Interview to Job Offer?

Send a "Thank You" e-mail or card to the recruiter today. Often it takes a couple of weeks (and sometimes longer) for the employer to respond after an interview. They may be discussing your file with the hiring manager at the hospital or they may just be busy filling some other vacancies/positions. All of the feedback you've had from the recruiter so far is very favorable, so just send your note and follow up with a call in another week if you still have not heard anything.

I'm also a new nurse with no previous experience other than clinical....Well I interviewed for a job on this past Monday..The nursing director said she would call me by Friday to let me know if i got the job...I waited until friday afternoon (today)...no call... so I called her and told her I was following up on our interview so I could decide which direction I wanted to go (as far as other job interviews that I already had)..Then she told me she wouldn't know anything until Monday.......BUT at 4pm she called and offered me the job!! So I think the fact that I told her I was keeping my options open and had interviews elsewhere may have sped the process up a bit. So i don't know if the extra call helped or what...I'm some times pretty inpatient..so that's why I called so soon..

Call Monday...just don't be pushy or act desperate/inpatient...

I sent an thank you email soon after my interview, and I also sent a written thank you note in the mail to let them know I was highly interested. Thank your for the advice California RN and BethaJ! Congratulations on the job offer BethaJ! That's exciting!

YW!! Good luck to you msmoore!! The thank you note and email were good ideas to! I don't think a lot of people take the time to do those little things..Keep us posted as to how it turns out..

This happened to me just recently. I had a hospital nurse job interview on a Wednesday where I met with the unit nurse manager, discussed salary, etc. She offered me the job contingent on negative drug screen, criminal background check coming up clean, and successful reference check. A couple of days later I called human resources to follow up and was told my drug screen and criminal background check were fine, they were just having trouble reaching my references.

Well, I gave my references a head's up to be expecting a call and to please put in a good word for me. The next week, all my references told me they had been called by the hospital yet I still heard nothing. So I was worried but finally received the call a couple of days later officially offering me the job, that everything had checked out well and my new boss gave me my orientation date.

So from interview to official job offer call (after checking drug test, my background, and references), it took 9 days. I was on pins and needles the whole time.

I hope this new job goes well because I am very unhappy in my current one. I'm so happy to be leaving it.