Career Fair
Nursing Career Fairs are an excellent way to network with nurses and hospitals throughout the country. Whether you are interested in travel nursing, per diem nursing or just want to find a permanent nursing job near your current location, there are several important tips for preparing your resume, making a great impression and inquiring about facilities for nurse jobs.
- Update your resume and bring plenty of copies to the nursing job fair. Even if you just started your current nurse job six months ago, you’ll want to take a look at your resume to make sure it reflects all of your nursing job history and skills. Be sure to update your references too. Highlight yourself well by adding in any extra education courses or mentoring programs.
- Introduce yourself. Be bold at the nursing job fairs and talk to as many people as you can. Remember, they want to meet you just as much as you want to meet them. Healthcare facilities are looking for qualified and able nurses for the many nurse job opportunities.
- Know who will be attending the nursing job fair. You’ll want to research the different facilities, travel nursing companies and per diem staffing agencies even before the nursing job fair. If you are interested in a travel nursing or per diem nursing, take into consideration if you’d like to work for a small, medium or large travel nursing firm.
- It will impress the employers that you know about their organization, plus you’ll have insightful questions to ask since you already know the basic information about the nurse job.
- Be sure to follow up with all possible employers. Take the business cards you collected during the nurse job fair and make the effort to follow up with each one. It’ll show you’re serious about furthering your career at the potential nurse job, and the employers will appreciate it.
Featured Nurse Job Fairs for 2008:
Access Nurses Career Fair
Summer & Fall 2008
San Diego, California
Contact: Crystal Erlendson cerlendson@accessnurses.com
Star-Telegram Nursing Job Fair
October 28, 2008
Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum, Fort Worth, Texas
Contact: Lori Dreier ldreier@star-telegram.com
Michigan Organization of Nurse Executives
2008 Celebration & Fall Conference
November 12 - 13, 2008
Kellogg Center, East Lansing, Michigan
http://www.mone.org
Nursing Career Fair
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms, Indiana
Contact: Susan Kauffman kauffmas@purdue.edu
