Forsyth Open House

Yesterday I went to the Forsyth Medial Center’s New Graduate Open House. It was the first open house I have been able to attend so far. Business attire was required and resumes were strongly encouraged, but the event was not extremely formal. It was mainly a time for new grads to find out about Forsyth’s hiring process, talk with the nurse managers of the departments they are interested in working in, and possibly set up a few interviews.

I was surprised to find other students from my nursing class at GWU there at the event. One of the nurse recruiters opened up the event and went through the hiring process, salary, scholarship opportunities while working, and introduced all the departments that were present. Many of the departments were not currently hiring or scheduling interviews, but all were taking resumes. I spoke with the Med-Surg, and Renal, departments and handed out my resume because they currently did not have any positions open.

I ended up setting up an interview for this Friday with the Cardiac Telemetry Department. At this point, I’m not sure exactly what area I want to work in, so I would really like to have my first job be on a Med-Surg floor where I can see many different diagnosis and use a lot of my skills. But, I figure that interviewing with another department won’t hurt and will give me some interview experience.