letter of recommendation

[choco2me]

Hello, I've just joined this website and have a question.

I should have known here earlier.

I graduated in May, 2008 and passed Nclex last week.

Now, I'm looking for a job but I haven't applied any hospital yet.

I'll visit each hospital to drop my resume. I don't know it would be worth or not but I'll just try it.

At this time do I need to have letters of recommendation(LOR) in my hand?

I've talked to my instructors before I graduated and they know I use their names as my references. But I don't have letters now.

I thought the hospital will contact to references for the letter or phone conversation after interview. However, my classmate said she sent LOR with her application.

I'm so confused...

What should I do now?

[oldfaithful]

well, in my opinion, it's really nothing to worry too much about. LORs are always good to keep available, but if you don't have them right up front, I'm sure the hospital personelle will just ask you to submit them. No big deal really. I don't even know if I ever used mine from my instructors. hope this eases your mind.

[blinks14]

I'm a new grad and most jobs I applied to this year required letters of recommendation. I got 2 from coworkers of mine and copied them and handed them in with my application. I also had to have transcripts and letters of intent for some of my applications. But some of that stuff was requested after I had my initial interview with human resources and were for the nurse managers of the units I interviewed on. I don't think it would be a big deal if you didn't have the letters in hand when you initially dropped off your resume.

[choco2me]

Thank you so much.

I feel much better now. I felt so behind and depressed.

I'll ask my instructors for LOR.

blinks14/ Did you photocopy LOR? Is that acceptable?

If copied one is OK, it would be much easier to send them all different places.

[blinks14]

Noone seemed to have a problem with the fact that they were copied, I had to hand them in to multiple nurse managers so I'm sure they don't expect 2 different ones for each position you apply for.