Experience with LinkedIn?

[AD04]

I was speaking to my good friend the other day. He is graduating from a name-brand residency in another specialty and wanted me to guide him through the negotiation process for his various job offers. During our talk, he spoke about how he got his current job in a start-up due to posting his information on LinkedIn. Granted, he has a unique background and doesn't just do medicine.

I like my current job. During the few days in a month I am not working, I am getting bored. I can always ask for more clinical work, but I would like to use that time to learn something new. I would like to work very part-time doing something non-clinical, which can but doesn't have to be related to medicine. I gravitating to something in another industry, like technology or biotech. The pay won't compare to clinical medicine, but I enjoy challenges and breaking into a new field.

Do any of you have experience with LinkedIn? If so, what was your experience? Did you get a job through it?

Any of you have experience doing work outside of clinical medicine as a physician? How did you find that?

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[splik]

It is obviously low yield, but it is also low effort. It is perfectly reasonable to have a LinkedIn profile for this purpose. You want to design it with this mind and identify the kinds of opportunities you are looking for. Don't be surprised if mainly hear from physician recruiters...

 

[robellis]

I was speaking to my good friend the other day. He is graduating from a name-brand residency in another specialty and wanted me to guide him through the negotiation process for his various job offers. During our talk, he spoke about how he got his current job in a start-up due to posting his information on LinkedIn. Granted, he has a unique background and doesn't just do medicine.

I like my current job. During the few days in a month I am not working, I am getting bored. I can always ask for more clinical work, but I would like to use that time to learn something new. I would like to work very part-time doing something non-clinical, which can but doesn't have to be related to medicine. I gravitating to something in another industry, like technology or biotech. The pay won't compare to clinical medicine, but I enjoy challenges and breaking into a new field.

Do any of you have experience with LinkedIn? If so, what was your experience? Did you get a job through it?

Any of you have experience doing work outside of clinical medicine as a physician? How did you find that?

Few days per month and you’re getting bored? Off the top of my head: find a hobby, spend time with kids, spend time with wife, spend time with family, those experiences will probably be much more valuable than extra money you get from another opportunity

 

[erg923]

During the few days in a month I am not working, I am getting bored.

Go on a date, man! Geez.

 

[calvnandhobbs68]

It is obviously low yield, but it is also low effort. It is perfectly reasonable to have a LinkedIn profile for this purpose. You want to design it with this mind and identify the kinds of opportunities you are looking for. Don't be surprised if mainly hear from physician recruiters...

Yeah I find linkedin to be pretty low yield too. I think if you make a bunch of real connections (like people you meet in real life through business) it might be more productive, my friends in business/engineering have pretty active linkedin profiles. I mostly just end up getting messages from recruiters and requests to connect from random people I know lol.

 

[FlowRate]

I have some additional skills that are relevant to predictive analytics and connected with the CEO of a startup being spun up by a larger company recently. Unfortunately with my current job I don't have much time to put toward something like that and/or would have to get approval to take on work outside the company and cut down my FTE, so it didn't go anywhere. Just an anecdote that sometimes you do get connections like your friend mentioned.

 

[AD04]

I'll give LinkedIn a try. What's the risk.

Few days per month and you’re getting bored? Off the top of my head: find a hobby, spend time with kids, spend time with wife, spend time with family, those experiences will probably be much more valuable than extra money you get from another opportunity

What if my hobby is trying new things and trying to get better and better? My view of having kids and wife is non-PC.

Go on a date, man! Geez.

After 20 years of dating, it gets boring.

 

[robellis]

I'll give LinkedIn a try. What's the risk.



What if my hobby is trying new things and trying to get better and better? My view of having kids and wife is non-PC.



After 20 years of dating, it gets boring.

Non-pc? Haha that sounds interesting

 

[kopftonmd]

What if my hobby is trying new things and trying to get better and better? My view of having kids and wife is non-PC.

After 20 years of dating, it gets boring.

Clearly you need to pick up knitting. Or gardening. Or start a heavy metal band!

 

[dl2dp2]

If you are interested in getting into [mental health] tech, the best way is to have one on one meetings rather than LinkedIn. Do some internet research in this area, prepare a resume in a certain direction, and then just reach out directly to the management teams of the relevant entities and people within your relevant existing network.

It's easy to get into this especially if you have a low demand for salary. People have a very high demand for physicians but usually can't pay well. Then it becomes this very time consuming process -- you are in essence working like a one-man VC shop that invests in a portfolio company via sweat equity. I actually find this type of work unattractive (i.e. explaining over and over the basics of how mental health care works to a fairly heterogeneous team of tech founders and investors) -- your mileage may vary.

 

[AD04]

If you are interested in getting into [mental health] tech, the best way is to have one on one meetings rather than LinkedIn. Do some internet research in this area, prepare a resume in a certain direction, and then just reach out directly to the management teams of the relevant entities and people within your relevant existing network.

It's easy to get into this especially if you have a low demand for salary. People have a very high demand for physicians but usually can't pay well. Then it becomes this very time consuming process -- you are in essence working like a one-man VC shop that invests in a portfolio company via sweat equity. I actually find this type of work unattractive (i.e. explaining over and over the basics of how mental health care works to a fairly heterogeneous team of tech founders and investors) -- your mileage may vary.

I'm not even sure what's out there. I don't know anyone who does this. Any good sources on what's being done in [mental health] tech field?

 

[dl2dp2]

I'm not even sure what's out there. I don't know anyone who does this. Any good sources on what's being done in [mental health] tech field?

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