In today's world, we strive to find the best career to support our families or even achieve something within ourselves. That's exactly what I did; I chose to be a nurse. Since jobs are scarce, the medical field seems to be getting better and better every day, or so I thought. The demand is so high and yet new graduate nurses cannot find jobs. Why do nurses have trouble finding jobs after graduation? this answer is written in every job notification, they want experienced people. Experience is a huge demand and generalizes what employers want, they want to avoid turnover rates, fill rapidly diminishing positions and need versus demand. Which brings us to catch 22, how can you gain experience without having the opportunity to gain experience? With a high demand for nurses, you would think that new graduates would be able to find employment easily. The idea that is on everyone's mind is that there are so many positions to fill that we are overloading our current nurses. In some states, this is not the case. Most nurses have applied everywhere and when they look at job notifications they are met with a wall of words. These words echo on every page, for each add “No new graduates”. The biggest question is why? Nursing literature reports that inability to handle a busy work environment, advanced medical terminology, and high patient acuity results in new graduate nurse turnover rates of 35% to 50% during the first year of employment (Halfer and Graf 150).With such high staff turnover, it is no wonder that employers are looking for experienced nurses. How can we expect an employer to spend time and effort on a new employee, especially a new nurse, when the shock...... middle of paper..... .to do when he can't find a job because they lack experience and can't gain experience because they can't find a job. There is no way to adequately answer this question with the recession attracting new graduates, lack of experience and decreasing job availability. The only answer available is hope, but hope can only take you so far. Works Cited Bhatt, Sanjay. “Business/Technology”. The Seattle Times. Np, March 10, 2012. Web. November 22, 2013. .Halfer, Diana and Elaine Graf. “Graduate Nurses’ Perceptions of Work Experience.” Nursing Economics 24.3 (2006): 150-155. Print. Krutz, Annalyn. “For nursing jobs, new graduates do not need to apply.” CNNMargent. Cable News Network, January 14, 2013. Web. November 21. 2013. .