When you work with Cary Sullivan, there’s one thing you can be certain she’ll say a lot: “I’ll take it on.” 

Sullivan started working in healthcare for a physician practice at just 16, then she landed a spot at an HMO in Buffalo, New York when she was 21. She says the HMO had great vision and it was a perfect fit for her. Sullivan worked in the member services department and then central medical administration, and because she was doing a job that was new and undefined she moved desks frequently. At one point she ended up at a desk in the MIS department – surrounded by graduate students (one of the HMO’s founders taught at SUNY). She joined in football betting pools with the MIS department. She even baked for them. In return, they taught her how the databases were organized. She became proficient at pulling data and presenting graphs that told a story with data. It was undoubtedly a win-win.

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Nestled between an arching hillside and a babbling brook, along an unpaved road in the Sutter Butte mountain range of Northern California, stands a sign that reads, "Time to Slow Down." In these viral days of overexposure and oversharing it sounds like a great idea, right? But you’re a physician recruiter, and conventional wisdom says you can’t unplug for a nanosecond.

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Eighty seven percent of physicians are open to new jobs, but exactly where in the U.S. are physicians exploring new opportunities? Using a specialized Interest Index, Doximity is applying a proportional score to U.S. jobs based on the number of clicks, applies, and responses to Job Posts and DocMails (Doximity’s messaging platform) by physicians, and the results show some surprising trends.

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The physician recruitment arena is a buyer’s market. Physicians at all levels of training and experience have a lot of options. A recent labor report even pointed out that it now takes longer to hire for healthcare than it did prior to the 2008 recession. But then you’re a physician recruiter, so no one knows more about the crunch than you do.

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Physician recruiters are on the go. That's why Doximity built the first app for physician recruiters that’s as mobile as you are. 

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Have this ever happed to you? You sign a candidate (after working with him or her for a year) who doesn’t show up—only to discover the competition snagged the physician. Or let’s say you sign a physician who does show up, and does a great job, but they up and leave just a year later.

Recruiting physicians is tough; it requires aggressive tactics sometimes because recruiting comes at a high cost.

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Ask most physician recruiters how they find great candidates and they’ll tell you they network. As it turns out, networking is imperative for physicians looking for jobs these days, too. In fact, it’s critical for all job hunters in America.

Workers in the U.S. don’t actually hunt for a job—the job finds them, says a new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF). According to the data, most people who switch jobs in the U.S. never reported even looking for a job. That goes for people who were unemployed, too: 63.1% of people hired weren’t actively searching. What’s more, 42% of hires occur at companies that never even made a vacancy public.

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Physicians have a proven love affair with Apple products, so your candidates will be thrilled to learn that Doximity is offering a version of its app for the new Apple Watch—downloadable on April 24. The Apple Watch hits retail shelves and ecommerce sites the same day.

The Apple Watch is a wearable device that functions much like a mobile phone. The new Doximity app brings your physician candidates secure HIPAA-compliant messaging, as well as an e-fax number, and a journal feed right to their wrist.

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Meet Kamal Woods, MD, a neurosurgeon who practices in Murietta, California. One of the most tech-savvy doctors we’ve ever met, Dr. Woods wears perfectly patterned shirt-and-tie combos and exudes great humor and warmth (take THAT all those neurosurgeon stereotypes).

To introduce a new blog series, the Doximity Talent Finder team asked Dr. Woods about the pathway he took to become a practicing neurosurgeon. It wasn’t exactly brain surgery (sorry, we had to say it) but it was a remarkable journey of awakening.

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Placeholders, free agents, locum tenens…no matter the name, a physician filling in for another physician has been a common practice (and a professional courtesy) for a long time. Physicians retire, resign, and get fired; physicians need vacation and personal time, as well as maternity and sick leave, too. 

Of course, staffing shortages are the norm these days and physician turnover creates a huge expense. Regardless of why or how a physician vacancy exists, healthcare facilities have to maintain patient care quality—so they regularly hire part-time or temporary locum tenens physicians to fill the gap.

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