Is it really easier for male new grad nurses to land a job?

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Im a newgrad RN and just got my license but still looking for work. Most of my male classmates had found jobs already. So is it true that male new grads get a job faster than females?

@inchii & mp86, Thanks! I got the job and will start orientation this week. I live in SoCal btw.

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@inchii & mp86, Thanks! I got the job and will start orientation this week. I live in SoCal btw.

Congrates!!

I am from SoCal as well. Do you think now that it is easier for a men to get a job?

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Congrates!!

I am from SoCal as well. Do you think now that it is easier for a men to get a job?

A nursing instructor told me that before I graduated, most if not all of my male classmates are already working, the DON who interviewed me last week (believe it or not) implied it as well, so I think there's some truth to it. Heck, I only applied to this one place and they called me for an interview the next day.

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Actually, about a year ago I had a counseling appointment for a nursing program at a local college. The councillor told me that I have a very good chance of being accepted into the program. So I asked her why is that. The councillor told me because I am a male and local hospitals are looking for more male nurses. I asked her how does she know that. So she told me that the nursing director of the program surveys the HR's of the hospitals where their nursing students have their clinical and apparently they are really looking for more male nurses. This college does not have a point system or a lottery (they do have a minimum GPA requirement which is a 3.0 for the science courses), instead they are choosing their students according to what they HR's are most likely to hire.

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There are many layers to what's being discussed here. It's not just one factor or simply comparing full-time females to males.

Not always, but men tend to go where the money is..... And yes, this is probably because men are still expected to be the breadwinner and women are still expected to compromise their careers to tend to child responsibilities.

I have to agree with these statements. Just because men make more statistically (annually), does not mean they make more just because they are male. Most hospitals pay a set hourly wage based on position, especially the union ones. From my experience males tend to work more OT, take less time off due to their kids, and will likely never take maternity leave. All these things have an effect on annual salary.

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Specializes in Prior military RN/current ICU RN..

Well...by not getting a job maybe you answered your own question?

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Specializes in ICU.

My last DON, who has several advanced degrees, told me flat out that they will hire a male over a female. She said if 100 females apply for the same job as one male nurse does, the male is the one that gets hired. Also, every single one of our charge nurses are male. A brand new male RN just got a coordinator job, and he has one year experience. I guess it just depends on who is doing the hiring, and whether they prefer males over females. Oh, the male coordinator was hand-picked over very experienced females.

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Specializes in Pediatric/Adolescent, Med-Surg.
My last DON who has several advanced degrees, told me flat out that they will hire a male over a female. She said if 100 females apply for the same job as one male nurse does, the male is the one that gets hired. Also, every single one of our charge nurses are male. A brand new male RN just got a coordinator job, and he has one year experience. I guess it just depends on who is doing the hiring, and whether they prefer males over females. Oh, the male coordinator was hand-picked over very experienced females.[/quote']

That is discrimination. You expect me to believe that there isn't a qualified female nurse that could do charge

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My last DON, who has several advanced degrees, told me flat out that they will hire a male over a female. She said if 100 females apply for the same job as one male nurse does, the male is the one that gets hired. Also, every single one of our charge nurses are male. A brand new male RN just got a coordinator job, and he has one year experience. I guess it just depends on who is doing the hiring, and whether they prefer males over females. Oh, the male coordinator was hand-picked over very experienced females.

Those are discriminatory and most likely illegal hiring practices in your state. I'm not saying that those things don't go on in the real world every day, but that DON is an idiot for flat out admitting to engaging in those hiring practices to you as an employee.

He/she probably doesn't have enough experience to know to at least keep those discriminatory hiring practices under his/her hat and is asking for a lawsuit and demise of their career.

Oh well, that DON probably deserves it out of pure idiocy if nothing else.

Survival of the fittest in nursing.

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I think it is not right that managers favor a gender or a race over another. However, the fact is that companies can hire whoever they want. There is no law that says for every man you have to hire a woman or for ever black person you have to hire a caucasian person. In applewhitern case how do you wanna proof that the DON is discrimination against women? You can't, because if the DON believes that the man with one year experience is more qualified for the coordinator job than all the woman with more experience (or vise versa) , then that is the DON's opinion or observation.

I always think you shouldn't call somebody a discriminator without knowing the motive why he/she makes a decision like that. There are fields in nursing or other professions where hiring women is better than a men or vise versa, for whatever reasons they may be.

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Yes it is true that men will always get the job faster and with a higher rate of pay. All nurses know that the problem with nursing is the fact that the profession has always been dominated by women :roflmao:

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Specializes in ED, Telemetry,Hospice, ICU, Supervisor.
That is discrimination. You expect me to believe that there isn't a qualified female nurse that could do charge

The question that needs to be asked is if there, "are there qualified female nurses that actually want the management job"? The hospitals are filled with female RNs with 1 to 1 million years of experience. We have all hear the whole, " if I were management" speech.

Many female RNs do not want the extra work of wrangling other RNs in line.

OR Maybe, this male RN has more people skills and interviewed well,

OR Maybe he has less write ups and less overtime because he is so new

OR Maybe he was chosen because people genuinely respected him.

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