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Early Years of Your Practice: What to Consider
The best way to create the future you want is to set goals and then plan appropriately for them. Roadmaps are essential to your career plan! Here are key issues to consider and address during the early years of your practice. Strategic Planning Your days are likely to...
Leadership Development
When it comes to discussing art, many people say, “I’m not an expert but I know what I like when I see it.” The same concept is often true when it comes to leadership abilities, as well. We can recognize when a leader is either being especially effective or...
Do You Need A Letter Of Intent? What They Are & How to Beware
Letters of intent (LOIs) are used in veterinary medicine during employment and practice sale negotiations to put preliminary terms into writing. They can be useful for planning but unclear expectations and ambiguity in LOI language – particularly about the...
Screening the Social Media Accounts of Interviewees
Let’s say you’ve found the “perfect” candidate for your veterinary tech. She’s skilled, great with animals and compassionate with people. What more could you need, right? But, shortly after you hire her, you notice she regularly uses swear words at work that make...
Emergency Succession Planning for a Sole Owner
Ahhhhhh, you did it! Relaxing on the beach enjoying your first vacation since you opened your veterinary practice a decade ago. You start thinking about how far you have come building your business from the ground up and finally reaching the point where you can take...
Veterinary Practices Posting Pet Pictures on Social Media
As the employees of a veterinary practice know, one of the side benefits of the job is getting to meet and interact with adorable animals! You get to see the sweetest of kitty faces and the melting eyes of a lovable pup, and more. It can be tempting to photograph...
The State of Student Debt
The student debt load has been a longstanding and progressive problem within the veterinary field. Total student loan debt from veterinary school for graduates from the class of 2015 was $427,502,116.00, while the average debt accrued per student was $142,394.6...
Path To Partnership
Veterinary medicine is among the most unique careers in the world, with an incredible breadth and depth of knowledge shared among veterinarians. Over the course of a veterinarian’s career, he or she may learn about everything from alpaca anatomy to zoonoses like Zika....
Employee Guidelines for Social Media Usage
As of October 2015, says Pew Research Center, 76% of adults in the United States who have access to the Internet use Facebook – and, with the abundance of smartphones, people are connected to the Internet with just a finger tap. This trend is unlikely to decrease –...
Manager’s Role in Veterinary Ethics
Stories involving ethical decisions can frequently be found in the news, usually because someone’s ethics have been found wanting. And, although some people either intentionally make unethical choices and/or don’t spend enough time determining the appropriate...
2017 Calendar for Human Resources Related Events
2017 – Is it really here in just the blink of an eye? We have updated our calendar with additional events that you should be addressing in 2017 regarding Human Resources related activities. Please take the time to at least scan the list and pencil in on your...
Competing With Corporate Consolidation
The landscape of veterinary practice is definitely changing, with corporate buyers investing heavily – and this isn’t a brand new trend. In fact, DVM 360 offers up these examples from 2007: Summit Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm, invested $128...
