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This Week | Read inspiring insights on smart questions to ask during your next interview to find a practice that truly fits. Explore perspectives on the veterinary workforce challenges - could positive changes be on the horizon? Find encouragement in a compelling story of becoming a first-generation veterinarian, and discover valuable wisdom about the journey from mentee to mentor. Browse diverse opportunities from Nashville to Orewa, including positions in shelter medicine and emergency care. Explore exciting locum relief positions worldwide, and stay current with trending discussions from graduate debt trends to work-life balance strategies. And as always...please take care of yourself; you deserve it, and if you can, someone else too 🤗

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🩺 4 Essential Interview Questions that Candidates Must Ask

Landing the ideal role is about more than just finding a practice with the hours, salary and location you want. We all know that feeling when a job looks perfect on paper, but something doesn't feel quite right in the interview – or that wonderful moment when you realize a practice could offer even more opportunity than you expected.

The trick is asking questions that actually show you what it's like to work there. Not just about the money and schedule but real insights into how they think, what drives them, and whether you'll thrive in their environment.

With help from our community of veterinarians, nurses, and techs who've successfully found their ideal practices, we've put together four key questions that help get to the heart of what matters: initiative, motivation, growth, and teamwork. These aren't meant to be fired off like a checklist – they're conversation starters that let you and your potential new practice get to know each other properly.

Here are the questions our community finds most revealing...

📉 The Big Short-age - Continuing Darkness or is there Light on the Horizon

The veterinary profession faces an unprecedented workforce challenge as pet ownership soars and service demands intensify. From educational bottlenecks to practitioner burnout, this complex crisis demands innovative solutions. Discover how the best in the industry are adapting to ensure sustainable veterinary care for the future...

🌱 Navigating the transition from mentee to mentor

The journey from mentee to mentor marks a pivotal shift in veterinary careers. As practitioners gain confidence through experience and guidance, many find themselves transitioning to teach newer graduates, creating supportive environments that nurture the next generation's growth. Discover the key principles that make this transition successful...

✨ On becoming a first-generation veterinarian - a continuous journey of joy

Navigating cultural expectations and personal dreams, this story follows a first-generation South Asian and Caribbean woman's path to veterinary medicine. Against the backdrop of immigrant family hopes for conventional success, her journey from dutiful daughter to aspiring veterinarian reveals how passion can bridge cultural divides. Discover how she found her calling...

🩺Job Of The Week

🩺Featured Jobs USA + Canada

Managing Veterinarian

🔸Havre de Grace🔸MD🔸USA🔸We are seeking a Managing Veterinarian to lead our successful practice and enjoy our ideal lifestyle location. You will lead our team of talented veterinarians, technicians and support team members, ensuring high-quality medicine and fostering teamwork. Your role involves coordinating cases, client communication, protocol establishment, and staff education. Joint Ownership is also an option.

Veterinarian

🔸Bloomington🔸IL🔸USA🔸We are a highly motivated team of animal health enthusiasts. Our team focuses on the health of our client's pets and our clients' educational needs. This is an opportunity to join a team of highly trained individuals and offer the best possible veterinary care to our loving clients and patients. We also offer educational advancement for personal areas of interest. Let your passion for pets and best practice veterinary care shine every day.

Small Animal Veterinarian

🔸Bedford🔸PA🔸USA🔸Join our established practice that has been a cornerstone in our community for over fifty years, delivering exceptional veterinary care. Engage with our team of passionate and skilled veterinary professionals armed with the resources to provide quality medicine and surgery. Enjoy a fulfilling work-life balance in a location and community that offers an ideal lifestyle, making every day rewarding both personally and professionally.

🩺Featured Jobs Australia + NZ + ASIA

Managing Veterinarian

🔸Havre de Grace🔸MD🔸USA🔸We are seeking a Managing Veterinarian to lead our successful practice and enjoy our ideal lifestyle location. You will lead our team of talented veterinarians, technicians and support team members, ensuring high-quality medicine and fostering teamwork. Your role involves coordinating cases, client communication, protocol establishment, and staff education. Joint Ownership is also an option.

Small Animal Vet

🔸Orewa🔸Auckland🔸New Zealand🔸Sun, surf, sand… Imagine working a 4-day week with no after-hours, 1:3 Saturday mornings, and just a 2-minute stroll to the beautiful Orewa Beach! Sounds good, right? An opportunity has arisen for an experienced small animal veterinarian to join our team at the Orewa Beach Vet Clinic in an amazing location. Join our warm, welcoming, talented, and highly collaborative team.

Emergency Veterinarian

🔸Warragul🔸VIC🔸Australia🔸Work in a state-of-the-art facility equipped with the latest technology, ensuring you have the tools needed for top-notch care. Benefit from a generous CPD allowance and a strong focus on your mental and emotional well-being through our Employee Assistance Program. Join a clinic that’s dedicated to your professional growth and committed to expanding its services to better serve our community.

🩺Featured Jobs UK + Europe + Worldwide

Veterinary Surgeon

🔸Cockfosters🔸Greater London🔸UK🔸We currently have an amazing opportunity for a Veterinary Surgeon to join our fantastic team. This role will include both consulting and surgical work and is an ideal opportunity to take your career to the next level. Our team is friendly and supportive and consists of a Lead Vet, Head RVN, 2 Student Nurses, and a Patient Care Assistant, who is a long-standing member of the team and very knowledgeable.

Veterinary Referral Clinician

🔸Bath🔸Somerset🔸UK🔸We are looking for a Referral Surgeon to join our small, friendly team. We offer referrals in small animal medicine, soft tissue surgery, orthopaedic surgery, medical neurology, spinal surgery, cardiology, ophthalmology, and rehabilitation, where we see referral cases from across the South West and South Wales. Join our warm, welcoming, talented, and highly supportive team.

Head Veterinary Surgeon

🔸Dagenham🔸Greater London🔸UK🔸We are on the lookout for a Head Small Animal Vet to join our growing, motivated team! Should you be at the stage in your career where you are wanting that next step, we would love to hear from you! We are committed to being a fully inclusive place to work where all our colleagues are encouraged to be themselves, where difference is celebrated, and where everyone feels able to deliver their best.

🏥 Find Locum Relief Jobs & Shifts 24/7…

🏥 NEEDED ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

🔸Phoenix🔸Arizona🔸USA🔸Our goal is to treat our patients and clients as if they are family. We strive to care for our patients as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible while practicing quality medicine and improving client education. Our schedules are set for 30-minute appointments with an hour-and-a-half...

🏥 NEEDED ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

🔸Perth🔸Western Australia🔸AUSTRALIA🔸Work with us We’ve got a fantastic team of vets and nurses who are keen to provide the best care for our patients that we can. Our goal is to create a unique, interesting workplace that both our team and our clients love coming to. Each clinic is proudly locally owned and operated, which...

🏥 NEEDED ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

🔸Manchester🔸Cheshire🔸UK🔸Friendly and hard-working team, who pride ourselves in providing high quality care for our patients and clients. We all get on, and support each other when required. A modern, and forward-thinking practice, keen to welcome like-minded individuals to work with us....

🩺 Find Locum Relief Vets, Nurses & Technicians 24/7…

🩺 AVAILABLE ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

🔸Portland🔸Oregon🔸USA🔸My name is Marianne. I am an experienced, skilled, independent and efficient choice for relief in your practice! As a former house call practice owner, associate, and relief veterinarian, I am just what your practice needs to process and retain clients during your time of need. My focus...

🩺 AVAILABLE ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinary Nurse

🔸Melbourne🔸Victoria🔸AUSTRALIA🔸Hello, my name is Gemma. I am a small animal veterinary nurse from the UK. I graduated from the Royal Veterinary College in 2019 with an FdSc in Veterinary Nursing. I then went on to complete my BSc in 2020. Since then I have worked in a variety of different clinics including: general practice,...

🩺 AVAILABLE ➡️ Locum Relief Veterinarian - GP

🔸Portsmouth🔸England🔸UK🔸A veterinary surgeon with a special interest in clinical pathology and feline medicine. I combine it with emergency medicine and technology, which gives me new options to evolve and look for opportunities in the changing veterinary world. I enjoy hospital work and the diagnostic process.

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