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Your Veterinary Dream Team: A Practical Guide to Attracting and Retaining Top Talent is the ultimate roadmap for veterinary practice owners, managers, and recruiters who want to build and sustain a high-performing team in today's competitive talent market. Finding and keeping great veterinarians, technicians, and support staff has never been more challenging. With more openings than qualified candidates, practices need more than luck to succeed. They need strategy. In this timely and practical guide, veteran recruiter Gwendolyn Lowder DeLavar, founder of VetProCentral and the National Veterinary Talent Acquisition Association (NVTAA), shares proven methods refined over 30 years in veterinary recruiting. Readers will learn how to... Write job postings that attract qualified veterinary candidates. Screen resumes and assess culture fit effectively. Conduct interviews that uncover true strengths and motivations. Partner successfully with external recruiters. Create a long-term retention strategy that keeps great team members engaged and loyal. Packed with real-world insights, ethical recruiting principles, and actionable templates, Your Veterinary Dream Team helps practices stop reacting to staffing shortages and start building stable, thriving teams. Whether you manage a single clinic or a multi-hospital group, this book gives you the tools to recruit smarter, hire better, and retain longer.

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Your Veterinary Dream Team is the roadmap that veterinary practices have been missing. Gwendolyn Delavar demystifies recruiting at the practice level, from building an in-house pipeline to knowing when to partner with an external recruiter. She blends ethics with practicality, tackling sensitive topics like poaching and contracts with clarity. Candid, actionable, and immediately usable. --Stacy Pursell, CPC, CERS, Founder and CEO, The VET Recruiter Gwen brings unmatched expertise, deep integrity, and genuine care for both practices and candidates to every page. Practice owners and managers will find this book both practical and inspiring, a guide grounded in ethics and wisdom from someone who truly understands the challenges and opportunities in veterinary recruiting. --Dani Rabwin, DVM, Founder and CEO, Ready, Vet, Go Your Veterinary Dream Team is a must-read for any practice leader looking to strengthen their hiring approach. It will quickly become the go-to reference for building teams that not only deliver excellent medicine but also thrive together. --Kieran Mara, President and Chief Executive Officer, EVG Specialty Gwen has created a guide to help every practice build their dream team. She has created a step-by-step resource that practice leadership can use to construct a team that works for all stakeholders: patients, clients, other team members, managers, doctors, and owners. --Peter Weinstein, DVM, MBA, President, PAW Consulting, Simple Solutions for Vets Seldom does a book on recruiting delve into the real drivers of recruiting success, namely authenticity and forward planning, from giving a road map to next-generation recruiting and growth planning, to a no-nonsense look at platforms and optimization of recruiting avenues. This book truly does justice to Gwen's exceptional legacy and more than three decades of recruiting success know-how. --Kelly Cronin, MBA, VTS ECC, CVT, LVT, Senior Account Executive, International Hiring Made Simple A must-read for anyone finding it difficult to recruit top veterinary talent, an essential resource for success in the rapidly shifting landscape of veterinary recruiting. --Rebecca Lakie, LVT and Pamela Harris, JD, VetNetAmerica Gwen has written the ultimate guide to help practice owners and managers understand how professional recruiters work and how they get paid. She takes the mystery out of the process. --Debbie Boone, BS, CVPM, President, Debbie Boone Consulting LLC

Author Information

Gwendolyn Lowder DeLavar is the founder and president of VetProCentral and the founding president of the National Veterinary Talent Acquisition Association (NVTAA). Since 1992, she has helped veterinary practices across the U.S. and internationally hire, train, and retain top talent. With over 30 years of experience, she is recognized as a trailblazer in veterinary recruiting and a trusted partner to practice owners, managers, and veterinarians. She continues to lead her San Diego-based recruiting firm alongside her daughter Julia, building stronger teams for a stronger profession.

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