New grad looking for job

I graduated in Dec 2014 and a large number of classmates, me included, had job offers the month before graduation. Those who didn't have jobs waiting for them all found jobs within a month or two after graduation.

Thanks for your response! Do you feel like you had a better chance at getting a job with hem since you went to school locally? Or do you know if they accept a lot of new grads within those timeframes?

Thanks for your response! Do you feel like you had a better chance at getting a job with hem since you went to school locally? Or do you know if they accept a lot of new grads within those timeframes?

I went to Carolinas College of Health Sciences, which is the nursing school on the campus of CMC within Carolinas Healthcare System. They graduate 60-70 RNs twice a year and the majority of them get hired within Carolinas Healthcare System. Even though it's "only" an ADN school, our graduates always rank at the top of HR's list for hiring. Since we do all of our clinicals at CMC and a lot of us worked within the system while in school, it was fairly easy getting hired as RNs, even into sought after units like ED, ICU, L&D, NICU, etc. There are several nursing schools in the area so they have a pretty large pool from which to hire. There were a few out of the area new grads when I started but not many.

Thank you for all of there information, I've been applying to CMC and Novant, but haven't had much luck as of yet. Do you know when the fall nurse residency starts? I know the applications open in September, but I wasn't sure if each program had their own specific start date.

I don't know about Novant but CMC's Nurse Residency programs (Journey for ICU, Advance for ED and other units, PeriOp for OR) start in late Jan/early February for Dec grads and late July/early August for May grads. If you're a new grad but not part of a Nurse Residency program, you start whenever your unit wants you to start.