Where Would a Vet or Nurse Fit in Your Clinic’s Culture Story? - 297

Your job ad says, “We’re a friendly team.” But have you given a vet or nurse enough information to imagine joining that team?

Even an experienced vet can feel awkward walking into a new clinic’s lunchroom. A story about being invited to sit down takes on a different meaning when you know it happened in her first week.

In episode 297—the 14th in our sixteen-part REAL•CULTURE•STORY series—Julie South explores Orientation through the STORY lens: what’s felt. It’s the context that helps vets and nurses imagine their own place in the experience behind your job ad’s claim.

Using an imagined lunchroom experience, Julie shows how a team’s “friendly” invitation can help a vet or nurse recognise something they would appreciate when starting at a new clinic—and feel interested enough to ask about working there.

Previously in this STORY-segment series

• Episode 295 — Specificity: the details that help vets and nurses imagine an experience.
• Episode 296 — Truth: how polishing a team member’s story can remove what made it feel believable.

This episode covers

• Why years of clinical experience don’t remove the awkwardness of joining a new team.
• How knowing a vet’s situation changes what a friendly invitation means.
• Why asking “Tell us more” can still leave out the context a reader needs.
• Which follow-up questions help uncover why an experience stayed with a team member.
• How to preserve the team member’s own description of how it felt.
• How to Spot it, Source it and Share it in your Culture Story Centre, with a way for vets and nurses to ask about working with you.

Next week, episode 298 explores R for Relevance: does the experience in your story connect with what a vet or nurse wants from their working life?

Would you like help turning your job ad’s vanilla claims into Culture Stories that help Your Kind of People recognise Their Kind of Clinic? Contact julie@vetclinicjobs.com—even if you’re not filling a vacancy right now.

About your host

Julie South is the founder of VetClinicJobs and the host of Veterinary Voices. She has been in veterinary recruitment since 2019 and is known for her work in culture storytelling.

Julie helps forward-thinking vet clinics build the kind of genuine, specific culture evidence that attracts Their Kind of People long before any job ad runs.

She has spoken on culture storytelling and employer branding at VetEXPO in Melbourne and works with clinics across Australasia and beyond who want vets and nurses to be excited about going to work on Monday mornings—for all the right reasons.

Could Your Kind of People recognise Their Kind of Clinic?

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