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Pharmacist demand ??
Started by Garfield88
The Occupational Outlook Handbook will tell you about job growth/decline for all major occupations in the United States. It also has information on salaries.
http://www.bls.gov/search/ooh.asp?ct=OOH
http://www.bls.gov/search/ooh.asp?ct=OOH
the demand for pharmacists is incredible, and prospects are great for the next 20 years or more. only problem is to get in, because everyone knows that already.
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I know that NJ is saturated and its nearly impossible to get a job (unless you willing to work midnight). NYC is really bad as well...but not as bad as NJ.
A handful of 6th year students I know are very stressed about the job prospects in NY. Things have definitly changed for the worse. Hopefully an economic recovery will turn things around...however, funding cuts to hospitals has taken its toll. I tell all the students to make sure they have intern jobs before they finish school so they can get their foot in the door.
I believe that if a 7th year is added to the pharmd program, you will see more jobs opening as interest in the profession will decline.
A handful of 6th year students I know are very stressed about the job prospects in NY. Things have definitly changed for the worse. Hopefully an economic recovery will turn things around...however, funding cuts to hospitals has taken its toll. I tell all the students to make sure they have intern jobs before they finish school so they can get their foot in the door.
I believe that if a 7th year is added to the pharmd program, you will see more jobs opening as interest in the profession will decline.
Hello resurrected thread.
I'm willing to send you my resume (complete) 15 pages, president of two organizations, 4.0 GPA and the list go on....Guarantee you don't know what you are talking about!
I have worked in HR. I have never seen a CV longer than 12 pages. And thats for medical doctors who were in academics and turned out papers every other week.
How on earth did you hit 15?
15 pages my ass.
Double spaced?
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2 inch margins?
to answer your question: currently, no.
Veyep is a troll...he is on the pre-med forums telling people that he is in med school. 🙄 He also told me in one thread that he is going to become a neurosurgeon and then in another thread told me he has a ton of money invested in a guarantee 25% return of investment.
The guy is an idiot and will be banned soon.
The demand has been phasing out since 2005-2006. For now, we have seen a handful of saturation in both pharmacy and nursing fields. A lot of RNs are going back to school becoming PAs or NPs due to lacck/saturation of RN jobs.
Agreed. I'm currently a resident physician in a major Southern CA medical center and in talking to my pharmD colleagues who just got jobs, it was not an easy time finding one. They were very good candidates from UCSF and still had issues finding full time jobs in the Los Angeles area.
Demand is always there - it's just dependent on where you want to work. Big cities like SF, LA, OC, SD in California? Saturated. If you're okay going to Fresno, Needles, Palm Desert then there are definitely openings available. If you're okay with working in the plains states (Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska) or the Midwest (not counting Chicago), then you can find a job fairly quickly.
If you want to work part time and do the graveyard shifts, then those are still available too. It's gotten to the point though where you have to be a great pharmD among your peers (good grades), otherwise you'll have to move to a place you may not desire.
If you want to work in industry such as drug development, then you can find some great positions but again you better be one of the best and know your clinical research well - they're not going to take a pharmD who doesn't have experience with clinical trials so get ready to crack open some biostats books!
