When is it a good time to attempt applying for winter break?

[SeekerofTruth]

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So I have hospital pharmacy experience for this summer. I am not going to stop until like a week before I have to go back to college. I was wondering when is the appropriate time to start trying to find a job for winter break. Like, I don't want to work for free during the winter break and yes I do some work just not as much as the other techs. I learn more when it gets slow (in my evening shifts) since there is no rush.

I also do the work one typically assumes a volunteer would do like filing. I know an intern here that got started there just like I did. I am hoping the independent will be willing to hire me for winter break alone (just that one month).

 

[dxb8307]

So I have hospital pharmacy experience for this summer. I am not going to stop until like a week before I have to go back to college. I was wondering when is the appropriate time to start trying to find a job for winter break. Like, I don't want to work for free during the winter break and yes I do some work just not as much as the other techs. I learn more when it gets slow (in my evening shifts) since there is no rush.

I also do the work one typically assumes a volunteer would do like filing. I know an intern here that got started there just like I did. I am hoping the independent will be willing to hire me for winter break alone (just that one month).

You are lucky you have 1 month off during winter break. My school gives us only 2 weeks and we go back on Jan 2.

 

[triton2010]

honestly, nobody wants to hire someone just for the break. pharmacy employers usually want someone long term like a couple years.

 

[BenJammin]

You are lucky you have 1 month off during winter break. My school gives us only 2 weeks and we go back on Jan 2.

Same with us. A month long break sounds ridiculous.

 

[RedStarRx]

Its going to take you 1 months to really learn the system, maybe longer...can't see anyone getting hired for 1 month, unless you stay with them or have prior experience.

 

[joetrisman]

honestly, nobody wants to hire someone just for the break. pharmacy employers usually want someone long term like a couple years.

+1. Neither of you will get much out of a month. Need to reassess your goals here.

 

[SeekerofTruth]

It takes me 3 hours to get home and I can only come back once a month..and I have to leave early on Sunday so is working one day a month worth more than a whole month full time?

 

[joetrisman]

It takes me 3 hours to get home and I can only come back once a month..and I have to leave early on Sunday so is working one day a month worth more than a whole month full time?

Why not work when you are school?

 

[SeekerofTruth]

because it takes me 3 hours to get home..
also, how will I work during the breaks? I don't understand what to do..

 

[All4MyDaughter]

because it takes me 3 hours to get home..
also, how will I work during the breaks? I don't understand what to do..

He means work somewhere near school.

 

[SeekerofTruth]

because then I doubt I'll be able to work during breaks when I go home. Should I just pick one and deal with it? How have others done it? Did the rest of you go back home once a month to work?

 

[xiphoid2010]

Hospital openings are largely opportunistic, even if there is some cyclic pattern mixed in.

You can get a good feel from whether a hospital will have an internship opening by looking and asking the current residents who are gonna be graduating. Baring any hospital expansion or funding change, the hospital will likely hire interns when the new fiscal funding is determined or the existing ones are gonna be graduating soon. There are summer programs, but those are more of a charity than anything else. It's not cost-effective to hire some intern for the short term, train them only to have them leave.

So I applied in my P1 year, and it took almost 8 months (middle/late spring) to hear back from a major hospital. They tend to do that when the P4s interns are about to graduate and need to be replaced. Although in my case, it was because they were opening up an ED satellite, and added 2 internship positions to cover the weekend shifts. The point is, unless you know what's going on inside, then it's cross your fingers and wait kind of a game.