Graduate RN nurses who missed out New Grad Positions /PETITION

Dear Friends,

We have 122 hits on the Graduate RN nurses who missed out New Grad Positions/PETITION, but we do not have any support reply, please share your stories, how do you deal with your unemployment? how do you feel about being unemployed. Please share our petition page and our FB page with others. Come and make comments on the FB page. We are also organising video campaign for the NSW RN new graduates who do not have an employment.We want the Health Department taking an interest to our problem. We want every nursing RN graduate have the opportunity to practice their skills. This is very important, we are looking forward to hear from RN new graduates who are particularly missed out of New Graduate programs.

Thank you

Good luck with your job hunting

Bea

Dear Friends

We need three to six new graduates who are presently unemployed and looking for new graduate jobs, doesn't matter whether you have done your post graduate one year placement or not please contact us, or leave a message here and we shall.
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New Graduate Nurses say 'Give us jobs' Please share our page and sign our petitions, thank you for your support
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Dear Friends

This is another petition on the same topis is organised by the SA Nursing Association, would be nice to support as well.

• New Graduate Nurses say 'Give us jobs' Budget for more graduate jobs for nurses
  http://www.communityrun.org/petitions/budget-for-more-graduate-jobs-for-nursesBudget for more graduate jobs for nurseswww.communityrun.org

Budget for more graduate jobs for nurses

To: State Treasurer

2,408
of 3,000 signatures

Hi Bea,

I’m gonna put my 2 cents in with the risk of starting world war III

You stated, “each year hundreds of nursing graduates come our of universities in Australia and finding themselves in the real world of public health system” There are many people are out there that are in the same, if not, worse predicament than graduate nurses. Welcome to what many people have been dealing with a lot longer than a few months. It’s called a ‘competitive job market’ Many Australians have a family to support, a mortgage to pay, no job and a lack of any qualifications. As you can imagine there are some pretty desperate people out there that will take any job they can get. Unemployment is not a choice for them like it seems to be for you.

 Just because you have finished university and now have your degree does not mean you are entitled to a job. It is no secret that there are limited grad jobs compared with graduates in the public system. You cannot blame the government that you missed out on a grad position. The successful graduate nurses either,

A – Had better grades than you

B – Performed better in the interview than you

C –Constructed a better cover letter and resume

D – did all of the above.

No conspiracy. The best person for the job was chosen. That’s how the recruitment process works. Some win, some loose.

 You said…“We want every nursing RN graduate have the opportunity to practice their skills. This is very important” Then stop blaming the government and go look for a job elsewhere.

Think outside the square. The public health system is not the only way to get a new graduate job.

Ever thought of joining the private sector? Gradplus a 1 year grad program, at well over 30 hospitals in 3 states  is available to all recently graduated Registered Nurses -  http://www.gradplus.com.au/. Open now for applications.

 This next quote is from the NSW government site – Graduate Nursing application page itself…..

“Employment opportunities also exist in the Private and Disability Care Sectors. Vacancies in these sectors are usually advertised in newspapers and on hospital web sites”

http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/nursing/employment/Pages/Recruit.aspx

 Or, here’s a thought....what about spending your graduate year working in Aboriginal Health? Or in aged care or mental health? Theres 2 ways that this scenario could go….

Prospective boss interviews someone who he sees has been proactive and stepped out of their comfort zone to help care for some of Australia’s most vulnerable…    OR…  receives job application from someone who has been unemployed since graduating university What are you going to say to them if they ask you why you haven’t been able to find work? That you were too good to bite the bullet and take a non-public system nursing position, or… SHOCK HORROR….a non-skilled job to tide you by? Yep, employers tend to see long unexplained periods of unemployment as a bad thing, go figure.

Stop sabotaging your chances of landing a decent job - Sometimes we all have to settle for second best.

the public health system in Australia is struggling and many states are offering only a handful of graduate positions because they simply cant afford new grads. Hospitals nation wide are making experienced nurses redundant and closing wards. This forces a surplus of new grad AND experienced nurse (that were fired from the public system) applications on the private system, who can't give everyone a job and would naturally prefer someone with experience. Don't blame the system, blame your university and the media for creating this image that there is a "nursing shortage". The shortage is for experienced nurses. Its an expensive investment hiring a new graduate nurse, only the cream of the crop get hired usually these days. I often encourage students I work with who say things like "I chose nursing cause the jobs are everywhere with the nursing shortage blah blah.." to do some ACTUAL research and see that it's near impossible to get hired as a new grad right now. Don't chuck a tantrum and start a "petition" and blame others when you should have done your homework and perhaps picked a profession that wasnt in the current economic state that nursing is in right now. 

Flame me, start world war III with me, this is a forum- that's my opinion. 

Hi all New Grads that missed out on the PMCV Computer Matching Service in 2012 (Victoria)

Just a heads up, that SOUTHERN HEALTH (Monash Medical) has advertised for a new intake  “Graduate Nurse Program(Collaborative) - closing date 11/6/2013  (Job Ref. no.  11483)

http://southernhealth.mercury.com.au/ViewPosition.aspx?Id=11483&k=nurse&E=0&C=0&J=0&P=0&I=0&page=2

Good luck

For those who bothered to reply and signed our petition, and liked our FACEBOOK page thank you from the bottom of our heart. Those who put not so positive comments here, we thank you too. You have made our petition even more worth while.We don't know your circumstances and you do not know our circumstances, so do not put judgmental comments... at least if you do not have something good to say, do not say anything. Your negative comments will not deter us from talking about the current health system which is undermining the patient safety, and not employing all but again ALL New Graduate Nurses who deserve a chance to practice their RN skills to get that "one year experience".I will leave you with this video which gives out loud message. Just listen, " It's the health care disgrace.They're fully qualified and willing to go anywhere for work. But why are so many nurses begging for jobs? "http://aca.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8611380Thank you again for those who have supported us and send us their positive and encouraging comments..Bea

Rororo

To be fair, some of the graduate recruitment rates are appalling considering that in a few years the shortage is likely to return. This all stems from the 2008-09 GFC. In the past, during and after recessions, nurses delay retirement. So this is what happens, but like everything, governments can only cut for so long and then it swings back the other way. That is my take on it anyway.

Bea, the current nursing climate is only temporary, that is my opinion. Just keep cracking and eventually you will be fine. Alternatively, as others have suggested, take up some work in other areas and think outside the square. Good luck.

Well I'm 49 and have an interview on Wednesday 21/08/13 in mental health - my first choice, my second choice was aged care. It is true that many young students do not want to work in these areas they want ED, theatre or children's nursing jobs, areas that I would really dislike. I don't know how I will go in the interview but here's hoping. On another note, the universities have a lot to answer for they are pumping out the nurses in massive numbers - why? for the money. Particularly overseas students who pay way more.

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Bea