I have never had to work so hard for a job in my entire life?

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This is crazy!!! I go to school for four years to obtain skills and become a marketable professional and I can't get a job!! I mean what my heading says, I have never had this much difficulty getting a job in my entire life and I have worked at a lot of jobs because I move a lot. I am now stuck in a nursing home job that I hate most of the time. I thought that by going to school for a profession like nursing would make it easier to find a job. What is going on? When I was in nursing school I used to look online, in the paper, and at the nursing websites to get an idea of what was out there, and there were a ton of careers. Now there is nothing in the paper for RN's. There is a bunch of agency jobs online and the hospital websites have a ton of positions posted, but no one will call me and they blow me off when I call them. I am starting to think there is something wrong with me, with my resume, or with where I went to school that is causing employers to overlook me.

Specializes in Cardiac Nursing.

I am finally getting interviews. I have one tomorrow for NICU, one monday for a GN position, and yet another next friday for the Warrior Transition Unit at Ft. Knox. I REALLY want the NICU job.

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Specializes in tele and stroke.

how long did it take to hear back? when did you send resumes out? and lastly are you a GN?

Congrats by the way! I hope you get the NICU job too,,that would be such an amazing place to start.

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Specializes in Cardiac Nursing.
how long did it take to hear back? when did you send resumes out? and lastly are you a GN?

Congrats by the way! I hope you get the NICU job too,,that would be such an amazing place to start.

Yes, I'm a GN, graduated in May. I've been applying for jobs since Feb and haven't gotten very far. In all that time I'd only had 5 interviews and none panned out. Then this past week I get three phone calls for three interviews. The one yesterday was for NICU and I think it went well...I do hope I get it. The one monday I think is for telemetry, which is fine I'd just rather do NICU.

These three interviews I got within a week of applying, the NICU one within a day. After months of applying to places and not getting interviews, suddenly I get a bunch.

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I am in the same boat - I'm in NH, got licensed in Ma and VT too just to be on the safe side, because I'm on the border, and have applied to every single hospital within 1.5 hrs. I am getting NOwhere. It is very depressing, especially when all my friends from school have jobs. I am ready to give it up, but I desperately need a job. The hardest part is listening to people say, "but I thought there was a nursing shortage!"

Grrrrr.....

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Specializes in Cardiac Nursing.

I got the phone call this morning :yeah: The Manager had the Nurse Recruiter call me with the offer for an RN position,full-time, 3p-11p on NICU. I'm am SOOOOOOOOOO happy. After months of not even getting interviews, I apply, get the interview, and get the job in less than a week :yeah:. Orientation doesn't start until September 15th and I already know I will work day shift for awhile with a preceptor before moving to "my" shift with another preceptor. Unit orientation, I was told, doesn't have a exact time limit. I do know that the day shift part will be several weeks, I think, since they want me to see what does go on during the day (tests, procedures, c-section admits, etc). Probably would get to hang out with the delivery team, who knows...I'll ask.

I am so excited. I think I impressed them by knowing something of what they do (thanks to the NICU forum :bow:). And, I was willing to work 3p-11p. A lot of people don't like that shift, it's not my favorite but I'll work it. Its the 7a-3p shift that's going to kill me LOL, I am SO NOT a morning person :yawn:

Now to study, study, study for the NCLEX so I can pass the first time.

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