ASTRO Job Board?

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I just started a new thread on this a few days ago, which was locked.
 
The worst is the spam from that one facility in New Jersey (Livingston I think). You type in 'Radiation Oncologist' and they still show up because they use the same boiler plate description for each and every one of their jobs. I literally have to turn the state of NJ off when trying to evaluate the ASTRO job board. The search criteria at least helps with the spam/fluff.
 
taserlaser said:
Would anyone accept my application without a fellowship? Or should I apply to the MDA janitorial program?
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Tough call. Don’t forget to heavily network near the mop area. Need to hit the cleaner supply area as well.
 
medgator said:
Discussed at the end of this thread ASTRO social media survey

My take: ASTRO social media survey
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I saw that, but it doesn't really answer the question. Did ASTRO start accepting significantly more job listings? The website has become essentially useless for looking for actual radiation oncology jobs. You can search for "radiation oncologist" or "radiation oncology" but you still get junk jobs, and you might miss jobs that have different wording.
 
Guys there are a lot of jobs out there, just hustle and network! You are not looking deep enough in the ASTRO site.
 
Doctorer said:
I saw that, but it doesn't really answer the question. Did ASTRO start accepting significantly more job listings? The website has become essentially useless for looking for actual radiation oncology jobs. You can search for "radiation oncologist" or "radiation oncology" but you still get junk jobs, and you might miss jobs that have different wording.
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I think it I did try to answer it and stated that I think they are taking more non RO related job postings.

The ASTRO site was there a decade ago when I was applying and iirc, it was pretty much all RO physician jobs at that point. Maybe a few physicist positions, and an occasional non RO physician listing. No janitorial, CT tech, per diem nursing jobs back then.
 
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Doctorer said:
I guess I can't switch jobs if I can't even find a job posting to apply for. Maybe my chair's behind this?
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people are saying old white men sitting around a circle, maybe even a threatened species taxodermy hanging nearby, swigging 5000 dollar a fifth japanese whiskey, neat. Plenty of plotting. You may be onto something.
 
scarbrtj said:
Neurosurgery is a smaller specialty than rad onc; about 20% less neurosurgeons than there are of the 5000 rad oncs in the U.S.

So why are there, like, 2000+% more neurosurgery jobs on the neurosurgery job site than rad onc jobs on a rad onc job site.

Stuff like this... weird. Somebody's not bein' honest. And Japanese whiskey is incredible.
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Was talking to a neurosurgery resident the other day. They commented that the number of neurosurgery slots was highly regulated and that it was very difficult for a program to expand. They seemed very pleased with the job security afforded by this.

But it's antitrust if we do it and the feds would be all over us... :thinking:
 
radmonckey said:
Was talking to a neurosurgery resident the other day. They commented that the number of neurosurgery slots was highly regulated and that it was very difficult for a program to expand. They seemed very pleased with the job security afforded by this.

But it's antitrust if we do it and the feds would be all over us... :thinking:
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BK all over that antitrust nonsense. Ha. Funny how their BS makes them look.
 
Places like UCLA paying their chairman 1 million dollars, surely there are also other departments paying Chairs that much. The people in power do not want to have to pay you way more because there are not a lot of you and so it is your market and not theirs. Stanford can continue to offer "thoracic instructor" jobs for ridiculously low amounts of money. This is is only a microcosm of how the market may go if you flood the supply with so many rad oncs that hundreds of people are applying to a middle of nowhere job. Anectdotally, I was being interviewed and was told straight up HUNDREDS of people had applied to a job, even people from "top residencies". The mid-size cities are already getting competitive.
 
neurosurgery residents also get fired during residency
 
I know only of one person in my program years before I started that was asked to leave after many opportunities for remediation. Sounded like a lot of personal problems leaked into the work environment.
 
KHE88 said:
I just started a new thread on this a few days ago, which was locked.
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So I went on vacation and by the time I checked SDN this thread popped up by another user and now has 19 posts.

So by popular demand let's discuss it. Sorry I closed your thread KHE88.

Also, ASTRO hasn't gotten back to me yet on this. I'll poke them again.
 
Neuronix said:
Also, ASTRO hasn't gotten back to me yet on this. I'll poke them again.
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I know I'm an n=1 here but I did use ASTROs site to set up interviews at the ASTRO meeting and beyond a decade ago and I distinctly remember it being a site to post RO physician jobs. It was usually notable when the a dosimetrist or physics job made it on there, and I certainly never remember a CT tech or RN job being posted.

ASTRO can tell you what it wish, but I still believe they have opened the site up, almost too much, just so they can post more jobs and (presumably) make more money
 
They've had these non-rad onc jobs on there for years. I don't know why--maybe a partnership with some other sites or just happy to take the money.

What's different now is that the rad onc jobs used to be first on the list. Only when you scrolled through the rad onc jobs would you get to the non-rad onc stuff. I've seen this happen before where the jobs became sorted only by new. Eventually it reverted to rad onc first, which is why I think this is a website glitch.
 
Neuronix said:
So I went on vacation and by the time I checked SDN this thread popped up by another user and now has 19 posts.

So by popular demand let's discuss it. Sorry I closed your thread KHE88.

Also, ASTRO hasn't gotten back to me yet on this. I'll poke them again.
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You mean SDN isn't your life Neuronix?! For shame, for shame. /s

I saw your closure of the other thread but I feel like this is a different enough issue to allow discussion of.
 
Looks like the board was fixed.

Good job Neuronix
 
Haha who knows. it's been broken like that for at least 2-3 weeks. It could very much be that most people (like I did) assumed that someone else would complain and let ASTRO know, so good on you for actually emailing them.
 
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