The 45 days, and telling the manager who was holding my start date
Jesse after the retakeThe question
Somebody messaged me about this last week and I gave a worse answer than the question deserved, so I'm putting it here properly.
I didn't pass in March. The studying wasn't the hard part and neither was the shame, and I'd braced for both. It was the email to the manager who had offered me a job with a start date in it, and I sat on that email for four days.
What I sent was three sentences: I didn't pass, my next date is this, I'd still like the position if you can hold it. They held it.
For anyone who's been here: did you tell the employer straight away or wait until you had the new date? And has anyone had an offer pulled over it? I'd rather this thread carried both answers.
The conversation
2 repliesOne piece of the timing is fixed, and it's worth having in front of you before you write to anybody. The national retake policy sets 45 test-free days between attempts, and the sequence is: tell your state nursing regulatory body you intend to retake, re-register with Pearson and pay the fee again, then wait for the new authorization to test. Some states set a longer wait or cap the attempts allowed in a year, so the state's own page governs the date you can name.
That date is the useful thing to put in the email. A manager can hold a requisition against a date. Holding one against an open question is much harder, and the difference between those two messages is one sentence with a date in it.
- Sam studying lateTest date set, still in it
Reading this before I sit mine, which is either useful or a bad idea and I can't tell which yet.
The thing I'm taking from it is that the email can exist before you need it. It would never have occurred to me to draft one in advance, and I'm going to, because the version of me who needs it isn't going to be able to write three clean sentences.
What would you tell them?
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