As a recruiter I run into several types of pharmacists in my business. Now let me begin by stating that I love my job and 99.99% of the pharmacists I work with are excellent and truly make it a pleasure to come to work. I look at it this way. I get to converse with intelligent and articulate people and I get to increase my learning curve and I get to help people find jobs ......... and I get paid pretty well to do it as well.
The ones that piss me off are the ones with the attitude that everybody owes them something and they take advantage of the situation of the market place.
Now I understand the principal of supply and demand, and that you should be compensated appropriately. In our business we generally offer the relief pharmacist about 20-25 % more than the typical staff rate to start rate to offset the lack of benefits and so forth. We don't charge the candidate for this service as our clients pay us to find good people to work for them.
If mileage is applicable we offer it as well as we build it into the rate with the formula of $ x kms / total hours of the shift or shifts. This is not taxed as heavily as if the usual payroll rate.
What gets me pissed off is that when the contractor wants driving time as well at the premium rate. This can add as much as 20-25% increase that we have to upcharge the client. Now I might be mistaken but when you are travelling to an assignment you aren't dispensing medication so why should you be paid at the premium pharmacist rate for this travel ??
We like to be fair to you, if a flight is applicable we fly you in and take care of accommodations, give a meal per diem, and arrange taxi or rental car.
In my humble opinion if you're a good pharmacist and your rates are competative you'll have no problem finding work. If you fall into the small percentage where you want the world and then some and offer an inferior service as well ......... then you better get a comfortable chair because you'll be sitting in it along time before I'd call you for a gig. So you'd better look at the big picture and understand what's involved from all sides :lol:
The ones that piss me off are the ones with the attitude that everybody owes them something and they take advantage of the situation of the market place.
Now I understand the principal of supply and demand, and that you should be compensated appropriately. In our business we generally offer the relief pharmacist about 20-25 % more than the typical staff rate to start rate to offset the lack of benefits and so forth. We don't charge the candidate for this service as our clients pay us to find good people to work for them.
If mileage is applicable we offer it as well as we build it into the rate with the formula of $ x kms / total hours of the shift or shifts. This is not taxed as heavily as if the usual payroll rate.
What gets me pissed off is that when the contractor wants driving time as well at the premium rate. This can add as much as 20-25% increase that we have to upcharge the client. Now I might be mistaken but when you are travelling to an assignment you aren't dispensing medication so why should you be paid at the premium pharmacist rate for this travel ??
We like to be fair to you, if a flight is applicable we fly you in and take care of accommodations, give a meal per diem, and arrange taxi or rental car.
In my humble opinion if you're a good pharmacist and your rates are competative you'll have no problem finding work. If you fall into the small percentage where you want the world and then some and offer an inferior service as well ......... then you better get a comfortable chair because you'll be sitting in it along time before I'd call you for a gig. So you'd better look at the big picture and understand what's involved from all sides :lol:
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