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Writers enjoy letters from readers. Early in my blogging days, an encouraging word would keep me going when I wanted to stop. I’m grateful for such feedback. But not all letters were easy to read. Some of the hardest were the emails from unemployed pharmacists. They sounded to me like a cry for help....
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A guest post by my friend Alex Barker! Job transition is enjoying a revolution of sorts. Employers no longer expect employees to stay with a company for dozens of years, and employees no longer expect to stay put. A recent study by LinkedIn found that over the last 20 years, the number of...
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The following is an announcement from my friend Alex Barker. After reading about it, this seemed to me TOO GOOD not to share with my blog readers. So here is the information. I highly recommend looking into this, even if you are relatively happy with your career. Great exposure to what your...
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Here is a scenario that has played itself out thousands of times: You are cruising along in your career. You have an okay job, but not a great job. It isn’t really what you hope to be doing 5 years from now. But, because you are busy, you haven’t really invested a lot of …...
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Nothing like starting the week with a little trip down Satire Street. Thankfully all my friends in academia have a good sense of humor… t hit the newsstands like a ton of iron tablets. We knew the numbers were growing, but to see the data in cold print was shocking. Business analysts writing for...
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Lately I’ve been watching a bunch of tweets, posts and professional back-slapping going on about the news that pharmacists are apparently the most trusted health care professionals. I saw the news posted at NABP and DrugStore News and many other places. The original study that everyone seems to be...
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Board certification for pharmacists is rapidly becoming a standard for specialization in any of the many clinical career paths for pharmacists today. The process and study involved help differentiate pharmacists that want to improve their grasp of the pharmacotherapy for a particular type of health care...
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Can you have a successful career as a pharmacist and still maintain a great quality of life? That is a question that many would-be pharmacy students have asked me in the past. As I spoke at high schools or job-fairs about the pharmacy profession, young men and women would wonder what “life was really...
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One of the delights as a blogger and a pharmacist is to get letters from readers who have questions. You should know that I respond to each and every email I receive. While this takes valuable time, I consider it to be a part of my professional service to my fellow-pharmacists and pharmacy students....
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ome of my readers here at The Honest Apothecary know that I also write articles for other pharmacy-related organizations and websites. Maybe no article in recent history has stirred up so much interest at the article I wrote on the pharmacy job market for one of my favorite pharmacy publishing partners,...