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…
Becoming A Relief Locum Vet – 8 Essential 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…
9 Essential Steps To Boosting Your Vet Nurse Career
We asked some of the leading Vet Nurses around the world who have achieved personal, professional and financial success, what are some of the key steps for you to consider – it may come as a surprise to you, but the very best specialist Vet Nurses or Technicians earn a six-figure income. Here are 9 essential steps to put you on a similar trajectory…
Are you telling stories?
In this era of unusual supply and demand for Veterinary team members, if you want the best then it’s time to become the greatest storyteller out there. In today’s attention-span-challenged world, if your Job Campaign does not attract, engage and draw readers or viewers into your story in the first 3 seconds then you have failed – and having captured their attention you must keep their interest right to the very end. And if you are a Job Seeker, you will want to know your new employer’s story too. Find out how and why…
Veterinary Work-Life Balance – Making The Myth A Reality
You were drawn in to being a Veterinary and Pet Care professional because you have an innate desire to help others. And you aspire to make life better by providing a great quality of life for our pets. While your motivation is noble, and to be admired, your passion also sets you up for Work-Life Balance issues. Here are some practical tips to help you get started on establishing your own Work-Life Balance.