Legacy Health Residency, Portland, OR

lilredrn · Jan 13, 2011

I called HR, She said that all the managers have not made their selections yet and we should hear by the first part of next week. Don't dispair! There is still hope!

:up: You rock. I called & left a message and they never called back. They must be getting swamped with calls.

islandteam2003 · Jan 14, 2011

Well, I still have hope then...until I hear otherwise! Patience certainly is a virtue I struggle with. Good luck all! Maybe some of us will eventually meet!

crossingfingers10 · Jan 14, 2011

I called HR, She said that all the managers have not made their selections yet and we should hear by the first part of next week. Don't dispair! There is still hope!

Thank you so much for posting this info :)! I hope we all get great news by middle of next week!

islandteam2003 · Jan 17, 2011

Waiting...patiently...sort of....ok, maybe not so patiently,,,for the phone to R-I-N-G!!! :)

ORRocksRN · Jan 18, 2011

I don't blame you. When we started this journey, we were told by our clinical instructor who also worked as an acute care oncology nurse that all we would need would be a "warm body & an RN" and that we would be getting sign on bonuses to work wherever we wanted Now here we all are wondering if we will ever be able to find a job period.
I just didn't want you to turn your phone off and crawl under the covers just yet :redbeathe

Lilredrn-

i'm sorry to say that your clinical instructor lied to you. Not on purpose probably, but she has no idea what the current situation is like and how would she? her focus now is on educating and keeping students in the school so that she has a job...she hasn;t been out looking for a job as a new grad recently. Most nurses who graduated even 3-4 years ago and beyond don;t have a clue about the current new grad job shortage because that wasn't their experience. almost everyone, nurses and others, I talk to are STILL in the dark about how hard it is for us to get hired. we need to work to change that perception.

ORRocksRN · Jan 18, 2011

Legacy requires patience in lots of ways. Id recommend you continue looking for other positions while you wait, and get your ACLS, PALs and any other cert that you can. Join a nursing organization in your specialty. Stress those in your interview. Whatever money you can show you are saving the hospital will only work in your favor.

interview questions just depend on the unit, be ready to answer the standard ones with unique and honest answers. Tell them why Legacy is special to you, do some research. If you have plans to leave town, be ready to change them. If you get an offer, you will be too busy with appts and paperwork to go anywhere.

there will be another cohort in July, so don't dispair if you dont get a call this time. Legacy is laying lots of people off right now, mostly office staff, so any hiring they do is a huge sacrifice. Be entirely grateful for the opportunity to meet key people and show it. even if you dont get an offer this time, they will remember you for future positions if you make a good impression.

above all, dont put all your eggs in this basket, and definately look outside of Portland, there are jobs out there.... Good luck everyone!

lilredrn · Jan 18, 2011

Lilredrn-
i'm sorry to say that your clinical instructor lied to you. Not on purpose probably, but she has no idea what the current situation is like and how would she? her focus now is on educating and keeping students in the school so that she has a job...she hasn;t been out looking for a job as a new grad recently. Most nurses who graduated even 3-4 years ago and beyond don;t have a clue about the current new grad job shortage because that wasn't their experience. almost everyone, nurses and others, I talk to are STILL in the dark about how hard it is for us to get hired. we need to work to change that perception.

Thanks, Rocks. I don't think it was an outright lie. They truly anticipated a nursing shortage with all the baby boomers reaching retirement age. Who could have anticipated this economy and the loss of 401Ks and the losses of their spouses jobs? They still need us, they just don't know it yet :nurse:

I still haven't heard anything, nor have my classmates that also completed their senior practicums with Legacy. I am honestly quite disappointed. I networked my hiney off and made some awesome connections. I rocked the first interview too (so I was told). It is just a terrible market! We are just not in demand.

I am applying all over. Rejection after rejection. I'm not going to lose faith though. I will be going for my BSN in the Fall. Good luck everyone & keep us posted on your interviews.

ORRocksRN · Jan 18, 2011

so how can you use those connections? Can they make some calls for you, write letters, notes, emails, texts? Make some recommendations to key people? can you get in touch with them and charm them into doing whatever they can for you? how did you impress them? remind them of those things and ask them to make some phone calls directly to the manager of the unit where you want to work. good luck.

MsoccerRN · Jan 18, 2011

I'm stuck because I have had a family trip planned and paid for over a year starting this Wednesday morning and going until Sunday night! I was hoping that I would have heard by now, but my worst fear is that they will call when I'm out of state! I wish I could magically know either way, so I can relax...but using this past summer as an example, I was giving a one day notice before my second interview. Wish I could cancel my trip, but that will disappoint quite a bunch of people and cost me a lot of money (which would be worth it for a second interview...), but I can't do it just on an assumption! My nerves are on hyperdrive! Anyone get a call for ER yet?

ORRocksRN · Jan 18, 2011

a job means many more trips to come in the future...right?

but likely, if you get called for an interview it will be a week before you go in. i think you are pretty safe. just make sure they have your cell phone number.

have a great trip

islandteam2003 · Jan 18, 2011

Yea, and I leave for a mission trip from Seattle to Bolivia on the 27th. Cutting things close there too. Stressful, but I had to let go and let God. I CAN'T control this. Painful realization, but it still helped to know I am not in control, but I have done everything I can for this position. Who knows...maybe we will hear today. Yesterday was a holiday in most of the work places. Feeling your pain Msoccer and thanksORRocks (you are always an uplift and so supportive!)

JulieB71 · Jan 18, 2011

My good friend got her second interview for med/surg this last week. Her interview went really well but the reality is that they were only hiring one person for his hospital. He said that last time they took too many people and having the new hires plus their preceptors on the floor was just way too congested and so they decided to cut numbers due to that also. He was going on vacation this week so she won't hear till next week. I realized my chances were small, 5% to be exact, but I do wish they would've sent out a final e-mail so we would know when the departments we applied for were filled.