New grad jobs in Maine?
Hi there. I’m posting this because I want to help my partner. She doesn’t know I’m posting this, but I just want to help and I don’t know how.
My partner is a Physician Assistant new grad. She just got back to Maine from living away for the past 2.5 years getting her degree. She loves Maine and has always wanted to work here and give back to the community she loves. She could have easily landed a job right out of school where she got her degree, she in fact had multiple offers, but she wanted to come home and serve her community here.
The insane wait for the Maine board of health licensing aside (still pending, it’s actually ridiculous), she has done everything she needs to do to be an extremely hire-able candidate. BUT, the reason I write this post is that it has been months of applying for jobs, everywhere, not just Portland but all over the southern Maine area, and she hasn’t even received so much as a rejection. No response from anyone. As much as she doesn’t want to admit it, I can tell she is becoming extremely discouraged. Everyone says they’re hurting for healthcare workers, especially physicians and PAs, but she hasn’t had any luck at all, and it’s been months.
My partner has worked so goddamn hard to get here. I know many of you will know this journey. I mean she has had to take the long way around at every step and it’s been so hard to watch, but she comes out on top at the end every time and I’m so proud. We lived apart for the past 2.5 years while she got her degree, she has worked many other healthcare jobs before she went for her degree, including being an EMT. I won’t do her CV any justice on here unless I really get into it, but suffice it to say, she has paid her f-ing dues, she’s brilliant, graduated PA school with a 4.0, and is so charming and determined. She will make a fantastic PA.
If anybody has any advice or leads, or just encouragement, I would love to know how to help her. While I know she would prefer surgery, ER or critical care, I know she will be good wherever she has the chance to prove herself.
PS. She doesn’t know I’m posting here, but I feel so helpless as a partner who is not in the industry, I just want to help.
Thanks for any advice.
TLDR: My Physician Assistant new grad partner is looking for jobs in Maine and getting no responses at all. Any tips, tricks or leads would be greatly appreciated. She’s on all the hiring platforms, they have been useless so far.