Careers Blog

You did it! You survived nursing school, you studied relentlessly to pass the NCLEX, you excelled during your interview and tomorrow is your first day as a nurse! What do you do? How are you feeling? What should you be feeling? No need to fret, we’ve got you covered. In this blog, we’ll share with you some of our tips to help you survive your first year as a nurse.

Whether you’re a nurse who’s just graduated from college or an experienced RN looking for a new job, you know how important it is to make your resume stand out. Yet, it can be difficult to summarize your experiences on a single sheet of paper, or know how to best describe yourself in words. To help, we’ve gathered some of the most impressive nursing resumes we’ve received and combined them to create these examples, complete with tips on what to include and what to leave out.

When I graduated college, my vision was to work for a financial services firm. Many of my friends had already interviewed and received offers from major brokerage houses around the country, but because they were not in the same city as me, and because I was a 22-year-old without much work experience, I knew neither where to start or whom to contact first in my search.

If you’ve ever worked the night shift for five days straight, run a household and attempted to have a life, trying to make time to go back to school may feel impossible. Add college applications and trying to pay school bills, and getting another degree might seem way out of reach.