Let me be clear: THERE IS NO NURSING SHORTAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am so ****** OFF right now. There are literally thousands of new grads, like myself, who are struggling ALL OVER THE U.S. who can't find jobs for the life of them. This is absurd!!
I have applied to over 30 jobs and cannot get a single call back. I have spent numerous nights sobbing in my bed because I can't afford my loans starting in December and might have to consider filing bankruptcy.
And now, to hear that a Florida congressman wants to "import" foreign nursing to "combat the current nursing shortage" is more than I can take (http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/111_HR_2536.html). Are you serious? Pleas tell me you're JOKING!!!
Why did I foolishly even consider becoming a nurse in the first place (besides it being my childhood dream)? What a waste of time.
You wouldn't know there's a shortage in my area, if there is. We have been advertising a part-time, flexible hour position for an RN for at least a few months. The only fixed day is Fridays. It's less pay than some shift-work jobs because it's business hours and office-based for the most part. Seems like many people say there are "no jobs" when really, they do not want the jobs on offer. We have interviewed multiple people - some wanted different hours to work around them, some said they wouldn't do certain job requirements, one cancelled the interview a few hours before then wanted to be reinterviewed the week after etc etc...
Part-time, sporadic hours don't really count in my book.
I think when most people say they need a job, they mean that they need a full-time job.
Now personally, I'll take anything I can get... including a CNA or unit clerk position... just to get my foot in the door but realistically, I can't afford to be a part-time worker. Underemployment is better than unemployment but it still doesn't make ends meet.
It sounds to me like your employer is not offering enough for the position that they're looking to fill.
Part-time, sporadic hours don't really count in my book.
I think when most people say they need a job, they mean that they need a full-time job.
Now personally, I'll take anything I can get... including a CNA or unit clerk position... just to get my foot in the door but realistically, I can't afford to be a part-time worker. Underemployment is better than unemployment but it still doesn't make ends meet.
It sounds to me like your employer is not offering enough for the position that they're looking to fill.
I have received two calls to work from one employer in two months since I applied with them. Two sporadic shifts to work because someone else didn't feel like working does not justify me getting in my car and driving to the job. The same for another employer who offered me two four hour shifts in nine months. I don't even call this underemployment. And I'm supposed to list these "employers" on my resume? Why?
You wouldn't know there's a shortage in my area, if there is. We have been advertising a part-time, flexible hour position for an RN for at least a few months. The only fixed day is Fridays. It's less pay than some shift-work jobs because it's business hours and office-based for the most part. Seems like many people say there are "no jobs" when really, they do not want the jobs on offer. We have interviewed multiple people - some wanted different hours to work around them, some said they wouldn't do certain job requirements, one cancelled the interview a few hours before then wanted to be reinterviewed the week after etc etc...
Are the hours strange? I had an informal interview with an administrator who said the hours would be 10:30 to 6:30pm and the hours would not exceed twenty per week and it sounded like they couldn't even give you a set schedule. This would make it very difficult to get another part-time job somewhere else, as well as make it difficult to go back to school for my RN.
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I completely agree!!!!
I had to check the username to make sure that this wasn't me! I feel the same way! I am getting so frustrated :banghead:with this job search. I spent 4 years in college and for what?! I never thought while I was in nursing school that I would graduate and be jobless! This is ridiculous. I've filled out over 30 applications as well, and for what?? I feel like they are all getting lost in cyberspace:typing & NO ONE is looking at mine nor are they looking at my resume or CV that I spent so much time working on!!! I mean, if I read one more description today that says "Required: 1 - 2 yrs experience" I'm just going to scream~~!!!
How am I supposed to get experience if no one will hire me??? I just don't understand~!!
Thanks for posting this! You've made my day!! Everyone needs to vent!
I definitely agree!!! I'm sick of this crap!!! Application after application job post after job post. I'm starting to think I want to work for Human Resource so I can hire myself!!!!Uggh :banghead
I had to check the username to make sure that this wasn't me! I feel the same way! I am getting so frustrated :banghead:with this job search. I spent 4 years in college and for what?! I never thought while I was in nursing school that I would graduate and be jobless! This is ridiculous. I've filled out over 30 applications as well, and for what?? I feel like they are all getting lost in cyberspace:typing & NO ONE is looking at mine nor are they looking at my resume or CV that I spent so much time working on!!! I mean, if I read one more description today that says "Required: 1 - 2 yrs experience" I'm just going to scream~~!!!
How am I supposed to get experience if no one will hire me??? I just don't understand~!!
Thanks for posting this! You've made my day!! Everyone needs to vent!
You know what else makes me crazy? All of the online job application bots and yet every nurse you meet says, its all about who you know and the nurse managers will hire someone they have met before. I have never seen a job market so based on networking before and this is not my first career!
Or, the advice: You need a job as a tech (while in nursing school). Every nursing student in this freakin' STATE has applied to every tech job available. Forget it. They want a tech, not a nursing student who graduates in six months!
I have one friend who applied to 40 tech jobs per month since January. This past month, he finally pestered the nurse manager at the ER he did a practicum enough times that she actually called him and said something to the effect of "I finally have a position open, its in the PEDS ER, nights/weekends. Do you want it, yes or no. Otherwise, I am hanging up the phone and offering it to the next student on the list."
OUCH. Gee whiz. All that hard work and I think we were all thinking at the end of it, it will all be bright smiles and job offers. I remember going to the career fair a year and change ago and noticing how much attention the seniors were getting from the recruiters. I couldn't wait to be in those shoes. Oh boy!
OK. Sorry to co-opt your vent there. I feel ya though!
Specializes in Med-surg, medical review, primary care.
You know what else makes me crazy? All of the online job application bots and yet every nurse you meet says, its all about who you know and the nurse managers will hire someone they have met before. I have never seen a job market so based on networking before and this is not my first career!
Or, the advice: You need a job as a tech (while in nursing school). Every nursing student in this freakin' STATE has applied to every tech job available. Forget it. They want a tech, not a nursing student who graduates in six months!
I have one friend who applied to 40 tech jobs per month since January. This past month, he finally pestered the nurse manager at the ER he did a practicum enough times that she actually called him and said something to the effect of "I finally have a position open, its in the PEDS ER, nights/weekends. Do you want it, yes or no. Otherwise, I am hanging up the phone and offering it to the next student on the list."
OUCH. Gee whiz. All that hard work and I think we were all thinking at the end of it, it will all be bright smiles and job offers. I remember going to the career fair a year and change ago and noticing how much attention the seniors were getting from the recruiters. I couldn't wait to be in those shoes. Oh boy!
OK. Sorry to co-opt your vent there. I feel ya though!
OMG I know!! It really is all about networking and it drives me crazy to know I am applying to a position that probably already has an owner. The nurse managers/hiring managers know someone they want to give the job to, but to keep it legal they post it. We get our hopes up and apply and for what? No reason.
You're definitely right about working as a tech as well. I worked as a tech as a summer job when I was out of state, and figured the beginning of my senior year I'd just get a job when I went back home as a tech. I came back to Boston and applied, but no one would hire me. Of course not, because like you said - I was going to be graduating soon! Ughhh!!
But, I still underestimated how almost impossible it was going to be to find a job. I honestly thought I'd have a job upon graduation, like those who graduated the year before me did. But, nope!! I was in for a surprise!! It just sucks and I'm tired of hearing "things will turn around soon"....well, how soon??? LoL and the co-op vent is completely fine!
It really is all about networking and it drives me crazy to know I am applying to a position that probably already has an owner. The nurse managers/hiring managers know someone they want to give the job to, but to keep it legal they post it.
And therein lies the rub with the importation of non-resident workers... the employer posts the job to keep it all legal and then simply hires the non-resident worker that they were going to hire originally.
To keep this thread on track: Please contact your representatives and voice your concern about this addle-headed bill.
Part-time, sporadic hours don't really count in my book.
I think when most people say they need a job, they mean that they need a full-time job.
Now personally, I'll take anything I can get... including a CNA or unit clerk position... just to get my foot in the door but realistically, I can't afford to be a part-time worker. Underemployment is better than unemployment but it still doesn't make ends meet.
It sounds to me like your employer is not offering enough for the position that they're looking to fill.
Um, how on earth would you know what we're offering???? haha. Perhaps my mistake is thinking that when someone says they want a job, I think that they want:
1. Experience
2. A pay check
3. Benefits
The job is flex part time. I would think for someone who "can't" get a job, that is better than no work. In fact, for people with kids, like the last person who did it, it is great because we are flexible so long as the work gets done. The hours are not odd. There are benefits, which I would think would matter greatly to someone with none. It could certainly work around another job, or school.
The fact that people can find something wrong with a reported job, of which they have minimal details, just shows that there is not a job shortage, there's a shortage of people willing to work (**please note that this is in some cases, such as my area, I know in some areas there really is no work**).
I mean, if I read one more description today that says "Required: 1 - 2 yrs experience" I'm just going to scream~~!!!
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I think when most people say they need a job, they mean that they need a full-time job.
Now personally, I'll take anything I can get... including a CNA or unit clerk position... just to get my foot in the door but realistically, I can't afford to be a part-time worker. Underemployment is better than unemployment but it still doesn't make ends meet.
It sounds to me like your employer is not offering enough for the position that they're looking to fill.