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Career development in veterinary practice
Career development is a lifelong process that is unique for every individual. There are many influences that contribute to your career such as:
- Who you are as an individual: This includes your self-concept, interests, skills, knowledge, personality, ethnicity, age, gender, ability, disability, health, beliefs and sexual orientation. For example, your choice of hobbies reflects your interests and abilities.
- Your community: The community plays an important role in forming your identity, beliefs and attitudes. Members of your community can be your family, peers, friends or colleagues from your school or workplace, employers, the media, community groups and clubs. They can influence the lifestyle you want to aspire towards, the work you choose, the life roles you take on and what you value about yourself.
- The environment and wider society: This refers to the opportunities or constraints caused by factors such as the region or location you live in (ie rural or metropolitan), what is happening in the employment market (eg are there job vacancies in your career field), your socio-economic status (eg do you have to consider financial commitments such as mortgages or children's education), historical trends (eg changes in women's participation in the workforce) and political decisions (eg government grants available for enterprise development).
Take a look at these Veterinary Practice Career Development Resources
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Pop Goes the Weazel download
Do your staff have any idea of the commercial realities of operating a quality professional service, the costs involved and the need to be profitable? You know that somehow you need to teach them but ... . . . keep reading
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Options for Practice Ownership 2
The second of two articles to review and update current options for practice ownership and to seek individuals who have become practice owners during the last few years and who might be prepared to share ... . . . keep reading
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Options for Practice Ownership
The first of two articles. This one was published in the Veterinary Business Journal in June 2008. The April/May 2005 issue of The Veterinary Business Journal included the first of my articles entitled Major Crossroads in Your Career .. . . . keep reading
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Pop Goes the Weazel
Do your staff have any idea of the commercial realities of operating a quality professional service, the costs involved and the need to be profitable? You know that somehow you need to teach them.. . . . keep reading
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Do You Need a Sabbatical?
Taking more quality time off can help you refresh and refocus. by Dennis M. McCurnin, DVM We live in a world that continues to become more demanding and stressful. The expectation is to be more efficient and more or . . . keep reading
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Staying Motivated
by Bill Lampton, Ph.D. Working with a variety of organizations, I hear seminar participants ask, "How can we sustain motivation after this session? What can we do after this board retreat-when we return to our demanding daily rou . . . keep reading
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