Is anyone offering relocation $ in this economy? (employees, interview, unemployment)

[Liza54]

I'm a nurse and definitely assumed I'd get relocation if not covered, at least shared.
However, I'm finding more and more places either saying 'they don't do that' or offering almost nothing.
How can you convince them it's worth spending- I didn't count on moving myself!

[annerk]

At one point some of the hospitals in the Orlando area were offering a signing bonus, but none of them were ever offering actual relo expenses. Not sure I've ever heard of any place offering them for nursing.

As far as "worth spending," why are you worth anything mroe than another RN? What specialty can you bring to the table? If you can't give an answer that will prove your value to the bottom line, don't expect anything that they wouldn't offer someone local.

[iarch]

I haven't see it, not in the last 2 years.
Last year, an interview went "south" when I brought up relocation.

I see too many "local candidates only"

I wish you luck!

[glastron_79]

My company reimburses relo and out of town interview expenses (even to those not hired.)

[mike69]

you have to pay out to travel to meet them. It's local's only in most places.

[Mrs. P]

Originally Posted by Liza54

I'm a nurse and definitely assumed I'd get relocation if not covered, at least shared.
However, I'm finding more and more places either saying 'they don't do that' or offering almost nothing.
How can you convince them it's worth spending- I didn't count on moving myself!

No offense Liza but why would you assume you would get relo over so many other people in the US traveling or getting jobs in other states?

I'm not sure about all areas of the US, but two areas I know of in two different states are laying nurses off. I'm not so sure nursing is a guaranteed job anywhere and everywhere anymore.

[killer2021]

I've never seen a company offer relocation benefits. I just considered it the norm that companies don't offer it.

[annerk]

Companies DO offer benefits for certain jobs. Generally they offer them when they recruit executive level people. In times where unemployment is low they use them to recruit employees with speciality skills when they are unable to find them in the local market.

Some companies continue to recruit non-local employees, and continue to pay relo bonuses. The one job type that seems to continue to get recruited this way is specific types of engineers.

As mentioined in an earlier post, this are used to pay signing bonuses to nurses with specific skills (experienced trauma and flight being two that I'm aware of) although that has all but stopped. I imagine certain medically underserved remote locations in very rural areas are still paying relo and maybe even signing bonuses for BS RN's as well as nurse practitioners and nurse midwives.

[Northman]

Most companies......in the medical field, anyway........consider a sign on bonus the equivalent of relocation funds. I got bonuses for accepting my last 2 jobs, which I paid my moving expenses out of.

The only bonuses or relocation assistance I see offered anymore come from places that are very remote or ones that have high turnover rates. Most companies that give bonuses make you sign a contract which states you'll either commit to work there for a certain time, or pay the bonus back if you leave before that time expires.

Even when things were better 4 or 5 years back many companies wanted nothing to do with moving someone. I had a great job lined up in Seattle, and was certain I was on my way out there after the first 2 interviews. Then I asked about relocation assistance, and the next day I got a phone call saying they'd filled the position.

[Greyhnd]

Most of the jobs I have looked at on LinkedIn state "local candidates only - no relocation".