. How have you gone about the application process? Online applications only, talking to the HR office, actually speaking to Nurse Managers on the floor? Call and talk to people and find out when they might be looking to hire a brand new nurse. Go right to the source and don't be shy about it. Alternatively, have you checked into SNF or Nursing Home type facilities?

JAshley · Nov 10, 2008

I am in the same exact position, I took a job at a department store making just $7 an hour to try to get by. It's crazy...I thought there was a nursing shortage?!?

RNnightingale12 · Nov 10, 2008

Hello All, I am in the same situation. My savings account is dwindiling. I hope we can all find something soon. I have been very persistent with calling, emailing, applying online and following up. I'm pretty much borderline stalking them at ths point. I've spoken to two RN recruiters from NJ who tell me that they aren't hiring till January or March, try back then or they aren't hiring new grads at this time. There is no nursing shortage in NY/NJ area. With a few hospitals closing in NJ the market is flooded with exp. Why would hospitals spend their money on new grads when they have exp. RN's. They dont want to pay your salary and then your preceptors salary, when they can hire someone who doesn't need the intsense training. Also, the baby-boomer RN's that were suppose to retire can't retire because their retirements accounts have been cut in half because of the stock market. So, they are holding off from retiring. But, people don't see that once the economny gets better people are gonna leave the professon and then you'll be flooded with un-exp RN's and no one to train or not enough exp. RN's to train. Where's the happy medium? I hope we all find something soon.

Up2nogood RN, RN · Nov 11, 2008

I am in the same exact position, I took a job at a department store making just $7 an hour to try to get by. It's crazy...I thought there was a nursing shortage?!?

I'm sure there are LTC facilities in your area that might pay you a little more than $7/hr??? The nursing shortage is everywhere but in acute care.

catfish1 · Nov 12, 2008

I can feel your frustration. I also live in Fl. and can't find a job, even agency work. I got my R.N. in May '08 and instead of going to the hospital, I did home health and hated it .Way to boring for me. All I want to do is work weekends and still can't find a job. Really don't want to go back to SNF since I did enough of that kind of nursing as an LPN. Who said nursing is recession proof?

RNnightingale12 · Nov 14, 2008

7$ an hour is nothing for a RN in NY/NJ even in a LTC no offense susieQ72, the cost of living is ridiculous, thanks for your thoughts though susieQ72. RN salaries for new grads range from 65,000-78,000 depending on ASN, BSN and night diff and depending on the hospital. So I can feel JAshley's frustration, because we went to school and our instructors constatanly told us how easy it was to get a job and now it's not so easy.

I finally got something, Thank God! Be persistent followup and call if you can. Try to apply for everything (fulltime, parttime, per diem, night, day, whatever) even though they are asking for experience. That just increases your c hances of them just even giving your resume a look see.

By the way there is no nursing shortage in NY/NJ area. People are getting laid off which means they dont have insurance or a job to pay their medical bills that help pay our salaries. Nursing is not recession proof. I hear from friends from school that their are hiring freezes all over NYC as well. Good Luck everyone.

Up2nogood RN, RN · Nov 14, 2008

7$ an hour is nothing for a RN in NY/NJ even in a LTC no offense susieQ72, the cost of living is ridiculous, thanks for your thoughts though susieQ72. RN salaries for new grads range from 65,000-78,000 depending on ASN, BSN and night diff and depending on the hospital. So I can feel JAshley's frustration, because we went to school and our instructors constatanly told us how easy it was to get a job and now it's not so easy.
I finally got something, Thank God! Be persistent followup and call if you can. Try to apply for everything (fulltime, parttime, per diem, night, day, whatever) even though they are asking for experience. That just increases your c hances of them just even giving your resume a look see.
By the way there is no nursing shortage in NY/NJ area. People are getting laid off which means they dont have insurance or a job to pay their medical bills that help pay our salaries. Nursing is not recession proof. I hear from friends from school that their are hiring freezes all over NYC as well. Good Luck everyone.

I wasn't serious about the $7/hr for an RN . Our minimum wage is over $7/hr here. LTC facilities are starting to pay comparable to the hospitals to attract new grads. I was lucky enough to land a job in the hospital b/c I worked as a tech already there going thru school. I also work perdiem at a LTC and I've seen 5 new RN's have to take a job there b/c hospitals won't hire them w/out experience. I've never heard of nurses being laid off! It sounds like poor management to me :angryfire.