Replying to Job Offers

[iluvnoodles]

It's been 2 1/2 months of job hunting for me and within this last 2 weeks I've had 2 interviews and 1 interview request. My first interview at a home health, I was offered a job. I kindly waited to hear back from them and in the mean time, I went to another interview with a SNF that pays more. The SNF did not verybally hire me on the spot, but the interviewer could hardly contain their excitement. They were so excitement that I could speak a vietnamese, and it just so happened that their main physician sends all their vietnamese patients to that facility. If I am hired, i would be the only staff who could communicate with the vietnamese patients. It sounds very very promising and right now they are waiting for my background check, etc. Yesterday, I received a phone call from the home health that did offer me the job onsite and asked to call them back. I'm thinking that they want to schedule me to come in to do paper work and orientation, etc. So what should I do? I'd rather work at the SNF because they pay more, and but I don't want to keep the home health waiting. The interview with home health was last week and they didn't call me until yesterday afternoon. My interview with SNF was on monday, and I forgot to grab a bussiness card but I'm sure I can look up the number online. Would it be wrong if I called SNF to see what the status of my application is and get an idea if I will be hired? And would it also be wrong to mention I want to know ASAP because I do have a job offer eslewhere? When I left my interview with SNF, I felt excited, and I do feel that they will hire me. Its just that they did not verybally offer me a job like homehealth did. What should I do?

Desperate for advice....

[caliotter3]

Do not tell the SNF that you want to know now because of another job offer. That sounds like the "other job offer ultimatum ploy" and might cost you the job or put you in a poor light. Home health shift cases are available for all shifts any day of the week. I would secure the job with the SNF, then take a part, part time job working one or two shifts with the home health agency. That way, with two employers, you will have a little more job security in the long run. Lots of nurses add a home health shift here and there to their regular job for added income. Good luck with both situations.