Success!

congratulations are in order...as i wish you the very best in all of your future endeavors..aloha~

YAY! I'm really happy for you

Any advice for those of us still in school, who would LOVE to have the same thing happen for us? ;-P

CONGRATS!!!!:cheers:

I can't wait to go shopping again, and color my hair!!!!

I got a job offer today and took it! After all my worrying and fussing it really happened. :) I am above the moon. It's especially exciting because I was convinced that it would take me 6 mo-1 year to get a job and that it may not be a job I would be excited about. INSTEAD I got a job in a field I'm passionate about at a great hospital and just passed my NCLEX a month ago!

So, it can happen! It really can! Keep trying. It only takes that one application to change everything.

Oh, I'm going to go grocery shopping without a calculator tomorrow, baby!

Mazel Tov! May You a Hundred

years of Joy! Stollah!

Thank you all!! Oh, hair color...I almost forgot, madpeys! I'll take one of those.

@bostonstudentnurse: My strategy started out sort of by the book. I had four interviews total. For the first two, I made a mistake. I read a whole lot about interview etiquette. I wore a really nice suit. I thought about answers beforehand. In the end, I felt stiff and not myself.

Before my most recent two interviews I bought a more business casual outfit that I would be comfortable in - but that still looked nice. I spent the weekend with people I love. When I went to the interview I was genuine and myself and answered questions the way I would answer them if they came from my best friend. (It helps that I'm the optimistic sort...I have heard if you're a griper to avoid doing it during an interview.)

I did the same at the next interview and in both I got very positive responses. When I felt more comfortable I felt more enthusiastic and it showed. Before hand I had reread my old nursing school journals and my essays from early in school and recaptured the reason I quit my old job to become a nurse. I talked about that. I thought about patients that I had cared for in school and how much that had meant to me. I talked about that. I thought about how important it is to me that a family feel included (with the patients permission) and educated and I talked about it. I avoided thoughts about "What if this is my last shot at an interview? I really need this job!" because they weren't helpful in the past.

To get the interviews I read and reread my cover letter and resume for each hospital I applied to. I rewrote it so that the information I knew they would care about was up top (this took research). I was careful to avoid letting my cover letter sound like a form letter and I rewrote it so that my passion would be clear.

So, in the end, just be yourself. Remember why you wanted to become a nurse. Dress so that you look nice but are comfortable. Proofread. :)

damask, good advices for those who are job seeking :yelclap:

Congrats! This is very encouraging!

:) Congrats on the job! I LOL'd out loud when I read the calculator comment - been there, done that!

You also have good advice for interviewing, I hope others who come across it will read and learn.

Thank for posting. Congrats to you!

Yay! Congrats to you. May you have a wonderful, satisfying career. :w00t:

Thank you all! I hope things start looking up for all the other new graduates out there.