When to start applying for physician assistant jobs
Applying for PA Jobs |Sources|Interview|Contract|Salary
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I can't talk today hey everyone and
welcome back to my channel so for
today's video we're gonna go over my
process that I go through when I'm
looking for a PA job a quick tip for new
grads who are applying I would say to
apply about two or three months before
you're going to graduate that's a good
time to start but if you're planning on
applying to a hospital I would call
ahead of time and see if they accept
applications that don't have a license
number yet so before you graduate you're
not going to have your PA license number
even if you get a temporary one some
hospitals don't accept that because
their credentialing process is a little
bit more strict so save yourself some
time and call beforehand so that you
have to waste your time doing an
application that's never going to be a
whole looked at but it comes to looking
for jobs I use pretty much the same five
resources so much or how many there are
but I really like indeed I use a super
corridor a zipper zipper cruder blasts
or doc cafe also fappa hub which is our
organization for florida its florida
paths florida ahem oh gosh Florida
Association of PJs in order to look at
the job boards for these associations
you usually have to do like a monthly
fee or a membership fee I'm not sure
which one indeed is a great search
engine we're looking for PA jobs so all
you want to do is go to the what bar and
type in physician assistant and then for
where you can type in whatever location
you want to be in
once it loads its gonna bring up all of
the job postings that are going on right
now if you want to further refine your
search you can search by a salary
estimate by the job type full-time
part-time and buy a little bit more
specific locations or other cities just
from the main page I like to just take
an overview at what fields the jobs are
in the salary if it's full-time or
part-time and then it can click on the
actual job itself to find out a little
bit more about the job but their
offering if they have any kind of
requirements or credentialing that they
require they'll usually list whether or
not they want you to have some kind of
experience or if they accept new grads
it all is really pretty self-explanatory
though and the site is really easy to
navigate if you're looking for a job in
a specific field you can actually type
that field into the search bar with
physician assistant and refine the jobs
like that for example here in South
Florida there aren't too many surgery
jobs so a lot of the postings that
you're going to see are going to be
unrelated
another great search engine you can use
a zip recruiter it's the same concept it
is indeed but sometimes there are more
jobs on here so this little pop-up will
come up and you can enter your email
address and they will contact you if any
more new jobs show up in the area that
you're looking for it basically has all
the same functions as indeed a chest
sometimes you'll have more listings here
one pro tip I want to mention is when
you look at these ads you want to see
what day they posted so this one was
posted six days ago so it's most likely
still available the jobs that were
posted over 30 days ago you may not want
to waste your time applying or you might
want to call instead and see if the job
is actually still available another
great resources for jobs is
organizations made by our state so ours
is fappa Florida Association of PAS and
usually you need to log in and be a
member in order to access these jobs
so my last and favorite source for
finding jobs is referrals from friends
so friends in the PA field are going to
know a better about the doctor that's
looking for PA usually and they know
their style and know that they're going
to be a good supervising physician for
you but that being said networking is a
really a huge beneficial thing to do
meeting new PA s and just hanging out
with them because guys are the same a
career choice that you guys can talk
about all the crazy crap that happens
every day and you can refer each other
when you know if there are jobs open
once you're in your interview usually at
the end they ask you if you have any
questions and now is a perfect time to
be able to go over anything that you may
have jotted down while you're looking at
the job posting to begin with so for
example if it didn't say on the listing
whether it's part-time or a full-time
job whether it's a hospitalist job or an
office job if there is a call scheduled
and if there is what is the schedule is
it once a month is it once every three
weeks questions like that so that you
can get a good understanding of what the
job entails so the last most important
question that I like to ask is if I can
come over to their office one day or
even half-day to shadow and get a feel
for the office and for the dynamics of
the environment amazing just so that you
can go and see the dynamics of the
office see the environment and see
really if it's a good fit for you you'll
learn with time that not all jobs are
perfect for you you may hate sitting in
an office day but you may hate sitting
in an office all day and not
know it until you get there until you're
in the job you're like God or let's say
you're a hospitalist and you're going
around just so many hospital and you're
like why am I going everywhere I'd
rather just sit in on this all day and
see people in one location so it's
really good idea to shadow so you can
see what it is that you like and get an
idea for the three years that I've been
a PA I have gathered a list you can say
a warning signs that you want to look
out for or be aware of when you're
looking for a job if you want to look
for our one if they have a high turnover
rate of their stuff so if their stuff is
quitting or they're getting fired very
quickly and there's a turnover of new
people very often then there's something
there's something wrong really either in
the management is doing something wrong
this place just isn't for them be me
it's very unorganized I don't know but
it's never a good sign when people keep
quite another thing to look for is if
they're willing to train you or not so
if they say they are willing to train
you but they push you into the room and
make you go see people without any kind
of training then that's probably
somewhere you don't want to be the last
thing I like to look at and sometimes
don't really take into account is the
reviews on the doctor or the office that
you're looking to work for so of course
you know people are going to post either
really great reviews or really bad
reviews and usually there's never like
the in-between where they're just like
oh I had a decent experience great so
the doctor or an office has maybe a one
or two star overall review I don't
always take that to heart I really want
to go through the comments and see what
they're saying to see if they're valid
or not because usually people complain
about wait times which what can you do
about wait times
aside from scheduling your office
effectively the things that I am looking
for and their reviews is about you know
like the cleanliness of the office the
behavior on the staff
whether they're rude or not how they
interact and of course hygiene I said
cleanliness is the same thing okay in
the wait times and just their overall
experience so if it's a one or two star
review and they're only talking about a
weight I'm not really something you want
to take into consideration until you're
there and you see exactly why that's
happening so I just want to go over some
contract basics so I'm not gonna go too
much into contacts because I have a
friend and colleague named Leanne Hahn
and she has a business called the Vance
prize ooh she has a business called
advanced practice provider solutions and
she teams up with lawyers to review
contracts and help piays negotiate so
her link is down below in case you're
interested in her services the things
that I do look for on a contract
obviously are one do you have a contract
so if you don't have a contract then you
probably shouldn't work there or you
should ask for one hundred contract do
you want to make sure your name is on it
obviously the date of commencement is on
it and everything because this is your
reference point this is your hard copy
of what your job entails so that if you
ever have any questions there's never
any confusion you can always refer back
to your contract when looking at your
benefits you want to see do they pay for
your your medical insurance do they give
you paid time off do they give you CM
mean allowance which is the continuing
medical education do they give you money
for that do they give you days off for
it do you get paid time off do they
reimburse your malpractice do they
reimburse your licensure so all of these
things are things you want to think
about if they're not in your contract
now you want to think about negotiating
yes
negotiating them into your contract
because are important parts of a career
are they
another thing to look out for is a
non-compete disclosure so not many
places have a non-compete usually it's
more in the field of aesthetics or a
very specialized field but basically
what a non-compete is that is is that
you're not allowed to practice in the
same field within a certain of mile
radius from the office that you're
currently working at so if that's
something that they want to include into
your contract try to see if you can get
it removed or if you can't try to think
about you know if this is something you
really want to do because it does keep
you from moving forward or moving on
from this company and doing your own
thing if that's something you want to do
or even just didn't work out with the
people there at that company and of
course the most important thing you want
to look at is your salary and how much
are you making how much are they
offering you so when it comes to salary
a really good resources that a APA
salary report they do one every single
year and they basically do a survey and
ask a whole bunch of PAS field do you
work in where do you work how much do
you make and all those great questions
so it's pretty accurate and by having
this report you have a really solid
argument for negotiating this is a
website that you're going to get the a
APA salary report so this report is done
by again the APA and it's done every
year I believe if you participated in
the survey it is free of cost but
otherwise it's going to cost you $200 in
order to access the report I just wanted
to give you guys a quick overview of the
salary of court from a APA this one is
from 2016 when you go the table of
contents it will show you you know what
page to go to to see salaries based on
specialty based on what state you're in
hospital versus outpatient it's very
thorough so if you want to know how much
people make in the specialty that you're
in and in the state that you're in this
is a great resource to look for that it
usually shows you the average and
actually it goes by percentiles so you
can see exactly what they're making and
you can use it as a competitive argument
when you're negotiating your contracts
as manaat' leads make sure your contract
is signed by both parties so you sign
your contract and your doctor or the
manager whoever that person is signs the
contract you date it and you get a hard
copy of it because you always mean it
you never know what's going to happen if
there is any question on like bonuses or
anything like that you can refer back to
your contract and there should never be
any confusion so that's all for today
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