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Pamelita: Everyone knows that they should change the oil in their car, change their sheets, and change their underware... Change is a necessary thing in many parts of our lives, and it is good. On the flip side of change is a rut, and a wiser person...

Pamelita: Everyone knows that they should change the oil in their car, change their sheets, and change their underware... Change is a necessary thing in many parts of our lives, and it is good. On the flip side of change is a rut, and a wiser person...

The current school of thought is that Behavioral interview questions are the best. The philosophy behind this interviewing strategy is that past performance predicts future success. For that reason all the questions are about how people did in simi...

I have found the Seattle nursing situation to be a bit different than the rest of the nation. The HR departments in that neck of the woods are unable to fill all their needs, but at the same time, they are not willing to give much incentive to start...

Unfortunately salary negotiations can be tricky. Most of us have an avoidance about talking about money and especially our own. Who knows where this comes from, but I think it is not something to be afraid of. In fact it is one of the most importa...

Thanks for the feedback all.

Which internet job boards do you think are the most popular for nurses looking for a position. Also, if I have missed a site you think is a good one please share it with the rest of us.

This is a common problem that I see as well. Because of the nursing shortage, most nurses do not take the interviewing/resume writing process nearly as seriously as they should. I have seen so many nurses come into interviews with just jeans, and a...

I agree with what everyone has said. There is much to consider in what you are planning though. With years of experience it is quite easy to land another job and the options abound (just ask your old UM...). The dark side of it all is that once y...

It strikes me that you have something that an attorney who specializes in Employment Law would like to hear. I personally am no fan of Lawyers, but I am not a fan of someone getting shafted either. Employment law itself is quite tricky, but there i...

Awhile ago someone posted a funny but true statement, they said that the nursing shortage is due in no small part to the inability of the HR (Human Resource) departments in hospitals. As a recruiter I work with more healthcare HR departments then I c...

I have often times seen cities and states refer to themselves as having high or low nurse per capita ratios, and stacking themselves up to other states regarding how bad there nursing shortage is based upon this data. One common example is that Mass...

Do watch that cost of living factor. On the East Side of Washington State your cost of living is more than 25% less than on the West Side. So despite the fact you may make $10,000K more in one location than another, it may actually work out that yo...

From my experience the state of nursing is so bad right now that grades are not even a priority for most of the hiring managers out there. They are mostly concerned with just finding someone who has passed boards! The fact many employers don't focu...

As a hiring manager I would agree with Molly. The strengths and especially "greatest weaknesses" questions are the ones that inevitably tie people up the most. There are many variations on "what's your greatest weakness" like "if there was one thin...