Hello all,
Are there any jobs for dentistry graduates out there?
I have searched:
Seek - 5 Melbourne positions advertised, no jobs for grads,
DJS - 761 dentists looking for work, 138 jobs advertised. Only 3 jobs in Vic that would consider dent grads.
Dental jobs victoria - 0 positions for dentists, let alone grads.
Career one - 0 positions for dentists in Vic, let alone grads.
Am I missing something?
Or is anyone without a position lined up in their parents practice going to be unemployed?
And on the synstrat website:
Message to New Dental Graduates
Dental unemployment is going to be high for at least the next six years, unless new places in dental schools were drastically reduced from the 2014 entry point onwards and the dental immigration program is halted immediately. The reality is that places in dental schools in 2013 have already been allocated. Furthermore, a substantial number of overseas trained dentists are in Australia and preparing themselves for Australian Dental Council exams. Therefore, dental unemployment will grow much worse before it begins to improve. Unless you are one of the fortunate few who have a position to go to, it will be necessary that you consider alternate employment and/or other vocational training. The occasional dental vacancy is attracting huge numbers of applications and it will be unwise to place reliance on your ability to gain a position in the near future. The longer the period between your graduation as a dentist and obtaining employment, the harder it will become. You must seriously consider the alternative of pursuing alternate employment and/or other vocational training immediately.
Message to Prospective New Dental Students
You need to reappraise your situation urgently. By all means, approach dentists you know for another opinion and most will be connected to a dental network and be able to provide objective advice based upon what the network of dentists that they connect to are saying. You’ll be wise to consider a change of enrolment into some other field of study, even if it means working for a gap year and commencing a different course in 2014.
Regards
Latrobe.dent.student
Are there any jobs for dentistry graduates out there?
I have searched:
Seek - 5 Melbourne positions advertised, no jobs for grads,
DJS - 761 dentists looking for work, 138 jobs advertised. Only 3 jobs in Vic that would consider dent grads.
Dental jobs victoria - 0 positions for dentists, let alone grads.
Career one - 0 positions for dentists in Vic, let alone grads.
Am I missing something?
Or is anyone without a position lined up in their parents practice going to be unemployed?
And on the synstrat website:
Message to New Dental Graduates
Dental unemployment is going to be high for at least the next six years, unless new places in dental schools were drastically reduced from the 2014 entry point onwards and the dental immigration program is halted immediately. The reality is that places in dental schools in 2013 have already been allocated. Furthermore, a substantial number of overseas trained dentists are in Australia and preparing themselves for Australian Dental Council exams. Therefore, dental unemployment will grow much worse before it begins to improve. Unless you are one of the fortunate few who have a position to go to, it will be necessary that you consider alternate employment and/or other vocational training. The occasional dental vacancy is attracting huge numbers of applications and it will be unwise to place reliance on your ability to gain a position in the near future. The longer the period between your graduation as a dentist and obtaining employment, the harder it will become. You must seriously consider the alternative of pursuing alternate employment and/or other vocational training immediately.
Message to Prospective New Dental Students
You need to reappraise your situation urgently. By all means, approach dentists you know for another opinion and most will be connected to a dental network and be able to provide objective advice based upon what the network of dentists that they connect to are saying. You’ll be wise to consider a change of enrolment into some other field of study, even if it means working for a gap year and commencing a different course in 2014.
Regards
Latrobe.dent.student
