layout: true background-image: url(../../images/slide_background.jpg) background-size: cover class: center, middle --- # Supporting other and younger vets ### Short Quotes --- ### “ … they needed more of a technical support it wasn’t so much as a mental support, it was more they needed people to come out and do the job for them or with them or teach them how to do it.” --- ### “Some of these small practices have to understand that they have to treat people right – they want an experienced vet but they’ve got an inexperienced one, well you have to treat them differently.” --- ### “I remember what it’s like if you don’t have sympathetic senior people around you and you’re left to your own devices. I still bear the scars.” --- ### “You have to accept that you’re going to have younger inexperienced people around and that the older people have to be prepared, to be around have to sort them out.” --- ### “… it’s a case of giving a bit of support and encouragement but also for them to try and find their own interests.” --- ### “Speak about it to someone more senior, explain what’s happened, don’t try to hide it and then they can tell you if it’s, well, “that was going to die anyway, that wasn’t your fault”.” --- ### “in our practice now, we do have mentoring now. It’s not the person that’s necessarily controlling your career path or your internship, its somebody aside from that who you can just talk to.” --- ### “Well within xxxx we have an intern programme every year so it’s in their hands and for them to look at.” --- ### “ I advise new graduates to find practices where there’s multiple vets, where there’s an age range of vets - ideally another new grad or another 2/3 year grad – who they can socialise with, talk to.” --- ### “the first time – that’s the really difficult part when you’ve just qualified. When you’ve just qualified and you’ve never done it before. See once you’ve done it, it’s fine. You know that you can do it.” --- ### “Give them background about the clients as well so that they know a bit about them so they can chat with them – or “don’t mention this, talk to them about that”. Just so they get in a bit quicker. --- ### “there are little groups that some of the drug companies do – like a pizza evening – so they (young vets) can go and meet other vets in that area so we encourage that.” --- ### “Often their (new grads) knowledge is better, more up to date.” --- ### “Some vets don’t call help enough because they think it’s a sign of weakness or can’t bring themselves to do it or some call too readily and that can be a drain on the people around them.” --- ### “sometimes you have to say to someone, look you’re really good, you can do this.” --- ### “I’m late 50s now. It’s nice to see and help the development of the younger colleagues – there’s satisfaction in seeing them develop.” --- ### “My first job, they took the phone for the first three months and would know if it was OK for me alone or to go out with me.” --- ### “You have to accept that you’re going to have younger inexperienced people around and that the older people have to be prepared to be around to sort them out.” --- ### “… to have people assigned as a mentor within the practice and they go to their mentor with stuff.”