by Daniel Shifrin | Aug 4, 2023 | Blog, General, Professional Skills
I was in management for over thirty years in my hospital’s pharmacy department. I made a lot of key decisions. 99% of the time; they were good decisions. However, I’d be the first to admit that I had a few bad ones. When I left my last hospital, I got a job in a...
by Alex Barker | Jul 12, 2023 | Career, General, Success Story
Imagine being a pharmacist who feels trapped and unfulfilled in their career. That’s exactly how Anais Lee* felt before she found a way to break free and create a brighter future for herself. Anais was working in a hospital pharmacy, but the repetitive tasks and...
by Daniel Shifrin | Jun 3, 2022 | Blog, Career, General, Professional Skills
Evaluations— they were a necessary evil of my job. I didn’t like writing them, I didn’t like giving them. My staff didn’t like getting them. So why did I do them? Two reasons: 1) Management thought that employees liked or needed feedback about how well they were...
by Emmanuel Obaseki | May 19, 2022 | Career, Career Path, General, Interview, Network, Pharmacy Student, Professional Skills
By going through pharmacy school, you have a well-rounded background in various areas, including communication skills through delivering presentations and counseling patients, motivational interviewing experience, and some degree of technical writing experience. The...
by Alex Barker | May 16, 2022 | Career, Career Path, General, Network, Pharmacy Student, Resume
We have all been at various points in our lives where we felt we have had enough and desired a change. It could be breaking free from an addiction, deciding to start a family, or in this case leaving a job where you have been unhappy and stressed. However, a few days...
by Daniel Shifrin | Apr 27, 2022 | General, Side Hustle
What’s a second act? As I said in a previous article, it’s the ability to reinvent oneself. Some people do something that they’re really good at. Or sometimes, a second act involves doing something that one always wanted to do. For the most part, it usually...
