— Your Career Hub · Start Here
A great career decision isn't luck. It's clarity, options, and leverage...and you can build all three.
Medicine taught you medicine. It skipped the part that decides how your career actually feels: how to see the whole market, tell a real opportunity from a good-looking one, and reach the decision with options in hand instead of hope. Start wherever you are in your search, and we'll show you the whole path.
Short reads and quick videos on the questions that actually decide your career. Start with whatever's on your mind, and pull the thread from there.
Start with these four
The cornerstone reads — evergreen, and they apply wherever you are in your search.
Your Recruiter Is Very Nice. That's Not the Same as Being on Your Side
What a recruiter can and can't tell you — and who to ask instead.
Read → 📄You'd Never Buy a House This Way
You'd inspect a house before buying it. How to inspect a job before signing.
Read → 📄The Questions They're Quietly Hoping You're Too Polite to Ask
The questions that feel rude are the ones that predict whether you'll be happy.
Read → 📄Your First Salary Will Haunt Every Salary After It
Every raise after it is a percentage of the first number you accept.
Read →Watch · With your Physician Advocate
Nick answers the questions physicians actually ask.
Nick Racine spent 20 years recruiting for hospitals, and reviewed 400+ contracts, before he crossed to your side of the table. Now he answers the questions physicians actually ask, a minute at a time, across a growing library of topics.
Five moments, five doorways. Start with the one you're in.
DISCOVER
Figure out what you actually want next.
Most searches start on a job board, which is really just a map of other people's staffing emergencies. Work out what you're actually building first. The listings can audition for that.
VALIDATE
Know what you're actually walking into.
Every posting is written by someone whose year depends on filling the seat. What you want is the call math, the turnover, and the reason this job is open at all. Ask before you're invested.
PURSUE
Create options before you need them.
Leverage isn't a personality trait, it's arithmetic — the number of people who'd be glad to have you. Build that number before you need it, quietly, while you still have time.
DECIDE
Compare the whole opportunity, not just the offer.
A handful of clauses do most of the damage, and the ones that cost the most usually don't have a dollar figure anywhere near them. Here's what to question before you sign.
MANAGE
Keep building leverage after you sign.
The job you accepted starts drifting the week you begin. Keep your own numbers, know your renewal date, and leave on your own terms when it's time.
Market Reports
Coming soon.
Real compensation and demand data for your specialty and your region, so "competitive" finally has to mean a number. We're building it.
Want this stuff in your inbox instead? Handoff is the career education med school skipped. Occasionally in cartoon form.