Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Hello to a Fellow Blogger - a Recruiter

Here finally is a quote from someone on the recruiter side who at least partially understands me, who sees me in the right light, "Physician Recruiter"- Thank You and Welcome!

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Last night, I discovered a blog that I have not seen before called “A Physician on Job Search and Practice: What I Wish I Had Known as a Resident”. This is a well written and active blog with a heavy emphasis on searching for practice opportunities as well as other general thoughts and advice about your career and managing a medical practice.

As the Physician recruiter blog grows, our readers will grow an understanding that I feel it’s important to represent and look at issues from multiple angles. One thing that I appreciate about the “A Physician On…” blog is that it’s written from the perspective of a physician who has been though job searches using various tools, including 3rd party recruiters as well as a hiring authority who has recruited physicians. While the goal of each “recruiting process” is to create a win-win, the truth of the matter is that the hiring authority and the candidates are, in many ways, on opposite sides and clearly have different motivations and biases. While win-win situations do occur, often one or both parties is settling in some way, be it money, duties, location, experience or whatever. Throw in a 3rd party recruiter and there are even more variables.

As someone who has been through the recruiting process multiple times as a candidate, someone who has hired a lot of candidates by my own efforts, using 3rd party recruiters and using job boards, someone who has worked as a 3rd party recruiter and, now, as someone involved with specialty recruiting publications and job boards, I feel “A Physician On..” does a fairly reasonable job of capturing the reality of job search/recruitment. That said, I feel 3rd party recruiters are greatly over-vilified, as only the most extreme and negative examples and perceptions of recruiters are represented there.

I was able to read the majority of the entries from the last few months and, while I found plenty that I disagree with to varying degrees, there was a lot that I think is right on. At it’s worst it is an extremely thought provoking read and, at it’s best, up to this point, it is the most worthwhile blog I’ve seen on the subject of physician recruitment. “A Physician On..” is a place that I will be visiting regularly and one that I would recommend to anyone, physician or recruiter, involved in the process.

posted by Physician Recruiter at 9:35 AM on Aug 9, 2007


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What a pleasant surprise - finally someone who understands me. I am not here to bury recruiters, but to make the job search better for my fellow physicians. Yes, I show the negative side of the real day by day recruiting, yes, I may "over vilify" sometimes, but that is spicy customer feedback. And I am doing this simply because nobody else is doing it. All other blogs are just "Hurray recruiters!" blogs and websites. Balance is sorely needed, someone has to report about the drawbacks, someone has to show the other side!
In my years of dealing with recruiters I just have seen too much hype in advertising (and NO, my dear recrutiers, 1.5 hours are NOT a "short drive"...), too much sales tactics, too much shallow handling of candidates(immediate drop in interest once they find out I want to work in a difficult area such as Miami and Boston), too much sell, sell, sell. I am not happy about the current state of recruiters.
Dear Physician recruiter, I hope your partly favorable comment on my blog does not get you expelled from the NAPR...

Thank you so much for understanding me. I look forward to talking to you more in the future!

Your Matthias Muenzer, MD

Posted by ObGynThoughts at 8:04 PM

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