Hiring freeze lifted at certain hospitals?

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Specializes in LTC.

A couple of days ago I heard a rumor that HHC Facilities had lifted their hiring freeze and are beginning to call people in for orientation.

Has anyone heard the like? Any truth to it?

Thanks in advance.

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Haven't heard anything, heck this site is one of my heaviest resources! In any event this would be amazing! I called about a tech position earlier this month and they said they were on a hiring freeze. I guess the only way to find out would be to start calling.

Anway, just bumping the thread.

CARMZZ

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Specializes in ER, PACU.

My friend still states that HHC is still on a hiring freeze, but who knows. Maybe they are only hiring per diem now and not full time?? That I don't know.

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Specializes in LTC.

Thanks for the replies.

I'll subscribe this thread for updates.

I'll let you know if there are any developments.

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Specializes in LTC.

Any new info?

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

I don't have any information on the specific hospital in the OP, but this is what is happening at my hospital in another part of the country:

Positions were frozen etc. in the last few months, getting the staffing levels down about as low as the administration wants to get them. Now, as a few people leave and create vacancies, they are beginning to fill those vacancies -- NOT getting us back to the levels of staff we had in time past, but keeping the current level steady by hiring to replace those who leave.

In addition, we are aware that if we wait until summer to make committments to new grads, we may find that the "cream of the crop" is no longer available. So, we are starting to offer interviews to a few outstanding students scheduled to graduate in May based on our assumption that we will want to hire a few of them 5 months from now.

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I spoke with hr at one of the hhc hospitals that I interviewed with back in sept. when they only had per diem available and was told that they are still on freeze as well as most of if not all of the other hhc's as well. She also told me that those they did hire back in sept as per diem still havent been able to attain ft or pt positions. She said that she feels so sorry for all the new grads because she has hundreds of resumes just sitting on her desk with nowhere to put anyone. I was just reading an article in the advance and its all about how new grads are having no luck in attaining positions. The recruiter at lich said for the first time ever she has no positions for even their nursing schools graduates. Its a truly unfortunate situation especially when I know for fact many of these hospitals are still working short staffed.

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A couple of days ago I heard a rumor that HHC Facilities had lifted their hiring freeze and are beginning to call people in for orientation.

Has anyone heard the like? Any truth to it?

Thanks in advance.

Just visit the HHC website! If no jobs are posted, then it is a false news! Otherwise, it is true!

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Yeah...

They have lifted it!

Just type "HHC jobs listing" in your webbrower, it should lead you to a HHC employment listings. Click "to see all employment listings", you should see a list of hospitals and jobs listed in each of the HHC hospitals. I remember I checked it last week, it was not even there. Good luck! The hiring freeze is finally over!

....But there are few openings than 1 year ago...Well, at least, the hiring freeze is over!

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lpn2icu....

I dont know what exactly you checked last week that has changed this week but ive been consistently looking at the hhc website for months now and if you look at the jobs listed barely any are for rn's. I think woodhull has two listed and kings county and those have been the same listings for quite some time.

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I called HHC Nursing recruiting last Wednesday (2/18/09) and they told me they were indeed on a hiring freeze, and for everyone (I guess they're getting a lot of calls) to be patient. She said they're still forwarding resumes to hospitals, but that they're not hiring at the moment.

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lpn2icu....

I dont know what exactly you checked last week that has changed this week but ive been consistently looking at the hhc website for months now and if you look at the jobs listed barely any are for rn's. I think woodhull has two listed and kings county and those have been the same listings for quite some time.

Did you check it carefully?

The one in King County is relatively new! As late as February of this month...

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