- 12 July 2010
- 4 min read
How to send and then follow up an online nursing job application
SubscribeGet some insight into how an online nursing job board works, how to apply and where your application is sent.
When you apply for nursing vacancies through an online job board, it’s often hard to know where your application has gone and who has received it.
Firstly, and because many people have asked for a simple explanation, the jobs posted on this site are from recruiters and employers that have vacancies to advertise.
That means the vacancies are not within our company, and we don’t have any further details about the role than those posted on the site. Recruiters and employers post as many as details as they chose to, it’s entirely at their discretion how much information they release before you apply.
Obviously we try and encourage them to be really clear and provide all the relevant information prior to candidates applying, but that doesn’t always happen. The vacancy will have been posted by either the recruitment agency appointed by the employer or by the employer themselves.
You can usually tell which of these it is by looking at the company name included in the job title.
First things first – login or register
You’ll find that you get much more from the site if you’re logged in while searching for jobs. If you haven’t done so already, register with the site. If you have, simply enter your login details.
Then go into the jobs section of the site and click search. Select a job sector that’s relevant to your experience, and if nothing else, the location that you want to work in. This will return all the jobs available in that career sector and part of the country.
As you’re looking through the jobs, you can click “shortlist job” at the bottom of each job description. This saves all your selected jobs into one list in your account area.
To view your list simply look to the left of your screen and in the Nurses Sign In box there is a link called “Shortlisted jobs”.
Make sure your details are up to date
You can look at your career profile and the CV you have uploaded at any time by clicking on the “Career profile” link in the Nurses Sign in box. You can view our guide for completing the perfect profile here.
It’s worth keeping this open in a separate window when you’re updating your profile so you can follow each guideline as you’re going through the page.
All of this information is automatically attached with your application when click apply now at the bottom of any job advert on the site. So it’s crucial to check all the information is accurate and fully updated.
About this contributor
Nurses.co.uk Founder
I launched Nurses.co.uk (and subsequently Socialcare.co.uk, Healthjobs.co.uk and Healthcarejobs.ie) in 2008. 500 applications are made every day via our jobs boards, helping to connect hiring organisations recruiting for clinical, medical, care and support roles with specialist jobseekers. Our articles, often created by our own audience, shine a light on the career pathways in healthcare, and give a platform to ideas and opinions around their work and jobs.
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