Purplewinged

Hey guys! I've been following this thread very closely throughout my hiring process, you guys are awesome and eased my mind a lot even though this is my first time posting. I'm currently finishing up Orientation at the VA. I applied for several positions whenever they posted anything open, but never heard anything. So I decided to go back to school, when I all of the sudden received the call. I didn't even know what position it was for exactly, because it had been awhile since I applied. My interview was beginning of April with 3 Nurse managers. It was super easy and they only asked me 5 questions. I was sure I messed that up, I was so nervous. About 1 week later I was called for references, another week later I revived the tentative offer by phone. After that I started Vetpro which I completed the same day and my references and former and current employers had everything back to them within 1 week. My Physical and Fingerprinting was done end of May. Then it was a 2ish week waiting game for that to come back! My nerves! Once that cleared they send me Eqip and somebody contacted me for more info and credentials for the boarding process. I sent everything I could find, former employee of the month awards, customer service awards, special nursing classes and training and advancement I took, a detailed résumé listing exactly my job responsibilities and experience, school transcripts (I graduated top of my class so I made sure to send that just in case. Lol) ... Then it was back to twiddling thumbs, getting gray hairs and goodbye fingernails. I was sure they changed their mind! But HR was great with keeping me in the loop and answering all my emails and calls immediately. End of June I received the official offer! I was so excited I was shaking, I couldn't even type. The salary was surprisingly higher than I expected, I'm a new grad with just short of 1 year experience and only worked at in ADL and the jail. So I started by Beginning/mid July, so the whole process was about 3ish months, which I was told is fairly fast in VA standards. And they sure mean business with their nursing orientation!