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Do people find Vet opportunities near their home town or do you have to relocate

I'm potentially interested in veterinary medicine but unsure of the opportunities after college graduation and vet school. Do people often relocate for jobs or do you find enough opportunities near your home town vicinity? #veterinary #jobs

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Ken’s Answer

Your entry and advancement through your education/journey will be directly related to

  • the time and effort that you take to identify the career area for which you are best suited
  • the effort and determination that you exercise in the preparation for that career area
  • the time and effort that you extend to the development of networking relationships that will greatly help you throughout your education/career journey

Here are some steps that I have found to be very important through my years in Human Resources and College Recruiting

Ken recommends the following next steps:

Take an interest and aptitude test administered and interpreted by a professional during high school and again when by a professional at a college that you are considering or the college that you are entering, as the interpretations might differ. However, you do not want to wait until college to do this.
When you have the results and the interpretation, talk to the person who tracks with and works with graduates of your school or college to arrange to talk to graduates tho are doing what is identified by your testing and interpretation, so that you can meet them, visit them, talk to them, and possibly shadow them to see what they do, where they do it, and how you feel about it. I have encountered too many graduates who skipped this step and ended up in jobs/careers for which they were ill suited. Here are some tips: http://www.wikihow.com/Network ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/nonawkward-ways-to-start-and-end-networking-conversations ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/4-questions-to-ask-your-network-besides-can-you-get-me-a-job?ref=carousel-slide-1 ##
Locate and attend meetings of professional associations to which people in your area of interest belong, so that you can get to know people who are doing what you think that you want to do. Here are some tips: ## https://www.careeronestop.org/BusinessCenter/Toolkit/find-professional-associations.aspx?&frd=true ## ## https://www.themuse.com/advice/9-tips-for-navigating-your-first-networking-event ## Many times these associations have or know of internship, scholarship, shadowing, or coop opportunities. These associations are the means whereby professionals keep abreast of advancements in their career field and advance and progress through their career and locate opportunities where ever they might be - near and far, as they prefer.
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Todd’s Answer

That's going to depend on the location that you live, and what type of job you want after you graduate. If you live in a rural community, and you want to do mixed animal practice (small and large animal), the odd will be much greater you could work in the area than if you wanted to do research, emergency medicine, or say surgical specialty work. Also remember that a veterinary degree can allow you to do almost anything, a veterinarian has flown on the space shuttle. Pretty far from home.

Todd recommends the following next steps:

Look for veterinarians in your area, and see what type of work they do. Is that something you are interested in? What type of work are you interested in once you graduate? Look to see where that type of work is available. Here is a link to the vet school in your area, for information on admission. Fill in the information & get started. Good Luck. Link: https://vet.admissions.tufts.edu/register/requestforinfo
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