Employment

Aroo, vet tech! We see you!
You don’t just enjoy pets.
Taking care of them is what you live for.
How yo do that is what sets you apart from most vet techs.

You are thorough and well organized. The vet tech that enjoys when everything has its own place and stays there. You get tasks accomplished like clockwork with all of your ducks in a row! You’re a master of balance, effectively caring for patients and their pets, while maintaining day-to-day work responsibilities. You’ve got the work drive of an Australian shepherd; the friendliness, loyalty, excitement and energy of a golden retriever.

You understand the power of communication. You’re always checking in with the rest of the team, as well as with patients. You even find little times throughout the day to have a conversation with a dog, tell a secret to a cat. You thrive in fast-paced environments, maintaining high-quality work and engaging customer service. People comment about how you remain calm under pressure.  Isn’t that what someone does who takes initiative to get things done? Is there any other way?

You’ve always been the go-to person, whether great times or tough. You’re reliable and responsive. You’re humble and enjoy working with others. You adapt well to change, even if it’s last minute.

Your ability to purrfectly balance long term and short term priorities are key to your success. You’ve honed your technical skills through experience. The curiosity to learn new things fuels you. Why try to force the world to adapt to you when you can grow and sharpen your skills? I mean, even dogs and cats can master a new talent and learn new tricks. Shouldn’t a vet tech be able to do better?

You’ve got at least 2 years as a Vet Tech or Vet Tech Assistant
If you have an RVT license, even better!
You’ve monitored anesthesia and assisted with surgery.
You know dental procedures,
lab work and x-ray experience.
Veterinary pharmaceuticals are your in your bag all day.

You love dogs, love cats, love all pets! Oh my!
How do I know so many of your amazing qualities and your superhero skills? And how in the world do you not realize how incredible you are?
Meow, listen, I still haven’t gotten to the best part
of what we’ve got in store for you…

It’s actually the humans you’ll be working with and for.
They genuinely care for each other here,
And staff ideas get heard, and implemented.
Your hands will bring healing and relief to pets in need,
at a place that feels like family,
The best kind of family that gets things done
and helps you achieve your career dreams.
Talk about living the dream!

Let’s talk about those dreams for a sec…
We support and even pay for career growth.
We love partnering to cover the cost of education
to fulfill a career dream, give you a new skill,
even to create a new area of service here.
That’s how our rehab therapy section started,
complete with water tank and tons of therapy gadgets.

What kind of family would we be
if we didn’t make sure that employees are happy?
We respect each other and have each other’s backs.
Yep. It sounds like paradise.
It is.
Petsadena is our little pet paradise in Pasadena.
You’ve always thought owners and pets deserve empathy and understanding.
This is the place it happens.

Pay starts between $22/hr – $30/hr
plus all these benefits…

• paid vacation

• 401K with 4% match when you put in 5%

• long term disability and life insurance

• 75% health insurance

• 100% dental coverage

• 100% vision cover

• 6 FREE sessions with a dedicated mental health therapist (your emotional well-being will allow you to care even more)

• Continuing education assistance

• Employee discount on pet services

• Paid RVT license

• Annual uniform allowance

• Veterinary service discounts and credits

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• lots of satisfaction in the healing of pets and happiness of owners friends that you’ll make for life

What’s the catch, you say?
Work hours are Mon-Friday, 8-5.
I know, I know, it seems too good to be true hours.
No overtime.
Just get it done time.

Holy crap, I can’t believe this sounds so awesome!
How do I sign up?
How do I sign up?
Please? Can I?

Play it cool, little Jack Russell terrier.
Don’t purr so loudly, codependent kitten.
Right meow you’re so tempted to send us your resumé.
That’s what all the job sites require. Unfortunately, a resumé doesn’t tell us much at all, except how many jobs you’ve worked in the past. It also doesn’t let us know that you can follow directions, especially when someone wants to make sure that you’re paying attention. So write us an email telling us what you connected to most in this job description. Include a story of a time you had to be a team player in a business setting and how that affected the way that you work and lead now. Don’t just make it a one or two sentence story.  Give us the details. Spill the beans.  Demonstrate your clarity and kindness and all yo’ bad skills. Then send it to dlopez@petsadena.com.

Oh, and one more thing. Some people skim these emails and only read what’s bolded. They look for the spot where it says “send us your resumé”, blast it off, and never even show up for interviews.  It’s all a big game to them. To avoid that, we need you to include #Aroo Vet Tech in the subject line. If your email doesn’t have that as the subject line, it’s going in the trash.
You’re not a skimmers. You’re a winner. You’re still reading!  We can’t wait to meet you.

Seriously, we want this job for you.
We want you to get the respect you deserve for being so great.
We know if we give you that,
You’ll thrive and make Petsadena even more awesome.

Someday we’ll look back at this email and laugh at how silly it was,
But also how wonderful it was to connect us together.
And our little paradise will spread to even more people.
Isn’t that what business ought to be about?
Hope to see you at Petsadena. 🙂

1. You love animals, have always been good with them and would love to help them and their owners all day long.
2. In fact, you’re a licensed RVT with certification from a rehab program like CCAT, CCRP or CCRT.
3. You’ve always been told that you have a good head on your shoulders by older people.
4. You’ve never understood exactly what was so special about you that people would tell you that.
5. Once someone else or yourself puts together a plan, you can figure out what to do and get it done.
6. If there’s a hole in the plan, you’re really great at communicating with the people involved to figure out the solution and once again, get it done.
7. You notice details.
8. You don’t skip the details.  Is that really all that special?  (You’d be surprised at some people, so YES!!!)
9. You don’t get rattled by problems, ‘cause you’re cool as a cucumber under pressure.  (Admit it, you know that’s special)
10. Once you’re done, you can let everyone know what happened and make sure everyone feels taken care of.
11. You’re not bothered by the way the last sentence ended with a preposition, but you sure did notice it.

• paid vacation
• 401K with 4% match when you put in 5%
• long term disability and life insurance
• 75% health insurance
• 100% dental coverage
• 100% vision cover
• 6 FREE sessions with a dedicated mental health therapist
• Continuing education assistance
• lots of satisfaction in the healing of pets and happiness of owners
• friends that you’ll make for life
• oh, and we’ll pay your RVT licensing fees

You’re friendly, good at communicating and insightful.
And you’re super down to earth.
You weren’t always this educated, degreed, credentialed and well-practiced vet
Who could probably practice at any clinic.
At one time you just had a knack for getting along with people,
You’ve never thought that your abilities qualify you for special treatment.
Everyone’s valuable, especially all those people not named you.

All throughout your education you could get your friends and other vet students excited the way you talked.
At one time you were dreaming of making a difference,
Being part of a movement to bring a higher standard of care for pets and their owners,
Something that wasn’t so corporate,
That had a soul, with deep roots to community,
A clinic where you could have time outside of vet work as well,
Maybe something with a team that was actually fun.

You’re doing fine at your current practice,
Got more than 2 years of experience.
But that dream is still alive and unfulfilled.

Sure you connect with patients and help pets regularly,
You’ve always been able to help people realize what’s best for their pet and get them to do it.
But you work too much,
Have to deal with so much focus on selling and KPI’s,
You don’t even think of suggesting changes,
Because you’ve seen so many be ignored before.

Doing fine is not thriving…
Keeping your head down for a paycheck is not thriving…

You deserve a place that lets you thrive and wants you to have a voice in helping us thrive as well.<
We’re dreamers too.
All throughout vet school, we wanted to create a clinic with world class care that everyone could come to…
Cutting-edge medicine with all the tools to diagnose accurately and provide treatment quickly,
A support team so doctors can focus more on pets and communicating to their owners,
Space to have a life, family, enjoy weekends,
Enjoying the people you work with,
Feeling the Feng Shui of the place you work in.

Your dreams could be alive and growing at Petsadena.
We like to call it a little pet paradise here in Pasadena,
An animal hospital where worries go away.

Here are some of the things we’ve implemented to  make our animal hospital one of the best

• ultrasound
• digital radiography
• endoscopy
• rhinoscopy
• full in-house lab.
• strong focus on dentistry procedures
• non-invasive rehab therapy with underwater treadmill

Despite all that stuff, that’s not what makes this place so special.
It’s the people and the support you deserve.
You’ll get your own support team so you can focus on the pets and owners
A 4-day work week with NO ON-CALL or overnight hours
No working on weekends.
You can’t.  We’re closed on weekends.<

When you have ideas of how to make things better,
Share them with us so we can implement them.
Then we’re going to celebrate you for the improvements you caused.
Seriously, ask any employee when you come in for an interview.
We take feedback from our team to heart and do everything we can to make it happen,
Because our team is the most important part of our business.
If you’re not being heard and cared for,
Ain’t nobody being heard or cared for.

Ok, let’s talk important detail$$$$.
We’re gonna pay FULL-Time you $150K-$200K/yr 
+ Signing Bonus
+ Production Bonus opportunities

plus all these benefits…

• paid vacation
• 401K with 4% match when you put in 5%
• long term disability and life insurance
• 75% health insurance
• 100% dental coverage
• 100% vision cover
• 6 FREE sessions with a dedicated mental health therapist
• DEA license reimbursement
• Continuing Education allowance
• friends that you’ll make for life

If you want to practice PART-Time, let’s talk about it.
We’d prefer full-time,
But we’re open to that for the right person, which we’re hoping you are.

We really mean taking care of you and our staff
We really mean it when we talk about taking care of pets and owners
We have a comfort room when people need time to mourn their pet’s end of life.
Our own staff have to use it some time.
Sarah McLachlan would be proud.

Now I know the standard thing to do is to Send Us Your Resumé,
And we do need to see where you went to school and the places you’ve worked.
We also want you to tell us some of the vet dreams you have
We want to be able to support those and dream with you from the start.
So write us an email with specifics about those dreams and where they came from.
If you want extra credit, record it on a video and send it with the email.
And if you want us to look at your application at all, put #all creatures dreamer# in the subject line.
If you don’t we’re not gonna read it.
We’re serious.  Good vets gotta notice details, even if they’re in charts.

We promise to have your back and make you feel like part of our fun family.
We know if we do that,
You’ll thrive here and make us the talk of L.A.
And someday we’ll remember this email and be happy that it got your attention,
And connected us in a wonderful, rainbow connection way,
So that our little paradise spreads to even more people in the world.
Isn’t that what business ought to be about?
Hope to see you at Petsadena.  🙂