Hi all,
Hoping the STW massive has some good experiences or advice which may help my partner. She sat her final nursing exam last December, and passed, and recieved her registration in March. However we had our first baby in September 2010 so she has been busy looking after little one, although has been keeping an eye out for jobs since then. She is now actively looking again, and there are absolutley no jobs out there for newly qualified nurses. A lot of her closer friends from the course in Glasgow have had to relocate to England to get any kind of work, but a lot have had no option but to sit it our and try to apply for any roles which come up. She has applied for a few and the most recent, she had experience in the area and actually knows one of the senior nurses in the department. She didnt even get an interview, and the nurse has told her that there were over 200 applicants for this role! So she is going to keep applying, but we are looking for some advice about things she can do to improve her chances of getting to the interview stage.
She has been told that making an appointment to meet with the ward sister and get a tour of the facility would help, and she has done that, but no luck. She is also looking at additional paid courses she can put herself through such as IV etc.
Just to see what advice anyone in this area can give, and any suggestions for additional courses etc would be much appreciated. 
