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It's nice when someone else advocates for what I'm doing, and I didn't even have to ask them to do so. I just came across a great 2011 article on kevinmd.com written by a physician recruiter. Now, he's not exactly advocating for what I do, but he's making an excellent point about how using a physician recruiter may not be in a physician's best interest. And that demonstrates how the services I provide are in physicians' best interests. This article is an interesting read for any physician embarking on their job search and who is bombarded by physician recruiters' emails and phone calls.
The gist of this article goes to the fact that if a physician is searching for a job in a particular market that is already saturated with physicians, chances are the employers in that market aren't going to pay a recruiter's fee because they don't need to do so in order to recruit the physician employees. In this type of scenario, having a recruiter job searching for you may actually hurt your chances because if you're put up against a guy who doesn't have a recruiter representing him, the employer may very well pass you up and hire the candidate who doesn't also cost him a $20,000+ recruiter's fee.
The real take-away point of this article, for me, is that physician recruiters work for the physician employers. They're not really working for the physicians. While they may help you in searching around for open spots, one thing is for sure, they're not going to hook you up with an employer who hasn't agreed to pay them for placing you there. In other words, physician recruiters cannot actually be serving your best interests, and this is true for 2 reasons: 1) they are being paid by your potential employer, not by you, and that means they work for your potential employer, not you; 2) they will not explore employment options that may be the best fit for you, if the employer is unwilling to pay a recruiter's fee.
All in all, this article indirectly advocates for what I do: truly represent physicians in their job search. Physician agents are hired by and paid by physicians. As a physician agent, I don't get paid unless my client signs an employment contract- and if my client chooses, I don't get paid until my client literally starts getting paid him or herself. My job is to do all that it takes to find the ideal employment arrangement for my physician clients, and to do so in a concierge manner. Anyone in the medical field knows that doctors, particularly those who are still in training and taking Q4 call, don't have time to be Googling all over looking for potential employers, fine-tuning their CVs, and marketing themselves to all potential employers who might be right for them. If they do have time for these tasks, they would much rather spend that free time doing something they enjoy, like eating or sleeping, or visiting with friends and family. And that is the difference between physician recruiters and physician agents. A physician recruiter is happy to place you with one of their clients who is going to pay them for bring you to the employer. A physician agent is going to work tirelessly to uncover all potential employment matches, and shape your employment arrangement so that it meets your every expectation.
To learn more, visit our Premier Opportunity webpage to see how we provide concierge physician job search services.
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