Life after residency: how to find a job?

[KlimtOphile]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a fourth year psych resident graduating in July 2014. I am feeling quite overwhelmed and discouraged as I search for jobs ! Can anyone recommend any good online (or other) job resources to help make this process a little easier for me?
I would like to find full or part time work in an outpatient clinic, or student counseling/health center.

Please help!
Klimto

Thank you😕

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[mysteryrunner]

Hi Everyone,

I'm a fourth year psych resident graduating in July 2014. I am feeling quite overwhelmed and discouraged as I search for jobs ! Can anyone recommend any good online (or other) job resources to help make this process a little easier for me?
I would like to find full or part time work in an outpatient clinic, or student counseling/health center.

Please help!
Klimto

Thank you😕

APA's job central might be worth checking out.

ps: your status is still that of a medical student.....

 

[Psychintern2006]

APA's job central might be worth checking out.

ps: your status is still that of a medical student.....

practicelink, psychiatric times(paper edition), psychiatric news, cejkasearch, meritt hawkins(recruiter)

 

[F0nzie]

I found almost all of my jobs here: www.indeed.com. Most of the jobs out there are through word of mouth.

 

[LoveMedicine100]

I found almost all of my jobs here: www.indeed.com. Most of the jobs out there are through word of mouth.

indeed.com ??? are you serious?????

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

I would like to find full or part time work in an outpatient clinic, or student counseling/health center.

Most communities are severely underserved, so you'll probably find places more than willing to accommodate you. It'd be really helpful to put together a list of lifestyle requirements BEFORE you start interviewing: e.g. amount of call you'd consider taking, how many hours per week, caseload, administrative duties v. pt contact hours, etc.

There have been some good threads on here in the past about how to secure your first job out of residency/fellowship.

Best of luck.

 

[kumar28]

honestly there are so many jobs out there im not quite sure how you are having a hard time. Get a recruiter, look them up online (yes indeed is a good resource), be aggressive and start calling places that you are interested in working at..alot of places dont advertise their needs and alot of places have needs. This should be something that even people who want to live in the most desirable cities should be able to do (besides manhattan..that place is supersaturated)

 

[psych2009]

Do attend job fair in the area you want. Sometimes you find something at a place you least expect.

 

[KlimtOphile]

Wow all of your responses have been really helpful thank you so very much !!!!
Are you guys still residents and if not how did you find your current jobs?

 

[Scorcher31]

I've found the posts to be extremely useful as well. Actually, I didn't know about a lot of these resources for the job hunt.

I actually have some job finding questions as well to add to this topic:

I live between a few states and don't want to get licensed in each but would like to compared jobs in each. Is it reasonable to apply for a job, interview and then get a license in that state after or would most jobs not even consider you in that situation?

Is it too early to start applying/interviewing for jobs in July? When is this usually done?

How much of a pressure is there to sign a contract quickly? In other words, If I go on an interview in early November and get offered a contract, but would like to interview at 2 other jobs in December and see their salary/benefits/etc. before committing is this usually possible? I would prefer to get a couple interviews in the same time period for contract negotiation purposes, but this may be easier said than done if you aren't given much time to sign the initial contract.

 

[Shikima]

One method that few people do these days and it does take a bit of extra work - if you have a community in mind, look for the local hospitals (within x miles driving distance) and call the hospital physician recruiter. Often they will have positions which are not posted.

 

[freaker]

I actually have some job finding questions as well to add to this topic:

I live between a few states and don't want to get licensed in each but would like to compared jobs in each. Is it reasonable to apply for a job, interview and then get a license in that state after or would most jobs not even consider you in that situation?

Is it too early to start applying/interviewing for jobs in July? When is this usually done?

How much of a pressure is there to sign a contract quickly? In other words, If I go on an interview in early November and get offered a contract, but would like to interview at 2 other jobs in December and see their salary/benefits/etc. before committing is this usually possible? I would prefer to get a couple interviews in the same time period for contract negotiation purposes, but this may be easier said than done if you aren't given much time to sign the initial contract.

I don't think putting your name out there is too early in July. I've finished all of my job interviews at this point and will be signing a contract in the next few weeks. I'm earlier than most, but I had a list of 3-5 cities where I wanted to land. These weren't major metropolitan areas with lots of options, so it made things easier for me.

I didn't bother with a recruiter. I just did some searching around and found the physician recruitier or the clinical director and just called them up and spoke with them directly on the phone. Over half of my interviews were for positions that weren't advertised anywhere.

If you start early enough and sign-on early enough, it shouldn't matter if you don't have a license to practice, yet. I think Texas may have one of the longest waits to acquire a license, and from what I understand, it's about 6-months. I have exactly zero licenses in the states where I'm considering practicing. No interviewer thought that was a big deal, and only after they were going to offer me a job did they even mention the licensing process.

I haven't really had any people pushing me to sign the dotted line. One thing I do note is that one program did contact me several weeks after interviewing and nudged me that someone else wanted to interview by X-date and asked if I would have a decision made by that point. The thing to remember is that you're the commodity. There are plenty of people looking for psychiatrists.

 

[whopper]

Finding a job depends on a few factors such as where you want to practice and what type of practice you want to be in but in general there is a huge shortage of psychiatrists across the country.

I did know one resident that couldn't find work for some time but that's because he blew. No one in the area that really knew what he was about wanted to hire him. He had to get a head-hunter but pretty much everyone else I knew had offers given to them.

Don't let the above comments reflect specifcally upon you. I don't know your situation. If you want to work in your area, as a resident, you'll likely already know what the places are and you can simply ask them if they're hiring. Otherwise, if you want to move out, call up all the clinical sites in the area where you want to work.