inactivated in the CVS system and job placement

[pharmacology888]

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I am starting pharmacy school next month and I am currently employed with CVS, but I don't want to work during the school years (I only want to work during my breaks at my home store as I attend school in a different state). For those of you pharmacy students who work for CVS only during the breaks but don't work during the school year, do you know if this is going to affect my chances of placing with CVS in the future because my status will be inactivated in the system when they decide to interview all the current interns at the end of my 5th year/beginning of my 6 th year?

 

[Old Timer]

I am starting pharmacy school next month and I am currently employed with CVS, but I don't want to work during the school years (I only want to work during my breaks at my home store as I attend school in a different state). For those of you pharmacy students who work for CVS only during the breaks but don't work during the school year, do you know if this is going to affect my chances of placing with CVS in the future because my status will be inactivated in the system when they decide to interview all the current interns at the end of my 5th year/beginning of my 6 th year?

The fact that you take a leave of absence will have no effect on you, per se. The trouble is if you cant work one day a week and go to school, you can't be a pharmacist. You need both a school and work experience to survive and that goes for hospital as well.

I urge to work in a pharmacy during school. Retail, hospital, industry, managed care, anything.

 

[bananaface]

I agree that it's dumb not to have any pharmacy experience by the end of P1 and that if someone enters school without experience they should get some FAST. But, if someone has retail experience and wants to work breaks and summer, I have a hard time believing they won't be able to become a pharmacist. It's the people who bury their heads in the sand and don't want to get out that are in trouble. That doesn't seem like the case here.

 

[Pianopooh]

I am starting pharmacy school next month and I am currently employed with CVS, but I don't want to work during the school years (I only want to work during my breaks at my home store as I attend school in a different state). For those of you pharmacy students who work for CVS only during the breaks but don't work during the school year, do you know if this is going to affect my chances of placing with CVS in the future because my status will be inactivated in the system when they decide to interview all the current interns at the end of my 5th year/beginning of my 6 th year?

You become inactivated after 3 months of non-activity with your log-in numbers. From my experience, if your trainer, store pharmacists, and the people you work with deem you as a person of good values and a hard worker with skills that would help the pharmacy out, it doesn't hurt your chances of being placed in CVS now or in the future.