Summer... is it not a good time for job searching??

[makeawish]

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I’ve been looking aggressively for last 2-3 months, but there are not much openings out there.
Is the pharmacist job market usually slowed down after graduation season to summer?

I am so depressed....now.
Should I just stop looking and resume after the vacation season?

Can I work as a technician or something??

 

[BigBoss]

These days you may have to move to find a job.

 

[makeawish]

These days you may have to move to find a job.

So... it might not be just because of the timing, right?
I am now even more depressed... Yes, my area is super saturated—400+ new graduates in 1 city each year.

 

[Transformer]

So... it might not be just because of the timing, right?
I am now even more depressed... Yes, my area is super saturated—400+ new graduates in 1 city each year.

Be willing to move to less saturated areas, and you will find more jobs. After working a few years and gaining work experience, you can relocate to more desirable areas to live. Good Luck!

 

[johnpharm01]

I would not blame summer. I think fall will be worse once the new grads are out and licensed. Its a bad market. I had been looking for awhile, just got 4 job offers. The goal is to find someone who likes you and you in turn like. Keep trying, keep an open mind. An offer might come from an unexpected source.

 

[AH.Rx]

I’ve been looking aggressively for last 2-3 months, but there are not much openings out there.
Is the pharmacist job market usually slowed down after graduation season to summer?

I am so depressed....now.
Should I just stop looking and resume after the vacation season?

Can I work as a technician or something??

What city if you don’t mind me asking?


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[Saisri_PharmStdnt]

I can see that CVS has 79 Pharmacist positions in various places around PA (my original home state!). Most appear to retail ranging from retail floater to staff to manager. There's also one listing for Pharmacist - Account manager.

I'm not pushing who I work for, but I definitely don't like to hear people struggling to find a job. I also don't mind if you need to use me as a reference for a spot - I know it can help with getting an interview. PM me for my full name if you want to try. No pressure!

 

[makeawish]

I can see that CVS has 79 Pharmacist positions in various places around PA (my original home state!). Most appear to retail ranging from retail floater to staff to manager. There's also one listing for Pharmacist - Account manager.

I'm not pushing who I work for, but I definitely don't like to hear people struggling to find a job. I also don't mind if you need to use me as a reference for a spot - I know it can help with getting an interview. PM me for my full name if you want to try. No pressure!

Thank you so much, Saisri!
I applied a couple of staff/floater pharmacist and the Account manager positions, and got some rejections already. 🙁
I will PM you.
Thanks again!

 

[BidingMyTime]

Yes, obviously, summer/fall is the worst time for applying for pharmacy jobs. Summer is the worst because there are literally thousands of new grads lining up for jobs, many who are already interns who will get open positions as soon as they are licensed. Fall is 2nd worse, because inexplicably there are many pharmacy students who postpone the NAPLEX and don't get licensed until the fall or later (oblivious to the fact that the longer they delay licensing, the more they are hurting their job chances.)

No, in most states, you can not work as a technician after being licensed (and no pharmacy would hire you to do so because of legal reasons and potential workplace conflict.)

If you've been aggressively looking for 2 - 3 months, then you need to broaden your horizens beyond the area you were looking in. First, start looking at the entire state, then look to getting licensed in adjacent states (and/or states that have more openings than your current state), and start applying in those states.

 

[Lnsean]

wtf is with pharmacists wanting to work as technicians...jesus...so fk weak in here. OP, go to your bathroom...splash some water on your face and smack yourself a couple times for even thinking that. You are a pharmacist; work as pharmacist; get paid as a pharmacist. Period.

 

[mustang sally]

Summer is definitely a bad time to look due to all of the new grads plus residents finishing up. However, I wouldn't stop job hunting for that reason because you never know when you might find something.

 

[899424]

Go where the $ is at.

 

[Modest_anteater]

I’ve been looking aggressively for last 2-3 months, but there are not much openings out there.
Is the pharmacist job market usually slowed down after graduation season to summer?

I am so depressed....now.
Should I just stop looking and resume after the vacation season?

Can I work as a technician or something??

dude have you been sleeping this entire time? we have been saying for years how pharmacy is no longer in the golden age and the jobs are drying up very quickly.

17,4001/10 = 1,740 new jobs made a year roughly 3,000 pharmacists retiring/dying a year 140872 - 4,740 = 9,347 new grads unemployed a year This is 9,347 students that will never have a pharmacy job each year... in 10 years that is 93,000 unemployed pharmacists...

Ref 1 from government bls.gov which pulls data directly from IRS data

Ref 2 from NAPLEX first time test takers in 2017

If i were you I would consider going back to school for an in-demand degree before you become one of the 90,000+ terminally unemployed pharmacists that are predicted.

 

[BC_89]

dude have you been sleeping this entire time? we have been saying for years how pharmacy is no longer in the golden age and the jobs are drying up very quickly.

17,4001/10 = 1,740 new jobs made a year roughly 3,000 pharmacists retiring/dying a year 140872 - 4,740 = 9,347 new grads unemployed a year This is 9,347 students that will never have a pharmacy job each year... in 10 years that is 93,000 unemployed pharmacists...

Ref 1 from government bls.gov which pulls data directly from IRS data

Ref 2 from NAPLEX first time test takers in 2017

If i were you I would consider going back to school for an in-demand degree before you become one of the 90,000+ terminally unemployed pharmacists that are predicted.

Using your own references and you knowing for “years” of the job market:

Why are you currently in pharmacy school?

(Not being sardonic...just intrigued)

 

[awval999]

Yes, obviously, summer/fall is the worst time for applying for pharmacy jobs. Summer is the worst because there are literally thousands of new grads lining up for jobs, many who are already interns who will get open positions as soon as they are licensed. Fall is 2nd worse, because inexplicably there are many pharmacy students who postpone the NAPLEX and don't get licensed until the fall or later (oblivious to the fact that the longer they delay licensing, the more they are hurting their job chances.)

This may be true for new grads in community, but I disagree with that time period for hospital employment.

For hospital, spring/summer is the worst. Because by April, facilities will wait for PGY1s or PGY2s to graduate, their own residents to graduate, etc. A lot of the job postings between April-July are already "filled". But by August, facilities can't wait a whole year if someone quits, retires, finds a new job, etc. Job hopping is the easiest in hospital in the fall/winter or approximately August - March.