Blogging with The Doctor Job

Hi, I’m Sean, one of the several client counselors for The Doctor Job. We hear from our clients all the time about success they’re having after using our services, so I’m going to start posting them on a regular basis for your review. Maybe you too can join the ranks of thousands of satisfied physicians who have found a great job!

Dr. P finds an Outpatient job in Chicago

This client we spoke with was a third-year resident graduating from a great program in the Midwest. He was an Internist on an H-1B visa looking for a sponsorship job in the Chicago area. As you can imagine, physician recruiters had been telling him that Chicago was saturated and directed him to positions in Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Kansas. They might have been great jobs, but they weren’t where his wife was, and they weren’t where he wanted to be!

So this client came to The Doctor Job. He had us do the entire mailing, so we prepared 1742 resumes to go in the mail all at once! The letters went in the mail on January 3rd from our Central Florida mailroom. By January 8th, he had received 10 phone calls or emails. By January 16th, he had received 35, and by January 23rd, he had received a total of 62 phone calls or emails from interested employers in Chicago! And not a single one of those employers was advertising for physicians anywhere or using physician recruiters.

He narrowed it down to about 15 places that he was the most interested in and went on a round of interviews about three weeks ago. He was in Chicago for an entire week during his vacation and went on three interviews a day. It was exhausting, but we were here to provide interview counseling and support every night.

All his time and effort paid off. He got offers from 8 different practices, all with contracts that will allow him to get his green card as soon as he’s eligible. The salaries he has been offered are ranging between $125,000 to $195,000, plus bonus, and these are for outpatient-only practices with little to no call!

He was very concerned about using our services in the beginning because he had heard from so many physician recruiters that the Chicago market is closed to physicians or residents looking for clinical jobs. We explained, of course, that recruiters only know about the 10% of employers who are willing to pay their fees. This means that they don’t know about 90% of the market! That’s a huge chunk of the market to make the assumption that a market is “saturated”, don’t you think?

Well, we’ll just say good luck to Dr. P, and I hope he enjoys his career and enjoys working a mile away from his wife. Stay tuned until next time with more success stories!