Everyone is dying to see the AAPA salary report. PAs are surrounding AAPA HQ waiting for that report to come out. Newspaper boys around the country yell “EXTRA, EXTRA” on street corners letting everyone know that the salary report is ready.
Here’s the inside scoop: Those numbers don’t matter. Not one teeny tiny bit. Not until you have a job offer.
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
Don’t sit there and count your imaginary piles of cash before you start the interview process. We all do it, but it’s putting the cart before the horse. That sweet Maserati will have to wait just a little bit longer.
The numbers are great. Very exciting especially when you’ve been hemorrhaging money for years. But, before you can dive into and swim around in your pool filled with gold coins, a la Scrooge McDuck, you have to get a JOB.
Do you have a plan for finding a job? The terrible answers look like this:
“Uh, no.”
What kind of job do you think you’re going to find with that plan??
The mediocre answers look like this:
“I’ll go on the job boards and find something.”
This is slightly better but…
Wouldn’t you rather find the job of your dreams and have docs BEGGING you to come work for them?
Do you think you’ll get that kind of response by adding your resume to a digital stack of resumes that all look exactly alike?
Nope.
I’ve got way better ways to handle this, but even if you don’t want the best way (which you’ll find within the pages of the July 2018 issue of PAES) take some time and think the process over.
Finding a job may be the most important, most valuable thing you ever do.
You spent 3 years in school to get to a point where you could get a job, and now you’re not even going to put 15 minutes into thinking about the process. You’ll put hours into looking, but not minutes into planning.
For shame. Your grandmother would be so disappointed.
How’s about I make it easier for you? I’ve got it all laid out and ready to go in the July 2018 issue of Physician Assistant Exam Scholars Newsletter. Now, under normal circumstances if you didn’t already have that issue in your library, it wouldn’t do you much good to know about the gold that lies within its pages. But you are in luck.
This weekend I’m making the July 2018 issues available to you again in what I’m calling:
Check it out here
Brian Wallace
P.S. This package is about 80% the material in the July and August 2018 and November 2020 issues of PAES. If you already own those issues, you will have to decide if purchasing the Dream Job Package makes sense for you. If you don’t already have those three issues, then I suggest you scurry over to grab this deal promptly. I rarely offer back issues of the PAES newsletter and there’s a good chance these three won’t be available even if I do.
