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PharmacyThisWeek: Is social media screwing up your job search?

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Welcome to PharmacyThisWeek!

For years, I’ve been a huge proponent of harnessing the power of social media tools for job search.

Huge.

Never in history have we as professionals had so many tools at our fingertips … tools that allow us to present our brands to the universe, at the click of a button.

Tools that enable us to find and chat with company leaders, research organizations that we’d die to work for, and rally our friends and associates for support along the way.

I get giddy sometimes just thinking about the magnificent power of social media.

But a recent conversation made me realize something, there’s also huge downside to social media when it comes to job search, or progressing our lives in general.

We let it eat up all of our spare time.

Worse, we let it eat up all of our spare brain space.

The conversation was with a pharmacist who works full time, has two small children and feels constantly stressed by the lack of free time in her daily and weekly schedule. She wants to find a new, better job, badly. But feels she just has no time to dedicate to making it happen.

Same woman spends at least 1-2 hours a night on Facebook and Pinterest.

“After I put the kids to bed, I just mindlessly surf,” she admitted. “Sometimes, I feel like I have a specific purpose, but most often, I just want to veg out and see what I stumble upon.”

A recipe. A nugget of wisdom from a friend. A purse that she cannot live without. Photos of the heart-breaker who dumped her in her last year of college (he looks old and unhappy now, ha!) A picture of some hideous chia seed smoothie with an absurd “Yummmmmy” caption. Certainly nothing groundbreaking, she admitted.

But she keeps going back to it, night after night after night.

And her job search isn’t just sluggish; it’s non-existent.

So if you’re finding yourself in that boat where you hate your job, feel you’re under-appreciated, know you’re underpaid, or would give your left arm to work for that hospital across town … yet you never seem to have the time to do anything about it?

Consider logging your social media time for a week. Every minute you gravitate over to Facebook, log it. Every Pinterest board you open, log it. Every life moment you interrupt so you can Instagram it, log it.

Add up that time, and then consider the pay off. Do you feel like a better person, a happier person, a more fulfilled person because you now know what ’70s star you’d be or what color homecoming dress your neighbor’s kid just picked out?

Could you have allocated that time to move yourself forward instead?

I’m guessing the answer is yes.

We’re all so busy, so over-scheduled, so frantic and frazzled with the pace of our lives.

But if you really want a change … get the hell off of Facebook for a while.

And get the hell on with your amazing life.


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Before we turn to the new jobs please take a look at the following interactive guides for pharmacy technicians. This is from a new advertiser and in the very cool iBook format. These books were written by Dottie Dunaway, CPhT, Dottie works for Humana. The publisher has asked me to get any feedback I can so if anyone has an opinion or a comment please let me know, thanks!!

Math Review, Law Review & Top 200 Drug Guide For The Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam


We’re still averaging way over 100 new jobs each week. You can see them all here and check out these interesting ones!!

Pharmacist

Clinical Staff Pharmacist, War Memorial Hospital, Sault Ste. Marie, MI

Providence Health & Services – 10 New Pharmacist positions in Oregon! 30+ Pharmacist & Tech openings in AK, CA, MT, OR & WA!!

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Outpatient Program Mgr, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Las Vegas, NV (Have Outpatient Program Mgr opening too, same location!!)

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs – 100+ Pharmacist & Tech openings Nationwide!!

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist (Ambulatory), Sentara Medical Group Admin, Norfolk, VA

Sr Clinical Pharmacist – Specialty, Prime Therapeutics (Bloomington, MN or Orlando, FL)

Staff Pharmacist, Central Admixture Pharmacy Services, Inc.(CAPS), Horsham, PA

Staff Pharmacist (Full-time), 25-bed Acute Care Hospital, located in NE LA (New grads & retail welcome!!)

DOP (492-bed), Baptist Hospital, Pensacola, FL CPS

Chenega Corporation – Clinical Pharmacist @ Ft Benning, GA & Ft Hood & Ft Bliss, TX!!

Manager, Pharmacy – Assistant Director Of Pharmacy, St Luke’s Hosp, Tempe, AZ Cardinal Health

5 – RxE Pharmacist II, Cardinal Health (IL, MA, MI, NC) Search “RxE”

Pharmacy Manager / Director Of Pharmacy – Infusion Services, Walgreens, Louisville, KY

Clinical Pharmacy Mgr, St Luke’s Magic Valley, Twin Falls, ID (2 hrs SE of Boise)

Pharmacist (Full-time & Flex), St Luke’s Magic Valley, Twin Falls, ID (2 hrs SE of Boise)

DOP, (100+ beds, Staff of 10), Specialty Hospital, Lexington, KY Pharmacy Systems, Inc.

DOP (525 bed), Denver Health & Hospital Authority, Denver, CO

Staff Pharmacist (2nd shift), Froedtert Hospital, Milwaukee, WI

Portfolio Executive – Pharmacy, Apexus/340B Prime Vendor Program, Irving, TX

340B Implementation Mgr, Pharmacy, Apexus/340B Prime Vendor Program (National, Virtual Office/Telecommute)

Portfolio Executive – Distribution, Apexus/340B Prime Vendor Program, Irving, TX

Director, State Pharmacy, WellCare Health Plans, Inc, Cypress, CA

Non-Pharmacist

Prime Therapeutics – Sr SAS Analyst, Dir Network Contracting, Sr. Compliance Analyst – Government Prog, Sr. Forecast Analyst, Sr Dir Specialty Pharmacy Manufacturing & Contracts, Sr Clin Research Prog

Director of Franchise Pharmacy Support, Uvanta, Chicago, IL (Strong LTC exp req but Pharmacist not req)

20+ Managed Care openings with Prime Therapeutics – Nationwide!!

Technician

Clinical Review Technician, Prime Therapeutics, Edina, MN (Minneapolis, Several openings!!)

Pharmacy Technician (Part-time), Athens-Limestone Hospital, Athens, AL CPS

Quality Control Coordinator, Central Admixture Pharmacy Services, Inc. (CAPS), San Diego, CA

Pharmacy Technician (Material Management), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Big Spring, TX (West TX)

IV Tech, Central Admixture Pharmacy Services, Inc.(CAPS), Dallas, TX

Pharmacy Technician (Part-time), The Meadows Psychiatric Center, Centre Hall, PA CPS (State College area)

Pharmacy Tech – Inventory Compliance (1st shift), Froedtert Hospital Hospital, Milwaukee, WI


We update the following employer’s openings each week so be sure and check out their latest available positions. Unless otherwise noted these employers have openings in multiple states so be sure and search on the state and/or job title you are most interested in. If you have any questions just let me know.

Aetna
Apexus
Central Admixture Pharmacy Services
Centura Health
Cleveland Clinic
CardinalHealth
CompleteRx
Comprehensive Pharmacy Services (CPS)
Froedtert Health
Innovatix
Intermountain Healthcare (UT and SE ID)
PharmaCare Services
Pharmacy Systems, Inc.
Prime Therapeutics
Providence Health & Services
Sentara (SE VA and NE NC)
Target
Veterans Administration
Walmart

I hope everyone has a great and safe week, you can always reach me at my email or cell number below, thanks!

Kevin Mero
President
kevin@pharmacyweek.com
cell: 210 872-6160

 

 



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