Giving Your CV to a CMG

[alphaholic06]

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Is there any downside to this? I know giving it to a headhunter can cost you your sign-on bonus, but what about giving to a recruiter for emcare, teamhealth or the like?

 

[tkim]

I wouldn't. Spam emails and phone calls from the CMG recruiters. Still. After three years.

The first thing you should decide is where you want to live/work. Then look at the hospitals in that area and figure out which ones you would like to work at, then figure out who works there - CMG, democratic group, IC. Find out who to contact and go from there.

 

[Arcan57]

Is there any downside to this? I know giving it to a headhunter can cost you your sign-on bonus, but what about giving to a recruiter for emcare, teamhealth or the like?

Company recruiters for CMGs are paid by the company and are figured into the overall amount of money the CMG skims off your RVUs if you go to work for the CMG. As such, you're not going to lose a signing bonus by talking with them since it's expected that pretty much any doc that lands with the CMG is going to have gone through that region's recruiter. Most CMG will actually pay non-recruiters physicians who refer a doc that signs a contract but these tend to be significantly smaller (<$5k) payments than what freelance recruiters get.

 

[HunterGatherer]

Company recruiters for CMGs are paid by the company and are figured into the overall amount of money the CMG skims off your RVUs if you go to work for the CMG. As such, you're not going to lose a signing bonus by talking with them since it's expected that pretty much any doc that lands with the CMG is going to have gone through that region's recruiter. Most CMG will actually pay non-recruiters physicians who refer a doc that signs a contract but these tend to be significantly smaller (<$5k) payments than what freelance recruiters get.

I was actually concerned about this myself.


As for giving out my info I setup a Google voice phone number and email address to give recruiters. Only gave my number to 2 CMG recruiters so far though.