It’s time for another story of a client of The Doctor Job who had great success after having no luck with physician recruiters.
Dr. A is a male Ob/Gyn in North Carolina
Dr. A graduated from medical school 36 years ago. He practiced in several different areas of the country before spending the last few years in Wisconsin. He did not enjoy it. The weather and the small-town environment was driving him crazy. He yearned to practice in a larger town in a warmer area. Since his grandchildren lived in North Carolina, he decided to try to move there.
Two years go by. He’s called every recruiter in the book. They don’t return his calls. When he manages to actually get one on the phone, they give him excuses about there being no positions for a physician his age. They tell him to consider locum tenens. Dr. A doesn’t want any more transitions. He wants one job that he can work at until he retires, and he wants to be near his grandchildren.
One day, he finds The Doctor Job. He calls, not quite understanding how our services work and expecting that we’ll treat him shabbily like every recruiter out there. To his surprise, we don’t. We explain that there are plenty of jobs in North Carolina – they’re just with groups who refuse to work with the same useless recruiters who wouldn’t help him! He discovers that most employers will not work with recruiters at all, so he’s been wasting his time by even trying to talk to them!
With our help, he sends out 1200 resumes to Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, and other metropolitan areas of North Carolina. Within five days, he has received 10 phone calls from interested employers. Within ten days, he received 23 phone calls. By the end of two weeks, he’s gotten over 30 phone calls or emails from employers who are interested in him. After going on several interviews, he finds a job that is less than 15 miles from his son’s house with a small private group. This group never advertised anything and were surprised to get his resume, but after some consideration, they decided they could use his help.
Without us, Dr. A would still be pining away in Wisconsin thinking that his prospects were non-existent. Luckily, he found us, and we were able to help him find a fulfilling job very easily. Good luck, Dr. A! Enjoy your grandchildren and your new job.
Thank you for posting these examples of success. Please keep on posting them, and I hope more and more physicians will read them and realize their is a great way to get a job or practice just where you want it. Don’t be satisfied with what other have to offer, be active, take charge of your job search, take the initiative and the rewards will be great!
Your Matthias Muenzer, MD