Jeff Langmaid advises chiropractic students and new graduates to begin building a professional presence immediately. By starting early—creating an audience and learning to communicate a practice's message—you gain leverage when seeking associate positions or opening a practice, which can translate into better opportunities and higher income.
But I'll showcase some of what I've seen as, like, best practices and things that you can do immediately to start getting your name out there. Because as we'll talk about in a few minutes, I don't think it's ever too early. I think, like, now is the time where you should start, because we'll touch on this in a little bit. But the sooner you start, the more leverage you're going to have when you get out. And when you're trying to either open a practice, be nice to have an audience already there, or if you're going to be an associate, you actually have leverage as opposed to going in like, man, I really like a job. Well, so would a lot of other people. But if you have the ability to communicate the message of that practice, that's a far better position to be in. When you start a conversation with a doc about going in, and it's going to ultimately mean more money in your pocket, which is, you know, what anybody wants to do is get out and be successful. So a lot of what you do now will help that later on.
