New Grad Getting employed/ getting employed in San Diego

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I am about to graduate in May. I have already started working in my résumé, and am surfing openings. I am trying relocate to San Diego, which I heard can be tough. Any tips/ help hints?

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

Moved to our California Nursing forum

Our AN Nursing Career Advice forums Nursing Resume Help, Nursing Interview Help, and First Year After Nursing Licensure will assist you.

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

Seriously, if it is at all possible, do not relocate to ANYWHERE in CA without an official job offer in hand.

Bay, coastal and southern California are horrible job markets for new grads: too many of you and not enough new grad jobs to go around. And even nursing homes/LTC are asking for at least a year's experience. Inland CA or CA along the Mexico border (not SD, but east such as Imperial County) may be better.

Just read all of the threads in the CA forum to see what I'm talking about.

If you insist on coming out to CA first, hopefully you'll have family/friends you can stay with or can fund living a CA lifestyle while you search (average new grad takes about 6-12 months to find a job, and it's expensive in CA). Start looking for and applying to stuff now. And if you see any new grad residencies advertised, apply for them immediately (as in before you even close the browser window). Most new grad residency positions are online for a week or so, but are often taken down sooner when they get enough applicants...so that job listing may not be there the next time you come by the website to apply.

Good luck.

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Specializes in Hospice & Palliative Care, Oncology, M/S.

I applied for 10 months and went on six interviews before I was accepted last week into a residency program. I was born and raised here in San Diego and am an internal employee with one system, but none of that mattered.

As Meriwhen said, the second you see a job opening, apply for it. There are thousands of applications for just a handful of positions, and those programs will vanish off the job sites days before they're "supposed to" because there are so many applications coming through.

Many of my friends have had to move out of state to find jobs. We do what we have to do. It's rough.

Good luck!

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