Execute Summary about Consider Being a Veterinary Technologist if You Love Animals

By Andi West

Veterinary Jobs

If you love working with animals and are looking for a fast track to a career working with them, consider becoming a veterinary technologist.  If you work as a veterinary technologist in a veterinarian’s office or animal clinic, you will spend part of your time doing crucial paperwork and part of your time working directly with pets of all shapes and sizes. Other tasks include grooming animals and assisting with routine procedures such as vaccinations, taking x-rays and performing lab tests.

A love of animals is, of course, essential to anyone pursuing a degree in veterinary technology. There are many career options available for anyone with a veterinary technology Associate’s Degree.

If you are interested in medical research or the sciences, there are many research facilities that rely on veterinary technologists to take care of animals in their biomedical research facilities. Many veterinary technologists work behind the scenes at zoos doing everything from preparing special diets for animals to taking care of newborn animals.

Larger cities with professionally staffed Humane Societies or SPCA’s often recruit vet techs with Associate’s Degrees to assist in caring for the many abused or abandoned animals that come to them. Many people don’t realize that pet food and pet supply companies also need veterinary technologists for their Research and Development divisions.

A career as a veterinary technologist requires a two year Associate’s Degree, which you should seek from a technical school that is approved by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA). Also contact animal hospitals, clinics and veterinarians who can suggest good vet tech programs in your area.

Execute Summary About The 8 Character Traits of Successful Veterinarians
By Keith Webb, DVM

Character Trait #1: Sales Focused : Successful veterinarians in any type of practice realize that 99% of their success or failure comes from the ability to successfully sell their product or service. Telephone conversion is simply salesmanship. Thus it is essential to learn and focus on developing your staff’s sales skills on the telephone of your practice. Top practice achievers use the telephone and make personal calls, if necessary, to build trust and make sales.

Character Trait #2: Strong Belief : The top successful practice owners believe in themselves. They believe in their products, their services and their clients. And they believe in the power of information to change lives for the better.

Character Trait #3: Results Oriented : They know that every ad placed, every postcard sent and every phone call brings them one step closer to creating a sales formula they can use over and over again.

Character Trait #4: Persistence : Many a talented person ends up on the scrap heap of life. Sylvester Stallone the movie star was rejected by over 300 agents before he found success. Every dynamic Gold Medal winner or top athlete persists through the hard time of training and disappointments.

Character Trait #5: Fun and Friendly : People love buying from people they trust and have fun with. If your clients are laughing, they are buying. Telephone conversion can be fun. Your practice is part of life (a big part for most people) – the more fun you have the more success you’ll have, the more sales you’ll make.

Character Trait #6: Have a Purpose : It is vital that you develop a purpose; a reason why, a grand quest that drives you every day. My purpose is to change people’s lives for the better, to bring more joy, peace and compassion to the world. What will drive you? Your family? Your religious beliefs? Your determination to create a better world?

Character Trait #7: Honesty and Trust/Dependability : All successful veterinarians deliver on their promises. The main reason why people won’t buy your product or service is because they don’t trust you. Trust has to be earned. Every call, every letter, every postcard, every personal contact builds the trust and gets you one step closer to creating the lifestyle you are after.

Character Trait #8: Activity Focused : The top veterinary performers focus their attention on sales related activities such as 30 follow up phone calls per day to generate appointments and build good will, mailing 100 postcards a day followed by a phone contact or placing ads, etc.

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