Competition
continues to be tough for new graduate nurses. There continues to
be few new graduate openings. Hospitals continue to favor experienced
nurses over new less experienced nurses. They don't want to spend
the money to invest new nurse training. In fact, the new trend is
to pay a new graduate a lesser salary during their first year of
work. One very well-known hospital is even hiring new grads for
minimum wage. . .because they can, it's just terrible.
No matter what the salary is, fact is you have
to start somewhere and do all you can to get your foot in the
door. You need to create a resume that gets you noticed over the
other applicants. We've created a sample resume and compiled some
resume writing tips
to help get you started.
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