How to Find Permanent Physician Jobs Tips

Use A Locum As A Stepping Stone

Even if you are ultimately seeking a permanent physician job, a locum tenens position is often a convenient job for a physician. You can continue to earn money and build your clinical skills while you look for the right full-time position. And you can use a locum tenens job to test out a type of practice or hospital size before committing to a full-time job in that type of environment.

Physician recruiting companies that work with employers to staff both permanent and locum tenens positions can help you identify physician job postings that meet both your short-term and long-term needs.

Short-term: Do you need a locum tenens job where you live now, so your kids can finish the semester at the same school, before you move on to your next permanent job in a new location? A specialized physician staffing agency can help.

Long-term: Are you ready to make a change in your permanent job? Physician staffing consultants can narrow down full-time options that meet your needs for salary, location and hours.

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Have A Hassle-Free Job Change

When you are ready to make a change in your physician job, you can waste a lot of time by scrolling through physician job postings. Especially during stressful economic times, it can be tempting to jump at the first physician jobs available. But these might not be the best jobs for you, and you could find yourself job hunting again in a few months.

Instead, consider working with physician placement services. A physician staffing consultant who knows your specialty can identify pre-screened jobs that meet your personal and professional criteria.

When you talk with your consultant, be as clear as possible about the type of setting in which you'd like to work and the type of work you'd like to do. If you are flexible, be sure that your staffing consultant knows how flexible you are. For example, are you willing to relocate? Do you only want to work in large hospitals?

If you can provide this information to a physician staffing consultant, he or she can do the legwork and quickly identify the best jobs for you.

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Resume 101

The first step to landing the right permanent physician job is an eye-catching resume. Whether it has been two years or 20 years since your last physician job search, the same resume rules apply.

To get your resume in good shape, follow these simple rules:

• Be brief: Keep your resume to one page. It's hard, but try (definitely no more than two pages!). Remember that you don't need to put every job you have ever had—focus on the jobs that are relevant to the job you're seeking.

• Accentuate the positive: Use active verbs to highlight the key tasks you have performed in different jobs, and include leadership positions.

• Emphasize results: Without being too wordy, describe your experience in terms of results. For example, did you improve the quality of care at your hospital by participating in a protocol that reduced medical errors? Say so.

• Start with the present: Top your resume with your most recent job and work backwards.

For physicians seeking employment, physician placement services can match the skills on your resume with physician job openings.

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Twitterpated: Job Searches Via Twitter

What is Twitter, and how can it help you find a permanent physician job? For the uninitiated, Twitter is a social networking website similar to a blog, but your updates are limited to 140 characters. Once you get used to it, Twitter can be another useful way to network with other professionals in your field.

From a professional job search standpoint, Twitter can be used in conjunction with LinkedIn or Facebook. And you can use your Twitter account to get a sense of the news at hospitals where you would like to work by following updates (“tweets”) from the growing number of hospital accounts. If you have a Twitter account or you are about to create one, search for “HospitalGroup” and follow it.

Twitter is not necessarily your only resource for physician job listings, but it can be one of many weapons in your physician job search arsenal. And increasing numbers of physician recruiting companies are using Twitter for physician job postings.

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Finding Success In Your Physician Job

How do you define success in your career? This is an important question when you are looking for a permanent physician job. Some physicians define success by how much money they make, while others are more concerned with job satisfaction and having a personal relationship with patients. For most physicians, career satisfaction is a combination of many factors, including:

• Making enough money to support your lifestyle, whatever that may be. Your financial needs will change over time, and times when you need more or less money may motivate you to move to a new permanent physician job or to a part-time job.

• Treating patients in your specialty. If you became a pediatric oncologist so you could make a difference in the lives of kids with cancer, then finding the right hospital setting that lets you do the work that means most to you is essential for career satisfaction.

If you are at a turning point in your medical career, physician placement services can help you identify the right physician job openings that will provide the satisfaction you want, both financially and otherwise.

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Downsized? Don't Despair

You may have loved your permanent physician job, but if your hospital recently downsized, you may be searching for a new position. Although losing your job is traumatic, think of it as an opportunity to take your career in a new direction. Ask yourself some questions about what you liked and didn't like about your most recent job:

• Patients: Do you like your endocrinology specialty, but you're burned out by treating adults? Would you like to refocus your career to care for children?

• Colleagues: Would you like to become a partner in a small practice group of colleagues who share your medical philosophy?

• Setting: Would you like to move closer to family, so your children can spend more time with their grandparents?

Physician recruiting companies can make your physician job search easier. Talk to a staffing consultant about the things that matter most to you, and he or she can help you find the best job from the physician job openings that match your preferences.

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