Ill try this here since Im getting no replies...

Music in My Heart · Oct 28, 2009

I'd wait two days after submitting and then contact the recruiter just to make sure that everything's in order.

I'd wait another two days and then contact the hiring manager directly, just to be sure that they've received the material.

BEDPAN76 · Oct 28, 2009

Nursing manager may be on vacation or out sick, so don't press the panic button yet! Wait at least another 3 or 4 days...Good luck to you and please let us know how things turn out! :nuke:

colleennurse, ASN, RN · Oct 28, 2009

Thanks guys! I am so impatient sometimes

I just want to hear back so bad! I think I have made up my mind that it is time to look for a new job, I have a real cushy job in community health, but am BORED out of my mind. I have been going back and forth on if I want to go back to having to work w/e, nights and all that.

MassED, BSN, RN · Oct 28, 2009

So I applied for a job about a week ago through an online job app at a local hospital. Heard the very next day and set up a phone interview. Had the phone interview with a nursing recruiter last Friday. Although the original job I was interested in is not looking for FT and requires some experience that I do not have yet, she told of another position that I did state I was interested in. She stated that she would forward my app and resume on to the nursing manager of that unit. How long do I give it before I call or anything? Obviously I have no patience right now Just curious what the average time is that I should give it. Its been a bit since job hunting. TIA!

did you find out the contact of who that manager forwarded your app/resume to? That might help. Contact that person, if you have their contact info. Leave a message, send an email, etc... just to touch base and let them know you're interested and would love to speak with them in person. Better to stick your neck out there and be the first to reach out, then to rely on some person you don't know to forward an application/resume on - you don't know if they ever do, until you get in touch with your contact.

The reason I write this is because I have had bad personal experiences with recruiters. They know where their needs are... and they're going to do the best for the facility for which they work. Keep that in mind. Best to get your contact from within the facility, not the recruiter with HR.

caliotter3 · Oct 28, 2009

I agree that after two days or so, you should call to check on the status. I found out one time that the person doing the hiring never saw my original application for employment. I only got hired because for some reason a few months later I applied again. I will bet that a lot of times the paperwork never reaches the hiring manager.

MassED, BSN, RN · Oct 28, 2009

exactly. Recruiters within HR will shop your app/resume around to the managers most in need. Don't be taken for a ride!

webmansx, ASN, RN · Oct 28, 2009

I agree with the above two posters. Some of thoes recruiters (actually all of them work on commission) the more nurses they are able to nag, the more they get. Sometimes they will give you false hope so that they get credit, or misrepresent your experience to the hiring mangers. It happend to me once. The hiring manger was told i had a year in rehab experience when I was a new grad, and she told me they knew I was a new grad and I will recieve trainning! Its all about money babe!

colleennurse, ASN, RN · Oct 28, 2009

Wow! Unfortunately I only have the contact info for HR. To even talk to someone in HR at the hospital you have to fill out the whole application and such. I will give it another 2 days or so then I will call. Like I said I originally posted for a job that by the description I thought might be a tough dept to get into (it was for a crisis intervention unit in the ED, it stated that they would take new grads, which I am not, but have not done psych nursing-but I do currently work with mentally ill people.) Anyway after she told me that there were no FT positions she mentioned that they do like to hire someone with psych experience and then went on to tell me that they had positions open in the inpatient psych unit. So I told her I would be interested in that too. Gosh now you all got me worried that she was pulling my leg on a lot of the stuff that she was telling me about the job! Although it all sounded pretty legit for a hospital job. Oh well! Ill keep my fingers crossed :)

MassED, BSN, RN · Oct 29, 2009

I think of recruiters like salesmen or women - they're just trying to get you to buy a car. Don't believe most of what they say - the managers will have the information you want, not them. Most recruiters are not nurses, or anything clinical, so they have no idea what we want/need. Good luck.

MassED, BSN, RN · Oct 29, 2009

Wow! Unfortunately I only have the contact info for HR. To even talk to someone in HR at the hospital you have to fill out the whole application and such. I will give it another 2 days or so then I will call. Like I said I originally posted for a job that by the description I thought might be a tough dept to get into (it was for a crisis intervention unit in the ED, it stated that they would take new grads, which I am not, but have not done psych nursing-but I do currently work with mentally ill people.) Anyway after she told me that there were no FT positions she mentioned that they do like to hire someone with psych experience and then went on to tell me that they had positions open in the inpatient psych unit. So I told her I would be interested in that too. Gosh now you all got me worried that she was pulling my leg on a lot of the stuff that she was telling me about the job! Although it all sounded pretty legit for a hospital job. Oh well! Ill keep my fingers crossed :)

watch out for that - sounds like that inpt psych unit has more urgent openings that they want you to fill!!!

sas8536 · Oct 29, 2009

I've had no luck with nurse "recruiters". My three interviews have come from me emailing or calling the nurse manager directly and expressing interest in the position the day or so after I applied. You have to figure that if they have time to interview only about 5 people out of the 50 or so people that have applied, you need to express interest to be one of those people. I usually call around the hospital or call the nurse recruiters for the name of the floor supervisor and get in that way. If I get a number, I leave a message offering to email recommendation letters. If I'm lucky enough to get an email address, I send a 'cover letter' type message with my references and recommendation letters attached. Good luck!

Stace