Voluntary/Placement/Trainee Role North-West

Re: Voluntary/Placement/Trainee Role North-West

Gillian Mostyn — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 12:46:50 GMT

[quote user="Tracey Louise"]No shortage of students applying, but good, keen ones are hard to come by.[/quote]

Very difficult to tell from just a CV though.

I guess I sometimes feel guilty about the money people spend on sending me their CV - often including an SAE. Stamps are expensive these days. I do LITERALLY get almost one every day. Even though I run two training practices, we currently have one 1st year SVN at both, as well as a 2nd year degree student. I also have two nursing assistants who are desperate to train next. Thus positions don't come up very often - I also like to think my staff are happy to stay where they are!

As to answering queries - it is what the receptionists are paid for. They don't mind answering someone's question about whether a position is available.

Re: Voluntary/Placement/Trainee Role North-West

Tracey Louise — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:58:50 GMT

[quote user="Vicky SVN"]I would say to send out letters too. If we get people on the phone asking if we have anything I tell them to send us a cv even though we don't currently have a position, as we will keep them on file and get in contact if a job comes up. Good luck

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This is what I do too

As in practice, you never know whats around the corner, you may have no vacancies one day then a month down the line someone has handed in their notice.

Wouldnt want to miss out on a potential great member of staff. No shortage of students applying, but good, keen ones are hard to come by.

Keep posting those letters, dont give up!

Good luck with it all.

Re: Voluntary/Placement/Trainee Role North-West

Vicky RVN — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:58:41 GMT

I would say to send out letters too. If we get people on the phone asking if we have anything I tell them to send us a cv even though we don't currently have a position, as we will keep them on file and get in contact if a job comes up. Good luck

Re: Voluntary/Placement/Trainee Role North-West

Steph Worsley — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:24:11 GMT

[quote user="Gillian Mostyn"]

I know there are limited options for finding a job but...

noooooooooooooooooo

I get a CV almost every day........I am sorry to say they are of limited use unless you manage to hit lucky (which can happen...has done with us once where we received an excellent CV the day after someone resigned....) so may be best to save your postage costs and ring around to see if a position is available first.

I do try to keep decent CVs on file but they can build up somewhat...

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I can see where you are coming from Gillian but I when I was head nurse i would have (personally) hated getting random phone calls asking...do you have a placement, at least with letters/cv's you can read them at your own leisure.

the other thing you could do is speak to charities and see if you can do a bit of voluntary work and then ask them to see if they have copies of vet times/vn times and vet record that you could look at the job sections in during your breaks or photocopy and take home to apply for advertised jobs.

I have known some practices to advertise in the local papers as well

Re: Voluntary/Placement/Trainee Role North-West

Gillian Mostyn — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:11:02 GMT

I know there are limited options for finding a job but...

noooooooooooooooooo

I do try to keep decent CVs on file but they can build up somewhat...

Re: Voluntary/Placement/Trainee Role North-West

Steph Worsley — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:47:41 GMT

have you tried sending out your cv and covering letter to all the training practices within the areas you are willing to travel to? the list should be available from the RCS website