New Grads: how long did it take you to find a job, or how long have you been ...

kieran07 · Jan 15, 2015

I started this thread last year and I'm glad to say I started a job this month! Neuroscience floor at an acute care hospital in the Bay Area! Took forever, but don't give up!

RunnerRN2015, ASN, RN · Jan 15, 2015

I graduated Dec 2014 and had a job offer about a month before I graduated, as did about 1/3 of my class. One interview = one job offer! Several more have been offered jobs since graduation. I passed NCLEX last week and start my RN job next month. :)

~Shrek~ · Jan 17, 2015

I was working the day after I got licensed. It was an awful job and not in acute care. I quit with no job lined up and got hired again in 6 weeks at a less crazy job with a much better schedule where I am learning and that I enjoy but with low pay. My boss knows I don't plan to stay here forever and actually encourages me to apply to acute care positions. So gradually I am filling out applications and hopefully I will be in a better paying but equally nice job in 6-12 months.

coastal SoCal

catlovingRN, BSN, RN · Mar 1, 2015

-NJ
-Graduated Rutgers in May 2014
-Passed boards August 1, 2014
-Applied to about 20-30 jobs at 2 hospitals and never received responses from either
-Went to a new grad RN open house at St. Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick the second week of September and got offered an intern position on the Mother/Baby unit 2 weeks later!!! It's a 6-8 week unpaid internship but hopefully there's a job after!

I guess I should update this. The internship ended up falling through and after many many more applications and about a 4 month interviewing process I got a job on an ortho/stroke floor in south Jersey. I start tomorrow! :)

chrisbauerwrat · Mar 2, 2015

Graduated bsn October 2014. Passed nclex November 4 2014. Accepted job November 18, turned down in lieu of icu position November 24.

Had 8 interviews in 2 week span.

I'm in Michigan

AllInRN, ASN, BSN · Mar 3, 2015

WTG! congrats

Brown-Hughes RN · Mar 3, 2015

Graduated September 2014

Passed NCLEX October 2014

Filled out approx 15 applications

Accepted a position as an CC nurse and started February 2015

Philadelphia

caseyuptonurse · Mar 4, 2015

Graduated May 2014.

Passed boards July 2014.

Offered a job first day after passing boards.

Applied to about 30 positions before boards, and two after passing boards. Also had 5 interviews (I apparently don't do so well because I only landed one offer.) ha.

Philadelphia

Trauma_drama14, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN, NP · Mar 8, 2015

Dayton, OH here

graduated with my ADN 5/5/14

Took boards on 6/17/14

Started working 7/14/14 in one of the largest hospitals in town on a general surgery/urology floor.

prior to this, I was already working as an LPN on a skilled nursing unit at a LTC for three years so I worked there until the unit I precepted on officially offered me a job. I was promised a job when I finished my preceptorship in the end of April.

I found that alot of the students that graduated with me mostly had a hard time finding jobs because the hospitals around here want you to have your BSN, but now that they finally realized theres no way you can completely fill your hospital woth BSN nurses, they have finally started really hiring ADN nurses again.

idani, BSN, MSN, RN, APRN, NP · Mar 8, 2015

Graduated in Feb 2014

Boards April 2014

Accepted job Nov 2014

I work in MICU step down NYC

christina731 · Mar 9, 2015

Graduated in Dec 2014 (ADN)

Licensed Jan 22, 2015

I went on 3 interviews the following week, 2 in medsurg at 2 different hospitals and one in IMC at another hospital. I was offered one of the medsurg positions during the interview and the IMC position a week later.

I started work on 2/16/15, a little over 2 months last graduation.

canes1RN, BSN · Mar 11, 2015

SW FL

Graduated Dec 2014

Passed nclex Jan 2015

Hired at the hospital I worked as a PCT right after passing.