For Practices

"Working with My Veterinary Career has been an incredibly positive experience for us. In the last two years they have found us three wonderful employees (a veterinarian and two licensed technicians). I have no hesitation in calling them when our staffing needs change, as they have exhibited an uncanny ability to find just the right person for our hospital. I cannot begin to express how grateful I am for the time, effort, and money they have saved us in the interviewing and hiring procress." —Kay LeVan, practice coordinator, Troy Animal Hospital and Bird Clinic (AAHA accredited), Troy, Ohio

Save Time
Through our discussions with veterinarians nationwide, we have 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 finally scheduling working interviews.

My Veterinary Career assigns one of our team members to handle this 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. Instead of drowning you with resumes of unqualified applicants, your MVC matchmaker will submit only the best candidate, based on the profile you helped us build. 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? What is the cost of a bad hire? According to the U.S. Department of Labor, it costs a practice up to two times an employee’s annual salary to replace them. If an average associate salary is $70,000, it could cost you up to $140,000 just to replace them. 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.


As the numbers indicate, finding, recruiting, hiring, and training new employees affects your bottom-line. And that's assuming the person you hire stays—and in general practices there is a 30% chance they won’t.

How can My Veterinary Career help?
MVC operates under the belief that we have a responsibility to revolutionize the hiring process in veterinary medicine. We approach this through our multi-step matchmaking method geared toward finding the right veterinarian, manager, or technician for a practice. Our entire process costs nothing for a practice until a match is made, and then that match is guaranteed for six months.


How it works
  1. Prior to agreeing to represent a new practice, we sit down with the owner or manager to create a comprehensive practice profile, helping us to better understand all aspects of the practice. We also want to ensure that the practice offers a suitable opportunity for a new team member. If any issues are identified, MVC will assist the practice owner in remedying them whether they are HR related, financial, or client-service oriented.
  2. The screening of candidates begins with an initial pool of candidates, pulled by six matchmakers from all over the country. We begin culling candidates via a four-step interview process with our team and include written and oral interviews and reference checks.
  3. Credit and criminal background checks are performed on each candidate at your request.
  4. A compatibility assessment tool is used following the interviews between the practice and the candidate as one more step in our efforts to make the right match. Coaching on how to utilize the assessment’s results are provided, at no charge, for AAHA-accredited and member practices.

Why do Practices Choose to work with My Veterinary Career?
Our clients range from 40-doctor specialty practices to one-doctor rural, mixed animal practices. Regardless of our client’s size, location, or medical focus, they choose to work with MVC because the owners realize that by trying to do everything themselves, they are not devoting the proper amount of attention to anything in the practice. 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 North America. 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 legwork has already been done

Proven success
MVC has been extremely successful at matching the right professionals with the right practices—98% of their matches are successful. The normal turnover for the veterinary industry is more than 30% per year; MVC’s is 2%.

MVC offers a six-month guarantee. If the veterinary professional we place leaves your practice for any reason during the first six months, we will replace him/her with another professional of your choice at no charge.



If your practice chooses to use MVC, there is an 80% chance that the veterinary professional you decide to hire at the end of your interviewing process will be a veterinary professional MVC introduces to you—the veterinary professional with only a 2% chance of turnover, a reputable background, a six-month guarantee, and a personality assessment to match your practice. If you choose to work with MVC but don’t hire our candidate, you don’t owe us a penny.