The Job Doctor Mailbag is a collection of job- search related questions, emailed to us (JobDoctor@hospitalrecruiting.com), tweeted to us, or sent via our Facebook & Google + pages.
The Job Doctor answers any type of question related to healthcare job searches and healthcare recruiting. The Job Doctor draws from his years of successful recruiting experience and his professional contacts to provide expert and unbiased advice to your job search queries. Send your questions, and he will answer as many as he can. We will edit the questions to remove identifying information and preserve anonymity.
Within the next week HospitalRecruiting.com will be unveiling a regular question and answer column we’re calling “The Job Doctor Mailbag.” We’ll be using this feature to answer questions about job searches, recruiting, job markets, interviewing, submitting applications, or anything else related to healthcare job searches or recruiting. Our experts will answer any job search questions, whether they are broad, highly specific, or personal in nature.
The questions and answers will be published to this blog in an anonymous format; we will be editing out names and other identifying information. The Job Doctor will publish whenever we’ve accumulated enough questions to make a decent sized post, but we’ll send back an answer to anyone who submits a question right away. We don’t want to leave anyone waiting around on our publication schedule before his or her important career questions are answered.
The Job Doctor is a team of experts made up of HospitalRecruiting.com’s co-founders and several other high-level contacts gained through years of working in the physician recruiting and healthcare human resources industries. Our job search advice is based on many years of industry knowledge and experience. Most importantly, The Job Doctor gives truly impartial advice as he is not and will never be your employer, nor is he affiliated with a recruiting company seeking to make a financial gain from placing you into a specific job.
If you are a physician, advanced practitioner, nurse, allied health professional, or a non-clinical healthcare professional, send us your job search questions now because The Job Doctor is open, and the first column will be published next week. Email your questions to JobDoctor@HospitalRecruiting.com or tweet them to us at @HospRecruiting.
Nice idea. I sent in a question about why some of the employers here seem to take so long to respond.
Thanks Jim! We’ll answer your question in the next blog, but I wanted to give you a short answer here. The reason some employers take a long time to respond is,,, it depends. Really, that’s true, and not an attempt at a cop-out. Some of these employers are large corporations, and they might be dealing with large volumes of applicants, or they might just have a slow process. Smaller hiring entities might still have a very democratic process requiring many people’s input before moving a candidate forward. Sometimes the timing just isn’t right for the employer, or sometimes they aren’t interested. Our advice is just to assume the application is moving through the process, and just continue your job search with other options until real signs of interest, of lack thereof, manifest themselves.
Hope that helps, and best of luck with your job search!