job

so awhile ago I started applying for jobs all over. I applied in the tri-cities, vancouver (wa), yakima, moses lake, wenatchee....and a few other places. I got an interview in wenatchee, but they didn't want me. and 5 weeks ago I got an interview with the hospital in moses lake for their mother/baby unit. I was ecstatic. I love peds and ob, and to be able to work in one of those areas would be amazing. so I went to the interview, and I thought it went great. like really great. I don't usually interview particularly well, so I thought for sure that I got the job. I asked when I might hear about the job and they said the end of the next week or the beginning of the week after. which was fine.

and so I began waiting.

on the monday of the "beginning of the week after that" I was starting to seriously study for the nclex. and I got super nervous, so I called. and the hr lady/nurse recruiter wasn't there. so I left a message. and then I waited until thursday to call back. and left another message. and then called on friday and was told she was out of the office. so I waited until monday to call back.

that monday (which was almost 3 weeks after my interview) I called and talked to her. she said that since she had been out of the office the end of the week before that she wasn't sure what still needed to be done to decide. she thought that they were still working on getting references. so I said okay, and asked when I might hear. she said since she didn't know where in the process everything was that she didn't know a timeline. I thanked her and said goodbye.

I called again the following monday. it had now been almost 4 weeks since my interview. she said that something had happened with all of the job postings...that they needed to hire a new lead nurse and a new experienced nurse. so the job posting that was listed on the website went for those two jobs. and they needed to post another listing for the new grad job. and that by contract the job had to be listed for seven days. I said thank you and that I would hope to hear from her the next week.

monday again...it was this past monday, and now almost 5 full weeks since my interview. I was going to wait until tuesday or thursday to call...since I didn't know if the job needed to be listed for seven days or seven business days. and I was eating lunch with my dad when I got a call from the nurse recruiter. she told me that the nurse manager I had interviewed with had left for some reason (moved...fired...not sure) and that they now had an interim manager for the department. and since she didn't know anything about me, she wanted to meet with me for a short interview.

that's right. five weeks after my first interview, I had to have another one.

so I went back to the hr office on tuesday for my second interview. I walked in and told the receptionist at the desk that I had an interview with the nurse recruiter and the nurse manager of the mother baby unit. and she said, "oh I'm the nurse recruiter." it had been five weeks....and I didn't remember what she looked like. great. she must have thought I was an idiot.

so then I sat and waited to be called back for the interview. after about 10 or so minutes I finally went back, and after I sat down the nurse manager said, "well I see that you have a lot of experience in ob, and that your goal is to become a certified nurse midwife." and the nurse recruiter said, "no, that's the other candidate."

oh great. so the other person has a ton more experience in ob than I do. just great.

and I tried to be the happy bubbly person I can be, and was in my last interview. but she had to tweak the questions because I didn't have all the experience that she thought I did. And I thought that the interview went okay. until the end. the nurse recruiter told me that they were hiring one full time, one part time, and a couple of on call positions. and that if I was offered a position that wasn't full time I would still train for 6 months at full time, and then I would have to move into pt or oc.

knowing that I really need to work full time, I just put it out there. I told them that I needed to work full time, and I asked if I was offered one of the other positions what I could do to work full time after the orientation. and they explained some other options to me. which sound okay. but I really need a full time position with benefits.

I asked when I might hear back...and she said the end of the week or the beginning of next week at the latest.

well its thursday. and I'm still waiting patiently. I won't be surprised if I don't hear back until the middle of next week. which will make it 6 full weeks since my initial interview. and now I have to decide if I will take a position other than full time since I botched this interview...or if I should say no and hope I get a job somewhere else....but I don't have any other prospects at this time.

that's it....my job story so far. well...I left out all of the crappy stuff that happened at the hospital in richland, but that's another story....I really just want the full time position...