What to do while waiting for replies

[enlu]

Would you consider other jobs while waiting for replies from hospitals? It takes too long to be appointed. I don't think I can be bum for that long. If yes, what jobs do you suggest?

BTW, tips when applying for volunteer/staff nurse. Which hospital, about backers and letters of recommendation, when to start applying and etcetera. Any advice or sharing of experience would be much appreciated! Thaaaaaaaaaanks for sharing.

[jenna18]

if you have some money to spare, why don't you get trainings and seminars, i guess you would have finished the essentials BLS and IVT, so why dont you try ACLS or hemodialysis. OR maybe study and take the IELTS or NCLEX. But if you want a job, you can try call centers or better yet, online teaching jobs. Just go to Jobstreet.com, in the jobseeker page, choose Education, NCR,a nd you'll find a lot of companies, most of them in Ortigas, looking for online English tutors. you will teach most probably Korean kids or adults, engage them in a conversation, while you correct their mistakes. work hours is from 2pm to 10pm or they even have part time. They pay well, these are our only alternatives, you will even enjoy doing it, but remember that its only temporary.

If you really want clinical experience, you SHOULD have a backer, someone powerful in the inside, to get you in, even as a volunteer. If you don't have a backer, more or less your resume is bound for the circle office- the garbage can. You should think about the reality that there are half a million of us, looking a place in hospitals, and there are only more or less 50 hospitals around MM. And even if you finish the whole 3 or 6 mos volunteer program, and give all your efforts, you won't be hired, it will always be our fellow nurses who have backers to get the job first. that's tragic, and very painful, actually. so if i were you, find a backer inside a hospital, stay in that hospital, because i know you know how hard it is to find another hospital. I'm saying all this because I experienced all of it.