Experienced Vets Career Advice

The latest Experienced Vets career advice from veterinary recruitment experts The Vet Service.

How to Become a Veterinary Radiologist/Diagnostic Imager

Dr Hannah Godfrey BVetMed MRCVS Taking and interpreting radiographs and performing ultrasound scans are skills that veterinary surgeons are expected to have to some level.

How to Become a Veterinary Oncologist

By Dr Joanna Woodnutt MRCVS Whether you’re a GCSE student, vet student, or GP vet, you might be considering the next stage of your career.

How to Become an Orthopaedic Veterinary Surgeon

By Dr. Hannah Godfrey BVetMed MRCVS If you’re fresh out of university or you’re a vet student looking ahead to your future career, you might

How to Become a Veterinary Cardiologist

By Becky Nicholson MRCVS Cardiology is a much-needed sub-discipline of veterinary internal medicine. Auscultation of the heart should be performed on every clinical examination. From

How to Become a Veterinary Internal Medicine Specialist

By Ruth Cawston MA VetMB CertAVP(SAM) MRCVS Becoming a vet opens doors to a whole variety of career options – both clinical and non-clinical. If

How to Support New Graduate Vets in Your Practice

By Sarah-Jane Molier MRCVS So, you’ve decided to take on a new graduate vet. You contribute the time and effort to train them, but they

How to Become a Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Specialist

By Dr. Alison Foucault DVM, MRCVS Unlike human doctors, veterinarians do not require further training after vet school in order to practice. A vast majority

How To Negotiate Your Salary as a Veterinarian

By Dr. Becky Nicholson MRCVS Whether you are looking to stay in the same job or move to pastures new, salary negotiation is inevitable in

How Do You Know It’s Time to Change Your Vet Job?

by Dr. Becky Nicholson MRCVS Changing your vet job can be an intimidating proposition. There is little spare time to job hunt, there’s a tendency

How to Go Part-Time in the Veterinary Profession

By Rebecca MacMillan BVetMed BSAVA PGCertSAM MRCVS The veterinary profession has seen many changes in recent years, one of those being the rise of flexible

What are the Changes to Farm Vet Jobs Globally due to Covid?

by Hollie Anne Hills The Covid-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on recruitment in the veterinary sector around the globe, and the profession continues

Should you Consider a Job as a Government Vet?

Dr. Hannah Godfrey BVetMed MRCVS Times are changing… These days, the possible career options available to the holder of a veterinary degree have never been

How to Improve your Salary as a Vet

By Rebecca MacMillan BVetMed MRCVS In the veterinary profession, we work hard and expect to be fairly compensated for this. Some practices are better than