{"id":520,"date":"2006-12-21T15:17:33","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T21:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=520"},"modified":"2006-12-21T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T23:59:06","slug":"ace-ventura-pet-recruiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/ace-ventura-pet-recruiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace Ventura &#8211; Vet Recruiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/mld\/twincities\/business\/16286915.htm?source=rss&#038;channel=twincities_business\" target=\"_blank\">From our local Pioneer Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A specialist veterinarian in Eden Prairie, Goullaud regularly receives letters from faraway clinics imploring him to &#8220;join our team.&#8221; Glossy recruiting brochures breathlessly promise him the chance to practice veterinary medicine &#8220;the way it could be the way it should be&#8221; if he would just relocate.The age of high-tech, big-bucks veterinary care has arrived, and specialists like Goullaud are riding high. With pet owners willing to pay more than $3,000 for canine pacemaker surgery, $1,250 for a stent and $600 for a CT scan, clinics are clamoring to add upscale services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m stunned at the fact a canine pacemaker even exists let alone the cost. And now I am wondering if our sales-focused selection services have missed a grossly under served market:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is the greatest time of our lives to be a specialist,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are in demand.&#8221;The specialty focus also has a financial dimension. General practice veterinarians earned a median salary of $77,500 in 2003, while the median pay for specialists hit $137,500, according to the veterinary medical association.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I had no idea this recruiting demand existed in our society. I love dogs but am still astounded by the canine pacemaker. If you read the article, someone paid $3,200 to have one implanted in a 14 year-old toy poodle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From our local Pioneer Press: A specialist veterinarian in Eden Prairie, Goullaud regularly receives letters from faraway clinics imploring him to &#8220;join our team.&#8221; Glossy recruiting brochures breathlessly promise him the chance to practice veterinary medicine &#8220;the way it could be the way it should be&#8221; if he would just relocate.The age of high-tech, big-bucks veterinary care has arrived, and specialists like Goullaud are riding high. With pet owners willing to pay more than $3,000 for canine pacemaker surgery, $1,250 for a stent and $600 for a CT scan, clinics are clamoring to add upscale services. I&#8217;m stunned at the fact a canine pacemaker even exists let alone the cost.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/12\/ace-ventura-pet-recruiter\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-8o","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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