Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition

DO engage the services of an independent firm to liaise with the Banks on your behalf – will ensure proposal is packaged for best chance of a positive response and also to negotiate best terms. DO ensure you provide an accurate summary of your current position including all savings and existing borrowing. DO ensure your CV is up to date with particular focus on any past Managerial experience. DO expect the Bank to want you to put down a contribution towards the purchase. DO undertake your own research of the local area and find out why the current owner is selling. Raising Finance? Tel: 08456 123 434 01707 653 260 www.ft-associates.com peakingrankly S Search for Frank Taylor and Associates Follow us @franktaylorassc D o you find yourself clock watching after lunch?! Do you spend Sunday nights dreading the upcoming Monday morning? Is the role not fulfilling your expectations? A new challenge is required then. What should you be bear- ing in mind if you wish to get the job of your dreams? Let’s start at the beginning: • Your CV. This may seem an obvious thing to say but it needs to be said because so many professionals still get it wrong. Do your best to avoid any gaps in the employment history. If there are gaps, make sure that you can adequately explain them. Not everyone is fantas- tic at spelling but you can get it checked by someone who is! Don’t embellish or lie – it will catch up with you. An on the ball recruitment agency will be able to review your CV and offer you advice on how and where to improve it. • How far will you travel? It is wise to be realistic – particular- ly if you will beholden to public transport! • CRB, GDC etc. As you would expect these all need to be in order and up-to-date. • Do you have good, solid ref- erences? Are you sure? It is not uncommon for some candidates to find that what they thought were references expressing how wonderful they were and an ideal employee, are quite different. • What type of role is it that you are looking for? Tempo- rary, permanent – have you considered a locum appoint- ment? The more flexible that you can be, the more posts will be open and available to you. • Salary. Quite possibly number one on your list?! It is of course a vital part of the process and one of the most important rea- sons for choosing or not choos- ing a role. Your expectations need to be realistic however. It is tough out there and many dental professionals can have an overvalued opinion of what they are worth. Have in your mind the minimum that you will consider and be open and honest about the numbers with any potential employer. There is no point in accepting an offer that you feel is too low and then whingeing about it for months to come – a frank dialogue is in everyone’s best interests. • Conditions and Benefits. These can be somewhat over- looked as many push for the salary above all else. A mistake – pension provision, holidays, flexible working hours can make a ‘maybe’ job become a ‘definitely’. • Appropriate dress and ap- pearance for interviews. This may come as somewhat of a surprise in a recruitment arti- cle for a professional magazine. In our experience though it is actually quite common for can- didates of any education to get it spectacularly wrong when at- tending interviews! All we sug- gest is that you give this some consideration – what is the role? Who am I meeting? What level of seniority will I be look- ing to hold? • Register with agencies that you can trust. It generally doesn’t cost anything to join an agency but choose with care and ideally a name that has been associated specifically with the healthcare profession for some time. At FT&A Medical we are in regular contact with so many practices and professionals – we are able to match up an unprecedented number of can- didates with vacancies. We are able to do this through the ex- tensive trust, reach and aware- ness in the dental marketplace that Frank Taylor and Associ- ates have built. DT Need a new challenge? Michael McCallion of FT&A Medical Recruitment offers jobseekers and candidates some useful advice... ‘A new challenge is required then. What should you be bearing in mind if you wish to get the job of your dreams? Let’s start at the beginning’ About the author Michael McCal- lion is Business D e v e l o p m e n t Manager of FT&A Medical Recruit- ment. Michael has huge experience in healthcare re- cruitment having worked in the sec- tor for over 7 years, initially helping provide the right medical and dental staff to the MoD and the NHS. He then worked as Business Development Manager for an agency that supplied the private as well as the public sec- tor. For more information on this news release, please contact Chris Baker at Corona Design & Communication on 0845 370 2211 or chris.baker@corona- dental.co.uk October 29 - November 4, 201216 United Kingdom EditionCareers