Hubby will start his residency next year. We don't know where and won't know for a while. I want to be as pre-emptive as possible re. finding a job after we move. I plan on contacting his school to see if there are any supports for spouses and job hunts.
Currently I'm an admin. assistant. I'm sure I can find work doing this, but I want to try to get closer to what I want to do which is autism support. I'm going back to school, but won't be able to apply to a nursing program till we know where we're going. I'm working on the pre-requisites now.
Any thoughts on how to look for a job long-distance? Or how to see if your social network might be able to help? Or is this a "you'll need to wait till you get there" situation?
Thanks for your input!
P.,
I wouldn't do anything until you knew for certain where you were going to wind up.
For autism support? I would go to https://www.autismspeaks.org/ and tell them what you want to do and ask them who is hiring and what is needed.
If you want to start out as admin until you have your family grounded at your next stop? I would look at bigger companies websites and see what is going on. LinkedIn. Monster posts jobs as well.
Good luck!
There is no sense in looking if you don't know where you are going to live. You focus on the here and now and finish up what you can prior to your move.
When you get your orders or assignment to the hospital, then you start looking. Start with a google search on jobs in the area, then start narrowing it down.
keep your grades up and focus in that. don't worry about finding something till you know where your going. and make sure your classes and credits will transfer... some schools don't recognize credits from other schools.
I'm not saying I support this or have experience with it, but I do have a close friend who is very involved with autism support. She is an RDI consultant and works directly with families and speaks very highly of the program. RDI.com/professionals/ is the website. There are online courses that she took, and then she did her supervised internship. There's more to the process, I'm sure, but it might be something you can do now while you're waiting to find out where you're going to move to.
Unless you have some skill that's highly prized you'll be better off seeing what's out there via web sites and then job hunting once you move.
I think you have this thought out already. You have no idea if you'll be in California or New York or Alaska. So you literally cannot plan ahead other than to continue your education as much as possible.
Congratulations on his residency. I hope you get to move to a wonderful area that you will grow and thrive for the years to come.
I think you really have to wait until you know where you're going. I can't imagine looking EVERYWHERE but not being able to work ANYWHERE. So once you know, start looking online for companies in that area and find what they have. Reach out directly to HR managers and see what positions they have or what connections they have. Check out the school systems, they may have jobs in your field.
