It goes something like this, “Now that I’m out of a job, I might as well go back to school,” according to Jay Walls, a representative of the University of North Texas graduate school.

The turnout Wednesday for the Graduate & Professional School Fair held on the campus of Abilene Christian University bore out that thinking.

A steady flow of prospects began circulating through the exhibit room shortly after the fair started. Walls wasn’t surprised.

“Enrollment has gone up because of the economy,” he said. “Schools tend to do better when the economy is down.”

Wednesday’s fair was sponsored by the West Central Texas Career Consortium, which consists of eight local colleges and universities and Dyess Air Force Base.

Ben Klein, who is on schedule to receive a master’s degree in clinical psychology from ACU in May, credited the economy with forcing him to make some decisions. Klein browsed the tables set up by about 25 institutions, picking up literature and learning about their doctoral programs.

“If more jobs were out there and more money was out there, I might just stop with my master’s,” Klein said.

But because of limited well-paying positions for clinical psychologists with only a master’s degree, Klein decided to check out doctoral programs.

And, he is looking into possibly joining the military as a means of paying for the degree. At least two branches of the service — Army and Air Force — offer scholarships for doctoral degrees with a military commitment after graduation, Klein said.

Deciding to go directly into a doctoral program, rather than working first, and getting the military to pay for it is a direct result of a slumping economy, Klein said.

Jace Jones, who was manning a table for the University of North Texas School of Public Health, faced the same situation as Klein. He has a master’s degree in health policy and management, but a doctorate is needed for higher-paying jobs.

So, Jones decided to increase his value by working on a doctorate. He would have started work with the master’s degree if good jobs had been available.

“There just weren’t that many out there,” he said.

On the flip side, the recruiting is picking up.

“It’s been kind of good for graduate schools,” he said.

Another man with an easy job Wednesday was Make Nall, who represented the Texas Tech University School of Pharmacy in Abilene.

The school has enrolled 40 students each year since opening, with a current enrollment of 120. Next year’s 40 will bring the school to its maximum enrollment. Even without a bad economy, the pharmacy schools gets more applicants than it can handle, Nall said.

Last year, between 600 and 700 people applied. But the economic downturn has brought some unusual applicants such as a chiropractor and a few physicians. The physicians are applying from rural areas, Nall said, because small clinics are hiring more physician’s assistants than doctors. Physicians leaving those clinics are enrolling in pharmacy schools because the entry level pay for a pharmacist can be as high as $140,000 a year, Nall said.

Another recruiter not having any trouble Wednesday was Mark Cortez, field representative for Walden University, an accredited online institution of higher learning. The flexibility offered by an online education draws working people and other nontraditional students, Cortez said. The poor economy just adds to the mix.

“It’s been big,” Cortez said. “People have been having a hard time finding a job.”

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Flame Health Pharmacist Jobs – Pharmacy Manager Job – Barnsley, South Yorkshire

Flame Health’s Pharmacy division are currently recruiting for a Pharmacy Manager in the Barnsley Area.

Our client is a national leader within the food sector and operates over 2000 stores across the UK, Ireland, Central Europe and Asia. They are currently expanding their existing pharmacy operation within the UK and are looking for Pharmacy managers who want to develop themselves and the business, are passionate about providing excellent patient care and who are looking for a challenge within the sector of community pharmacy.

Reporting to the Regional Pharmacy Manager, Your role within the operation will be diverse and will be based around leading, motivating and coaching your team and improving their skill set so that they are able to deliver excellent patient care and achieve the financial targets as agreed with the pharmacy operations team.

You will also be responsible for ensuring effective working relationships are developed with the Primary Care Organisations (PCO) and surgeries within the local area and ensuring that all services within the company pharmacy agenda that are commissioned by the PCO are delivered to a high standard and the team are striving towards achieving market leader status within your region. As a pharmacy manager within this leading organisation, a large part of your role will be to lead the “great service for pharmacy” culture within the department.

You will also be responsible for the scheduling to ensure that your team work the right hours to support the operation, making sure that the Pharmacy complies with all the relevant legal and ethical guidelines, be visible to patients whilst ensuring that they receive advice with prescriptions and medicines from your pharmacists and team members in addition to conducting face to face consultations where appropriate.

From an Operational and finance perspective, your role will encompass full responsibility for the delivery of financial targets for the pharmacy department to include: Sales Targets, staff costs including locum usage, development of your own proactive business plans to deliver targets and to facilitate these weekly one to one meetings will take place within the store to review progress. In return you will receive outstanding benefits, training and development including the largest amount of time off for CPD within the market and the opportunity to develop your career in the larger pharmacy operation or within the global retail arm.

For more information, please contact Flame Health on 0800 085 0858 or email careers@flamehealth.com

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