For Hospitals

"The first half of my career, I chose to do everything by myself, always feeling overwhelmed." – Dr. K

My Veterinary Career serves practices by offering a unique, cutting-edge, personalized recruiting and career management service. We are not a job posting board. A posting is a passive search, done in hopes that a candidate will apply for the job; My Veterinary Career is proactive.

My Veterinary Career...
...Saves you time. Based on our discussions with veterinarians nation-wide, we learned that when posting a new job, practice managers typically post to numerous sites and spend many hours sifting through resumes, conducting background and reference checks, laboring through phone interviews and then scheduling working interviews.

My Veterinary Career assigns one of our team members to handle the extensive process so that you can devote your time to revenue generating activities while at work and to personal activities at the end of the workday. Please consider these questions before beginning your search for a new associate:

1. It’s difficult finding the right veterinarian, isn’t it? Any idea what you’re up against?

According to the AVMA there are roughly 28,000 Veterinary Practices in the United States, yet the 29 North American Veterinary Schools are only graduating a combined 2,500 students. Of those new veterinarians, you can expect only around 2.5% of those to enter Large Animal Exclusive Practices, 9% to pursue a career in mixed animal medicine and 31% to seek employment with a small animal exclusive practice. The remaining pursue other private practice avenues, academia, industry or government.

2. Are you having a hard time attracting and keeping good team members? Wondering if you’re the only one?

  • Turnover among Veterinarians from 2007 – 2008 was 20 percent, compared to the national average turnover of all industries in the United States of 12 percent to 15 percent, according to the American Animal Hospital Assn.’s updated Compensation & Benefits, fifth edition.
  • Overall average practice turnover was 29.7 percent.
  • Managerial turnover was 13 percent, technical turnover was 35 percent.

3. Think a recruiter is too expensive? What is it costing you to recruit internally?

According to the Veterinary Hospital Managers Association a Veterinarian generates roughly $280 dollars/hour when practicing medicine. That means, for every hour a Veterinarian is not practicing, the Clinic is losing $280 dollars. Veterinarians bring the most value to the practice not when managing or hiring, but when practicing medicine.

My Veterinary Career saves you Money.
The chart below will give you an idea of the cost of internal recruiting:


As the numbers indicate, finding, recruiting, hiring and training new employees affects your bottom-line. And that's assuming the person you hire stays; if not, you my have to start the process all over again. In addition to out-of-pocket costs, turnover itself can cost you 1.5 times the annual cost of an employee’s salary, due to lost time and wasted training, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.

How can My Veterinary Career help?
My Veterinary Career manages all the processes involved in hiring new staff, allowing veterinarians to practice medicine, and practice managers to run the hospital.

The Process:

1. We start with a consultation between a practice’s hiring manager and a member of our team to determine what a clinic expects from a new professional.
2. We create a practice profile that will help both us and candidates understand the practice’s philosophy, culture, quality of medicine, team environment, etc.
3. We conduct a search for a professional who fits your practice. Virtually every organization has one or two team members who management would give anything to replicate. With our assessment tools, a practice owner can identify their top performers, and assist My Veterinary Career in identifying the type of individual who can excel in that particular hospital.
4. We provide weekly updates. One common complaint voiced by practices that have tried recruiting firms is that the clinic owner will go weeks without hearing from the firm. My Veterinary Career speaks with you on a weekly basis, if for no other reason than to check in, update you to our results, and to answer any questions. High-end practices deserve the same level of service they offer to their clients.


Why do practices choose My Veterinary Career?

Why does a 15 doctor, specialty practice, with four partners, grossing millions of dollars a year decide to invest in a Hospital Administrator? Or why does one doctor, mixed animal practice decide to work with My Veterinary Career to find another associate? They do it because the owners realize that by trying to do everything themsleves, they are not devoting the proper amount of attention to anything. Everyone is an expert at something, but steering away from your strengths only increases your weaknesses.

My Veterinary Career devotes its full attention to establishing relationships with veterinary professionals across the world. We commit the time to speaking at conferences, educating veterinary students and technicians, studying what job seekers are looking for and learning where to focus search efforts so that when we sign on with a client, the leg work has already been done.

Best of all, our clients owe us nothing unless we match them with a professional they deem worthy of adding to their team. There is no investment on your part unless we produce results.