How quickly were you able to find work after EAD?

[SpelaD 4]

im a nurse and of course want to find a job in health care...anyone from orlando area in the same situation?

[Hugglebuggles 60]

My EAD was approved in October of 2009, but I didn't start working until April of 2010.

I didn't start looking until early March of 2010, so it took about 6 weeks once I really started looking.

I was really enjoying being lazy for 6+ months...

[HeatDeath 430]

My EAD was approved in October of 2009, but I didn't start working until April of 2010.

I didn't start looking until early March of 2010, so it took about 6 weeks once I really started looking.

I was really enjoying being lazy for 6+ months...

Similar timeframe: EAD approved in mid-November, started really looking in mid-January, got hired mid-April - so 3 months or so of serious looking - primarily applying for everything I was even vaguely qualified for in the local paper want ads, monster.com, and careerbuilder.com. The job I got was the 3rd place I interviewed.

Big hint: if a place that sounds good reposts their ad, apply again.

[Nik+Heather 121]

Although we got the EAD earlier, Nik really got into gear on the search once the green card was here, so beginning of April, and had a job by mid July, so 3.5 months of actual looking, but more months of unemployment...

[Sal and Liz 0]

It took me a month from when i started looking for a job.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Discuss!

My wife decided she should take a "small job" to acclimate herself to the culture and landed a job the first day she went out to look. No big trick given it was a job working in a Shopping Mall during Christmas season for minimum wage. She was pleased she spoke English well enough to get the job all by herself. (She spoke very good English before I met her) She worked until after the holidays and then they laid her off. Since then she has been a student.

When I was in the hospital, I had a Bosnian roommate and he had an interpretor that came in every day. Alla asked the interpreter about how she could do this and then went downstairs to meet with the woman that handled it. She was immediately offered a contract position which has now expanded to severl other organizations, including USCIS. But she is technically not "employeed" by these people, she is a contractor.

[silvana.toma 15]

My wife decided she should take a "small job" to acclimate herself to the culture and landed a job the first day she went out to look. No big trick given it was a job working in a Shopping Mall during Christmas season for minimum wage. She was pleased she spoke English well enough to get the job all by herself. (She spoke very good English before I met her) She worked until after the holidays and then they laid her off. Since then she has been a student.

When I was in the hospital, I had a Bosnian roommate and he had an interpretor that came in every day. Alla asked the interpreter about how she could do this and then went downstairs to meet with the woman that handled it. She was immediately offered a contract position which has now expanded to severl other organizations, including USCIS. But she is technically not "employeed" by these people, she is a contractor.

Wow...good for her!!

Where do you even find such job? i speak 3 languages, and was thinking to get a translator diploma, but that takes a long time, and a lot of money too.

I'm applying for aos today, and was hoping when i get my EAD card i can start working(it's really boring beeing home all day)

thanks!