So you’ve recently started that professional veterinary career you worked so hard to achieve. You expected it would be a tough road getting there, but you persisted and you’ve made it – congratulations! What you hadn’t anticipated was how many years into the future you might still be paying the price of entry. You are not alone. Student loan debt is now the second highest consumer debt category, the first being mortgage debt. Here are some essential tips to help you successfully manage your Veterinary student debt…
9 Tips For Overcoming Vet Nurse Burnout
Research indicates that over 25% of workers report being high levels of burnout as a result of their jobs. And the field of veterinary medicine is not immune to this trend. Vet Nurses, in particular, are subject to burnout as a result of the daily stressors you face. Failure to address this burnout can lead to serious problems such as depression, stroke, and other serious health complications. Fortunately, there are some simple measures that you, your work mates and your hospital or clinic can take to recognize, prevent or manage the symptoms of burnout. Here are nine tips for us all to consider to prevent or overcome burnout…
Join Our Regional Social Media Groups
We created these regional Facebook and LinkedIn and other Social Media Groups to help you share job opportunities, work availability and locum gigs in a more structured way – open to everyone, job seekers, employers and recruiters – join up now!
Emotional Wellbeing For Veterinary Professionals
Improving your wellbeing is not as simple as taking a week long holiday at a health spa, or simply getting more exercise and improving your diet. Though all of these are important to Veterinary Wellbeing (and we’d like to justify our own annual spa retreats too), stress management and mental health care require fundamental changes to our daily lives. Remember that you deserve to nurture yourself to the same degree that you look after your patients. How do you cope when you’re finally, absolutely at the end of your tether? Here are some essential first steps…
7 Tips To Kick Start Your Brand New Veterinary Career
Your first year as a brand new veterinary professional can be a bit like a roller coaster with many ups and downs, and it all can seem a little intimidating at first. You may be feeling too overwhelmed to be planning what your next steps should be, but thankfully there are many kind and helpful fellow industry professionals and remarkable resources that you can call on to ease you through the transition. So, to assist you on your journey, here are a few essential early veterinary career tips…
5 Ways To Satisfy Your Travel Bug & Your Veterinary Career
Caring for animals as a Veterinary professional and traveling abroad are no longer mutually exclusive activities. Here are five ways to combine your sense of wanderlust whilst also advancing and diversifying your Veterinary career.
Social Media Now A Key Driver For Your Veterinary Career
Sometimes changing jobs is inevitable. There are a myriad of reasons – your partner may have secured an opportunity of a lifetime elsewhere, you may need to move a little closer to family as they need extra care or you decide that now is the time to step up, move ahead in your career and changing jobs is the most viable option. So, having made the big decision, it’s now time to start working on your Social Media Veterinary Career Strategy…
Locum Vets – 8 Essential Relief Veterinarian Tips
So, you want a life in which you can pick and choose when and where you work – you want to be a Locum or Relief Vet. You may want to travel, spend more time with your kids and family or start a research project. Whatever the reason, all that is possible if you’re a Locum or Relief Veterinary professional. Here are some handy tips to get you started…
Veterinary Salary Guide – How To Negotiate A Salary Review
So, unless you have been hiding under a warming blanket for the last few years, you know that your services as a Veterinary Professional are in high demand now, and that demand is only going to increase over the coming few years…but before you head out for an innocent coffee with that recruitment consultant who has been so persuasively persistent of late, the best first step is to have “that chat” with your current boss…