6 Powerful and Effective Tips to Find a Nursing Job Career Opportunity Sooner Than You Expected
6 Powerful and Effective Tips to Find a Nursing Job Career Opportunity Sooner Than You Expected
Are you a registered nurse and still looking for a job? Do you have the experience and skill needed but your employer does not provide you with exciting career challenges? Do you seek to work abroad for greener pasteur?
Whether you are a pro or a beginner nurse, finding a nursing job isn’t easy nowadays in the Philippines. Not only it is a time consuming and a frustrating process, it also robs you of the opportunity to focus on your career growth and stability
The biggest piece of the puzzle on any job search process is to know where and what to look for in a nursing position that is suited for you. And being proactive here will surely mean so much for you when you are ready to go to work.
We have designed the following 6 powerful and effective tips (and tricks) to take some of the headache out of your search, by giving you some directions and guidance on the steps you need to take to find a job opportunity that is your ideal nursing job.
1. Pay a visit to recruitment or human resources department of hospitals, medical centers and doctor’s offices to inquire about the availability of nursing positions. If there are no vacancies, please offer your resume to remain on their file and ask them to call you should their future openings match your skills.
2. Call nursing recruitment and contract employment agencies. This is a one-to-many strategy. Aligning yourself with a nursing headhunter can give you access to jobs that are often not advertised to the public. The best thing about recruiting agencies is they allow you to apply for positions at multiple companies simultaneously with a single resume submission. The recruiters will be the one to match your resume to all of the available nursing job openings. Once you have a match, they will surely call you.
3. Search the Internet. Searching for work for nurses or nursing jobs on the internet will reveal hundreds of available job opportunities for you. Just be aware that the competition for these open positions is tough since hundreds, if not thousands, of other nurses are also looking at and applying for the same jobs ad.
4. Train for Free. When you don’t have work, then try to gain experience by working for free while you are waiting. By doing so, you are helping the community or the local hospital within your vicinity. This is one of the best ways to get your feet in the door of the medical profession and also gain experience. Experience in real world hospital care is normally a plus to employers especially if you are a new nurse. Consequently, it also gives you a chance to evaluate the organization and nursing department to ensure it is a match with your expectations before applying for the post for the long haul.
5. Check your school. Your Alma Mater often has available positions in the nursing school’s dean’s office or else they can refer you to another organization. Nursing dean advisors are also excellent sources of information on how to network in the industry and get your foot in the door. They are often asked by potential employers who seek fresh nursing graduates rather than experienced nurses. You can ask your former nursing professors too to help you out.
6. Power of Networking. Get your friends, family, and casual acquaintances involved in the search. Through them, other people and organization will know that you are on the market searching for work. Most companies nowadays would hire those that have been recommended and fully vouched for by acquiantances. So it’s really important to spread the news that you are available and seeking a new job opportunity in nursing.
Finding a nursing Job and career opportunity is not an easy task. But Filipinos are known for their resourcefulness. if there’s a will, there’s a way.
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More Healthcare Nursing Jobs and Work Opportunities in the US Because of Nursing Shortage
Healthcare nursing job opportunities in the US is now, more than ever, real than projected years ago. The expected nursing shortage as far back as early 2000 which the the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) have predicted has now compounded to unexpected scale. Hospitals and healtcare institution are now feeling the bite of the shortage in their facilities.
Several causes of nursing shortage have been accurately pinpointed (as predicted long ago).
1. Small enrollees for nursing profession can fill seats of aging nurses - Despite the fact that enrollment numbers for nursing programs in schools have increased slightly recently, experts believe that such an increase is not even enough to fill the projected demand for nurses over the new few years. Fact is, some experts estimate that the enrollment numbers for younger people entering nursing programs would have to increase exponentially, by at least 40 percent annually, to meet the increasing demand for nurses as older registered nurses, or RNs, retire from the work force.
2. Lack of faculty to educate and train nurses - The sad fact however is that enrollment cannot increase in the desired numbers simply because of limiting factors placed on nursing programs. It has been estimated that about two-thirds of nursing schools turned aspiring and qualified applicants away because of lack of staff and facilities to teach them. Without the institution and the faculty to educate and train the nurses, more and more youth will divert their attention to other profession. Nursing programs in the country are not well funded and cannot afford the staff, laboratories, and clinical facilities required to fulfill the needs of more nursing students.
3. Aging American population - Of course, as more and more baby boomers retire and age, the need for more nurses to care for them also increases. However, because of the shortage of facilities and lack of funding to train new nurses as discussed above, hospitals, healthcare and other medical facilities are experiencing a scary shortage that can hamper the American health care system if not addressed soonest.
4. Inability to Import Nurses - Each year thousands and thousands of qualified nurses abroad wants to work in the States and help care their population in exchange for work and money. However, the visa retrogression is preventing the inflow of new nurses to the United States until a law will ease up the US Visa issue. This nursing shortage will just be compounded by the lack of new nurses entering the work force as older RNs choose to retire.
There are many other reasons why more and more nurses are going out of the system but the above are major ones. Others include attractive pay from other profession, nursing burnouts (due to shortage), lack of funding for nurses development and inadequate attention to nurses needs.
We are hoping that the Filipino nurses will benefit later on this huge demand and nursing job opportunities in the US.