can't you just call me if you say you will?!

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I'm sorry. this is more of a rant than anything else. and i know i'm lucky to even have made it as far as interviews as a new grad with an ADN. buuuut:

i had an interview on Monday. It was 3 hours away, so I had to take the day off from my FT desk job and sleep in a hotel the night before. But it was worth it. It's a LTC facility and seemed like a really great place. The interview went well, I thought. After we chatted, I was given a tour. And then we chatted some more. Overall, I was there for almost 2 hours. She said that she really liked me and that she had a feeling we'd be moving forward together.

She said she would call me, either way, on Friday (today).

And I get that she's busy, and I get that she may have accepted another candidate. But now I'm practically in a fetal position over this. :sorry: I don't want to call her, bcs I don't want to seem too pushy (I'll call Monday though). But I feel like I'm waiting for a guy to call after a date or something. Sitting by the phone, twitching every time it makes a sound.

So it's almost 5pm Friday for me. No call. My boyfriend keeps saying that no news is better than bad news. But man, I just wish that phone would ring.

Specializes in ER.

I'm in a similar boat right now. I have not heard anything either way and it's been 2 weeks. Unfortunately, one week was Thanksgiving so I don't know if that threw a wrench into the powers' plans in approving people to get hired (everyone is hiring people at the moment so there are about 30-40 people being hired in our hospital right now).

I do know it can take awhile to get hired into the jobs, but I have had no calls.

Here's a tip from a person with more job-hunting experience over the years than I care to admit -- don't believe people, in the first place, when they say they will call you Tuesday, or Thursday, or a week from Friday. This means a whole lot more to you than it does to them, lots of things can happen, and calling you back when they said they would (or even remembering that they said they would call you on that day) is just not a high priority for them. You'll hear from them when you hear from them. If you don't take them seriously in the first place, it saves you a lot of emotional wear and tear. :) Best wishes!

Specializes in Psych.

Congrats! I interviewed twice for my first job and didn't hear anything from them for a few WEEKS. I had totally given up on that position and then I got the call. I will forever remember my old boss asking me, "are you still job searching, because we'd like to end your search". So def sometimes no news=good news

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