The internet will provide you with many of nursing school scholarships that are available to both men and woman whom are dreaming of entering the Nursing field; however you still need to do your research.  So plan to spend some time online searching for various grants and scholarships, as well as checking in medical publications, local hospitals, and also with university financial departments.

Probably the best place to start your search for scholarships is at the actual colleges or universities where you plan to go.  Almost every college or university has a toll-free phone number or website that you can start with.  Simply call up the financial department of the school and ask for some assistance in finding existing scholarships or grants that may apply to your needs and financial criteria.

Sometimes the institution only provides this information to people who have been accepted to their programs. If that is the case then you may want to start your search scholarship online.   Avoid companies that make you pay any fees and seek out the free ones. Regardless of your financial situation, nursing school scholarships are available, so stick with it and keep searching and you can make those dreams of nursing come true for you.

 Here are some Nursing School Scholarships resources to start you off (if you have a nursing site with Nursing School Scholarship information then let us know so we can post it here to share with others)

The Canadian Nursing Students’ Association (CNSA)

offers several awards to students at CNSA member schools. Check this link and contact your schools’ Official delegate for more information. http://www.cnsa.ca/english/resources/awards/home.html

StudentAwards.com

A Canadian index of scholarships, bursaries, grants and fellowships that are available for students. http://www.studentawards.com/

Scholarship URL: http://anurseiam.com
Organization: Cherokee Uniforms
Amount: Up to 10 $2,000 scholarships

To make the film “A Nurse I Am” especially rewarding, Cherokee Uniforms is offering up to 10 scholarships of $2,000 each for nursing students who complete an application, submit an essay on the required assignment, and are judged as winners.

To participate, you will need to have watched either version of “A Nurse I Am” – the 32-minute Educational Version or the 62-minute documentary. It is highly recommended that you watch both.

Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFROTC)
Nursing Scholarships
Three- and four-year undergraduate scholarships available to students who want to become Air Force nurses; must be U.S. citizen and high school graduate. Scholarship recipients must enlist as cadets in the Air Force Reserve.
Phone: (866) 423-7682
Web site: www.afrotc.com/scholarships/
Deadline: June 30
Amount: Up to $15,000 a year for tuition/fees, $510 a year for books, plus monthly stipend

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Foundation Scholarship and Grant Program
Offers various scholarships for current AANP members or student members enrolled in an accredited MSN-NP, post-MS NP or doctoral program.
Phone: (623) 376-9467
From Email: foundation@aanp.org
Web site: www.aanpfoundation.org
Deadlines: April and October
Amount: $1,000 (MSN-NP); $1,500 (post-MS NP and doctoral)
Application fee: $10

American Cancer Society
Master’s Degree & Doctoral Degree Scholarships in Cancer Nursing
Phone: (404) 329-7558
Fax: (404) 321-4669
Email: grants@cancer.org
Web site: www.cancer.org
Master’s Degree Deadline: February 1
Doctoral Degree Deadline: October 15
Amount: $10,000 annually for up to two years (master’s);
$15,000 annually for up to four years (doctoral)

American Nephrology Nurses’ Association
Career Mobility Scholarships
Various scholarship opportunities for ANNA members pursuing a BSN or advanced degree in nursing. Must be a current full member of ANNA for at least two years and be currently employed in nephrology nursing.
Phone: (888) 600-2662
Email: anna@ajj.com
Web site: www.annanurse.org
Deadline: October 15
Amount: $2,000 to $2,500, depending on scholarship

Once you have finished writing that power resume and cover letter that clearly defines your abilities and skill sets (or had us write them for you), you will want to ensure that you have it sent out into the real world (getting it off of your desk and into the job market). You need to have it sent to potential employers because obviously this is where your resume and cover letter will be of the most benefit to you. As you will eventually find out there are many different ways to accomplish this task, especially since our technological advanced society provides us with many tools such as mail, email, fax and the internet. However these methods, although very important to your job search can sometimes be impersonal and you will not always know that it has got to the right person. Therefore one of the oldest and better techniques that you should be using is the networking approach.

One of the most powerful ways to network your self towards that new position is through a career fair or at professional conferences. You can often find advertisements for job fairs in most news papers or on the internet and they are often held at local hotels or convention centers. Colleges and universities also often organize career fairs before the school term is about to end to give their students ample opportunities to meet potential employees. Conferences are also a great place to network especially if you are still a student, because most professional organizations allow students to attend them at very low reduced costs.

At a career fair, you may not see any advertisements for a particular job that you would like, but you should not let this bother you, most times employers do not advertise all of their positions or sometimes have openings coming up that are not yet available. Therefore it is still important that you attend and distribute your resume and your business card (see my article on why you should use a business card with your job search) to all potential employers. Remember that it is not only you that will be networking, the employers will also network their findings throughout their departments, maybe with their affiliated companies and possibly just through friends or their own personal network.

Keep in mid that networking opportunities allow you to let potential employers know exactly what you could to be doing for them, and you never know, if you sell your self right then they might offer to create a position that was not available just for you that best suits your skills, or at least agree to let you have an interview. Unlike interviews, networking allows you to have some control over the conversation allowing you to promote your good aspects and perhaps avoiding any weaknesses.

Professional conferences and trade shows usually cater more to companies selling their products but keep in mind that these companies need employees and most times after communicating with them they will either accept your resume or provide you with the contact person of whom to get in touch with. Knowing the correct contact person in a company will allow you to research them further and give you that edge over those that did not have this contact information. Cover letters that have Dear Sir or Madam do not nearly look as appealing as those with the correct contact names on them.

A pretty good resource to help you find professional conferences is Conference Alerts (http://www.conferencealerts.com/) they are a website dedicated to promoting Academic Conferences Worldwide. (Note: they are no way affiliated with this site, but a highly recommended resource).

I highly recommend you consider adding job fairs and job clubs to your arsenal of job-search weapons! Networking was one of the skill sets that I learned to use early on while at University and certainly has done wonders for both my job searching skills and my career in general.

About the Author:

This article has been provided exclusively to JobBoardSites.com website written by T MacKinnon based on knowledge and experience during his career, for more information contact us or refer to his website. (http://tmackinnon.com).

Imagine yourself at a career fair or professional conference and you are making your way through the crowd of
hundreds of other people just like you who are also looking for that next career move, they are all after the
same jobs so you need something that gives you an extra edge over them. Having a business card attached to your
resume can be handy as well, because many employers toss away a resume after reading it once because they end
up being bulky after they have too many. If you have a business card attached to it that attracts their attention
then it can persuade them to tear it off and keep it over your resume for future positions that the employer may
have (because they can always contact you again to get another resume or arrange to meet again).

Another trick that many people do not consider is that you can write a short list of your skills on the back or
a short blurb to what makes you special, so it actually can be like a mini resume, and is especially great for
times when handing out a resume is not an option. Like I mentioned earlier your business cards do not need to be
professionally printed (although it usually is better and often affordable), if you have a quality color printer
and the right software (actually most software that you use to make your resume would do) then you can buy blank
card sheets at a business supply place and make your own.

You can also get them printed professionally online at places such as VistaPrint.com that produce sharp looking
cards at next to nothing prices, in fact you can also get some cards at VistaPrint at no charge. Perhaps you should
try it for yourself if you have any doubts, just follow the following link. It will bring you to a wizard that will
allow you to choose from various business card templates and enter in your contact information. Once you have c
ompleted and previewed your card (making any changes necessary) then you go to the check out where you only need
to pay a small shipping and handling fee. Your cards will then be mailed out to you in less then a week and you too
will be impressed by the professional quality of cards that you will have for next to nothing.

About the Author:

This article has been provided exclusively to
JobBoardSites.com website written by T MacKinnon based on knowledge
and experience during his career, for more information contact us or refer to his website. (http://tmackinnon.com).

More and more people have been turning to the Internet for their everyday common activities including almost everything from reading news to ontaining information and research about local businesses. During this evolving everyday use of the Internet we have saw exponential growth of Internet job board sites from approximately less then a thousand during the early nineties to recently over thirty thousand sites. In fact most people now rely on the Internet as their primary method of job seeking compared to the more traditional methods still available such as newspapers, journals and agencies.

A more recent trend in job board sites or employment search engines is the emergence of the ability to search various sites at the same time. In these cases the web site that the job seeker searches does not search a local database of stored job opportunities but actually searches multiple databases from external web sites and then returns the result to the user all incorporated into one browser. These web sites can provide a one stop site for virtually millions of available jobs, and are also beneficial to the job sites that they search from because they send taliored traffic to these sites, allowing these sites to more effectively use their resources and produce results for thier clients (potential employers).

The expand of the online Job Board Sites and employment search engines has also lead to the creation of niche style web sites for specialized markets such as engineering for example. These sites tend to offer the same great services as the larger more generalized searches but instead they focus their attention on one career field and often do a better job because they usually know what market to target and a user does not need to filter through thousands of jobs that they are not really interested in. For example a Cartographer (person specialized in mapping) may be searching the larger engines and finding it hard to get great results to the vast amount of unrelated jobs, however if the person searches a niche site designed for his career field such as GISjobs.ca then he suddenly has a much better chance of finding what he is really looking for.

The evolution of online job board sites has also led to many great services and are no longer limited to only containing a large list or database of available jobs. Many sites allow a user to generate a profile or enter / upload their resume to the job board site and then have it available to potential employers twenty four hours a day, every day. This way employers can not only post their job ads to the job board site but they can actually search for potential employees as well. So as you see this job finding game can then become a two way street where the job seeker is actively looking for jobs and at the same time potential employers with employment opportunities are also looking for qualified candidates for their job openings.

The majority of job board sites on the Internet have the resume posting option available to job seekers and it is often free because this helps attract employers to post their jobs at these sites. However, should you post your resume to all of the possible online sites or find only a few certain sites? Well that is certainly up to you but you must keep in mind that posting on multiple sites certainly will give you more exposure, thus increasing your chances of getting a great job. There is also a disadvantage to this as you could potentially end up spending all your time posting resumes instead of actually looking for jobs. There are also some web sites such as Resume Rabbit that allow you to post your resume once and they will then post it to multiple career job board sites for you. Saving you time and allowing you to concentrate on the important things instead of spending all of your time entering the same information to every free job board site on the Internet.

Online career sites have also evolved into many other job related services besides posting jobs, posting resumes and job searching such writing custom tailored cover letters and resumes. Our web site originally started off as a free job and resume posting web site like many of the other thousand different sites available but soon realized that there are way too many of these sites crowding the Internet and most them are very low quality and actually do not really help your career out very much all. So we then decided to change the focus of our site and instead of competing with some of the great job posting sites we decided we would provide quality career services that people could use to help them in their job search. Therefore we feel that Job Board Sites web site benefits both job seekers and employers alike as they constantly compete and search for resources eventually fulfilling essentially the same goal.

Our site offers many valuable resource tools such as resume and cover letter writing, reviewing and promoting only sites that we feel are the best career resources available on the Internet, informative articles for resume building and job searching and developing tools that we feel will overall make you better in your search, save you some valuable time, because after all what good are all these online career job board sites if they do not help you reach your career goals?

Our web site is constantly expanding and we are continuing to add great services. We think that with our web site services you will know where all the right tools to help you find that dream job are. If you have your own employment web site and would like us to review your site and feature it on our web site then contact us and we will check it out and if we think it will benefit our viewers then we will promote it and let them all know what we think of it.

AnalyzeMyCareer.com is a website that helps you find the career fiields you are destined for by allowing you to better understand your Career Interests & discover what your real vocation should be. Thier online career assessment products include unique reporting functionality, and have been integrated with a powerful career databases containing over 1500 career descriptions.

How it works
AnalyzeMyCareer.com is a comprehensive set of online apptitude tests available on the web and has been around since January 2000 and they have helped thousands of people whom were interested in finding out more about their careers during that time. The concept for thier website was developed by a team who specialize in career counseling with decades of experience in helping people choose the right career. The goal of thier site is to give visitors an opportunity to discover what their aptitude abilities are and where their real career interests lie. 

They achieve this task by analyzing your occupational interests, the personality type and the aptitude ability. After the tests have been completed,  they will recommended suitable careers to you based on your input and analysis. They also provide detailed information about each career choice that is recommended, including the job outlook and salary expectations.

Go to the AnalyzeMyCareer.com web site to take your own tests or to find out more information for yourself.

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