How to get a new job

[Dr Magpie]

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I'm posting on behalf of my husband. Basically-
-late 40s, graduated from a top five pharmacy school 7 years ago with a good GPA... had an unrelated but successful career prior to pharm school
-become a retail pharmacy manager (I was in school and we needed the $) and was successful at this for a few years
-took a mail order job and did well there but had it less than a year because we moved out of state
-was unemployed for several months, worked in a LTC pharmacy for a few months through a staffing agency, finally landed a job at a compounding pharmacy, which he likes, but wants to go part time and this is not an option there.
Every job posting requires experience or a residency... staring down the barrel of 50 years old with a family, this is not a thrilling proposition. He's willing to do some interning, or work for lower pay as a trainee perhaps, to find some sort of non-retail pharmacy job that would allow part time, daytime work. (My call schedule + kids will not allow him to have a job with much in the way of evenings/weekends.)
He's considered adding a certification like certified diabetes educator or similar, but many of these types of programs require experience in that field to get the certification. No one will give him a job to GET the experience... but all the jobs require it.
Are there self-study programs for certifications that could be useful? Other ideas? We live in a large city but it is saturated with residency trained pharmacists.
Help! And thanks in advance for suggestions.

 

[zelman]

What kind of job does he want?

 

[BMBiology]

I will be honest with you. His age is hurting him. Age discrimination is widespread in this profession. I have interviewed pharmacists before and usually someone would point to the year the candidate graduated from college (hint: he is old). The fact that he has multiple jobs doesn't help either. It just reinforces the notion that he didn't do a good job.

If I were him, I would do any job even per diem. That is a good way for him to get his foot in the door. He has to prove himself to the company. Look for big companies so there would be opportunities down the line.

 

[Dr Magpie]

He is honestly open to (almost) any kind of job other than retail. Predictable, daytime, weekday hours are the biggest must because of my call schedule. He likes compounding, sort of liked mail order, maybe home infusion, hospital, honestly he knows he's limited already due to needing "good hours" so is pretty open.

I am sad to hear your comments about age discrimination although I had wondered about this.

 

[PumpkinSmasher]

Hospital and amb care are unlikely given lack of direct experience, residency and hour requirements. Would not waste his time. Best bet is probably compounding pharmacy since he has experience, go around to every compounding pharmacy in town and drop off CV and chat up the owner. There are so few daytime/no weekend jobs in pharmacy and the ones that do exist often require residency and experience especially in major metro area. could also look into government pharmacy jobs if any in your city: county health dept, state psych hospital, board of pharmacy, etc

 

[cozypark]

I don't know where you are living but job market is really bad.
The only job posting I see is retail, or night time.
Your preferece - only daytime, part-time, no weekends - makes finding a job extra hard because that shift is everyone wants and it usually goes to someone with high seniority.

Good luck.

 

[M0df]

Compounding would be my unicorn job, so I'm biased. Your husband worked 4 jobs in 7 years in almost every possible non-hospital setting. I think you guys know what it takes to find a new job. If his compounding place will not let him go part time, he should find a different compounding pharmacy that would. The sacrifices he would need to make to get what he wants just might be too much.

 

[Dred Pirate]

it is rare to find a job with a set schedule, I work in hospital and other than a manager - there are like 2 people that have those hours.

We have hired 2 people over the age of 50 recently, and 3 others in their 40's - and we are a "desirable" place - so age isn't an issue everywhere.

Like others said, hospital is likely out of the question unless he can find some niche job - we did hire a former chain district manager to do pyxis stuff exclusively, so there is a possibility, but unlikely.

I would stick to LTC/compounding jobs - LTC is likely the most regular hours - other than being on call.