are people seeing movement in the nsg job market?

[hbgwan]

Hi all. I was just wondering if people are starting to see movement in the nursing job market, especially for new grads.

Thanks,

hbgwan

[mb1949]

I think it depends on the area, NYC forget it there are no jobs for new grads, a few of my classmates, moved way upstate for jobs, a few got jobs at LTC they worked at as CNA and the rest of us are still looking like everyone else.

[amazed107]

I am out here in Los Angeles, CA. Nothing going on here. I graduated June 2010

[janice_c67, BSN, RN]

In my class of 24 from June 2010, I think 5 have jobs, 3 of which are in hospitals. I have been aggressively looking all over from east to west coasts and in between, I must not be looking in the right places. I have 15 years of hospital patient care experience too (all in the same hospital)

[BettyBoop01]

75 in my class, June 2010. About 10 of us got hospital jobs, 8 of the 10 of us by relocating out of state. The other 2 were one that worked as a cna for 15 years on the same floor, her floor hired her, and the other whose mother is a nurse manager, she was hired ny her moms hospital. Over the last few months several others have been hired prn into ltc. For the most part, my classmates are bartending, waitressing, or back at their old job. Oh 4 are at Starbucks.

By the way, my out of state job turned out to be in a scary understaffed place that hired (preyed upon) batches of out of state new grads every few months and just burns em out til they quit. I lasted the longest from my training group, and that was 6 months before finding another job. Most quit pretty quickly, they were smarter than me. So although I have some hospital experience I am not sure it is worth anything as far as quality.

[Leonardo Del Toro, RN]

I agree with that. Hospitals need to hire newgrads but they don't have the money to commit to a full "newgrad program" so they hire who they want but you must make yourself available. Believe it or not it might be true that newgrad programs right now might be the spot with the least opportunities to find a job due to the large amount of applicants.

[sunnycalifRN]

In the SF Bay Area: the VA hospital just started a cohort of new grads (20, I think). My unit, ICU, has openings but only for experienced RN's.

[Trinitas2010RN]

I think it depends on the area, NYC forget it there are no jobs for new grads, a few of my classmates, moved way upstate for jobs, a few got jobs at LTC they worked at as CNA and the rest of us are still looking like everyone else.

Yep. Totally true. Dead or N. NJ. and CT as well.

http://www.oswegohealth.org/careers/job-openings.cfm

I maybe able to help a little here. I did recently speak to a recruiter in Oswego hospital, NY.

The seem to need people up there. So if you can pack up and go way north. I think one has a good shot at getting a job there. Unfortunately with my situation I can't.