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Does anyone know of any hospitals hiring new graduates?! I have an RN and have a previous BFA from a University.

I have sent out countless resumes and everyone is looking for BSN's or experience or they are simply not hiring.

Please don't tell me to move to TX :) I'm from there and I KNOW there are jobs there, I just want to work up here for a while.

Thank you for any help you can offer.

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I'm in North NJ, also a new graduates, with no experience nor BSN. Looks only way to go is nursing home or LTC if I stay in this area.

Wondering if upper state new york has a better opportunity. Compared with Texas, at least it is within driving distance!

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I wish I could help but I'm in the same predicament. Every job I apply to wants BSN or experience. I got outright rejection letter from NYP, I got 3 acknowledgements that my resume has been received, and not even that from the other places I applied to. I call the places that acknowledge that they received my resume and can't even get a recruiter on the phone. People are RUDE. You leave VM and they never return your phone calls.

This is my second career and I have never experienced this kind of blatant dismissal from a potential employer in my entire working life. Even when the employer wasn't interested they had the decency to return my calls or email and say we aren't interested.

A lot of these nurse recruiters suck for lack of a better word.

I'm an ADN with a non-nursing BA and almost 2 years experience as an LPN in SNF/LTC. Right now it's hard to not feel depressed. I feel like a Christmas fruitcake...no one seems to want me. I could have stayed an LPN with less loans and less headaches then what I have right now. I feel sort of deceived by everyone who told me that RN was the golden ticket and that being an LPN was soooo lame. I guess I shouldn't though because no one could have predicted that things would be this bad when I started school more than two years ago. It's just our bad luck to graduate during this stinking recession.

The only things we can do is to keep applying for every hospital job we see and in addition to that I'm also heading back to school in January for two reasons.

1. I can put on my resume that I am enrolled in an BSN/MSN program which will hopefully appeal to employers.

2. I can defer my student loans as long as I am taking 6 credits because I can't afford to pay them on an LPN salary.

Keep your head up SAMRN01 someone has to retire, get fired, or (God forgive me) die eventually.

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Hi Bronx_RN,

I admire your determination.

However, I feel this world is getting more & more competitive, and cruel :cry:, at the same time.

I hate to say, but now with the industrialization of our education system, the same thing also happens globally, the glory of the college degrees is fading, while skills/experiences is what really makes one stand out. I would look hard for a job. Going to school is more like "evading/escaping" from the cruel reality temporarily. Say two years later, you are probably more competitive on the job market & much better off with 2-years meds-surg experience and an ADN than a fresh BSN who does not have any experience.

That said, I did not mean to discourage you from furthering your education. I wish you all the best in your efforts.

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Don't bother looking toward California... the job market sucks here.

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Don't get me wrong....I will still be looking for an RN job (if I don't find one soon) and working as an LPN while I attend school. It was never my intention to not work while I was in school. I'm an older student with a family and I am not in a position to do that.

The city and state university system have online programs so I'm going to go that route. It's convenient and I can afford to pay for all classes out of pocket w/o taking anymore loans.

Hi Bronx_RN,

I admire your determination.

However, I feel this world is getting more & more competitive, and cruel :cry:, at the same time.

I hate to say, but now with the industrialization of our education system, the same thing also happens globally, the glory of the college degrees is fading, while skills/experiences is what really makes one stand out. I would look hard for a job. Going to school is more like "evading/escaping" from the cruel reality temporarily. Say two years later, you are probably more competitive on the job market & much better off with 2-years meds-surg experience and an ADN than a fresh BSN who does not have any experience.

That said, I did not mean to discourage you from furthering your education. I wish you all the best in your efforts.

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