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Advertising of an employment vacancy can seem like it should be the least important part of your recruitment process. However, the marketing of your workplace and your employment offer has a direct influence on not just the number of applicants, but their quality – and a knock on effect on the satisfaction of your new employee once appointed, and their growth and longevity in that appointment.

Our most often repeated advice is to include a salary or salary range in your ad, as research shows this is a critical factor in the decision whether or not to contact you – and this is still the thing most frequently omitted from job ads in the veterinary industry. In addition, be specific about hours, rosters, and if you’re offering ‘flexibility’ give some indication of exactly what form that flexibility would take.

Kookaburra Services

Marketing is distinct from advertising. While some advertising providers in the veterinary industry compare their platform to others, at Kookaburra Veterinary Employment we prefer to let our services speak for themselves.

So, what does Kookaburra offer? Everything below is included in our single service for marketing of part time, full time, or casual vet jobs, and this service and prices are exactly the same for corporate clinic owners as for independently owned clinics, to keep recruitment a level playing field no matter the size of the employer.

Our Vet Service includes:

• Online advertising on website kookaburravets.com in as many categories as required, no limit on the number of words, reasonable updates to wording as required, with a photo gallery of up to 12 photos. Help with proof reading and advice on structure of adverts. Inclusion of clinic branding (logo), and hyperlinks to clinic homepage and social media. Inclusion of direct application link for online applications if provided by clinic.
  Highlighted advert for initial 4 weeks.
  While jobs are listed in a summary on a geographical basis, the actual advert wording is rotated from the bottom to the top of the page every 4 weeks, so no ad gets lost at the bottom of the page, irrespective of the amount of time it’s been listed.
• The team also pro-actively checks the clinic branding to make sure we’re using the most up to date logo, website, socials etc – many clinics undergo upgrades, modernization, or re-branding, and forget to let Kookaburra know.
• An individual job advert page online, including set up of social media tags for a title, short job description and clinic specific image, so that the clinic-branded page can be shared on online platforms, and linked to, with no restriction.
• Personal marketing of the vacancy to individual suitable vets on the Kookaburra database (and maintenance of that job seeker database).
• Inclusion in a weekly job list sent by email to all job seeking vets on the Kookaburra database
• Inclusion in a fortnightly job list with new and recent graduate friendly vacancies, if applicable, sent to the Australian & NZ university veterinary faculties and from them distributed to their students, and also available to any subscribers to this mailing list, as well as sent to any new or recent graduates listed on the Kookaburra database. New jobs are highlighted, and once jobs are filled or removed, this is also noted on the job list to give feedback to applicants.
• Listing on the Kookaburra Jobs app, which is free and available worldwide on the App Store. It will also be available on the Google Play Store as an android version later in 2025. Jobs are displayed geographically on a map, as well as in a list. Users can sort jobs; filter according to multiple categories such as telemedicine, visa sponsorship, suitability for new grads; save favourite jobs, and set their preferred search area. They can also search for particular job descriptions or clinic names.
• Contact with the advertiser is initiated by a Kookaburra team member every 4 weeks to check that the advertising is still reflecting their needs and to offer to make alterations if required.
• Kookaburra will provide documentation of advertising and costs on request to clinics requiring such for Home Affairs in order to support Visa sponsorship applications, at no additional cost.

In order to list a vet job with Kookaburra Veterinary Employment, email the team on jobs@kookaburravets.com

Our aim is to fill jobs, and every job filled causes a little celebration in the Kookaburra office 🍾🥂

From Animal Attendants to Zoo Vets

Author:

Wendy Nathan
Kookaburra Veterinary Employment

This information includes the views and opinions of Kookaburra Veterinary Employment and is of a general nature only. Factual information is believed to be correct at the time of writing, however, should not be relied upon and any person should confirm details with the relevant authorities and through their own research prior to acting on any of the suggestions in this article.

Every time I visit the city, I have an amazing time – as a tourist – enjoying the nightlife, the amazing shows, music and events, marveling at the frequency of public transport, and the bustling vitality. And every time I leave, I’m so glad to be living my normal daily life in a regional area.

As an immigrant to Australia,  I really feel I’m living the Australian Dream. I can afford a house, with a backyard, a dog, 3 cats (indoors of course). Rush-hour happens for 10 minutes when parents picking up from school queue to get on the roundabouts. I’ve lived inland, on acres, with horses, chickens, cattle, alpacas, a veggie garden, and at the coast, where it’s been a 2 minute walk to the beach and I frequently have the beach all to myself. I’ve always got to know and socialize with my neighbours and the local community. Despite having no actual family living nearby, my kids have grown up with an extended community family through all sorts of activities, in family day care, playgroup, sports, music, and then primary and high school, where we run into and keep in touch with the same families over and over again.

Shopping is easy as I can drop in to the shops on my way somewhere else – it doesn’t take long, and we choose from what’s available. And online shopping is our friend for anything we can’t get locally. Local business owners are members of our community.

There’s always a thriving arts and culture scene in regional areas – and it’s so welcoming. We make our own entertainment. I have sung in choirs, performed in local theatre, played in orchestras. Local sport of all types brings the community together.

Being a vet opened all of this up to me – we’re so privileged to be easily able to have this regional lifestyle due to our professional qualification, when many people find themselves unable to stay in regional areas once they’ve moved there, due to the lack of work opportunities.

If you’re thinking about moving to regional NSW, currently there’s a support package for essential workers, which includes employees in Veterinary services, which has come out of the recent Inquiry into the veterinary workforce shortage in NSW. For more information about The Welcome Experience, visit NSW Government | The Welcome Experience

Author:

Wendy Nathan
Kookaburra Veterinary Employment

This information includes the views and opinions of Kookaburra Veterinary Employment and is of a general nature only. Factual information is believed to be correct at the time of writing, however, should not be relied upon and any person should confirm details with the relevant authorities and through their own research prior to acting on any of the suggestions in this article.

You can look at the app and website and receive the fortnightly newsletter through your University or direct via mailchimp, but did you know that you can also register your dream job outline with Kookaburra?

The veterinary employment market has been very buoyant in recent years but that has not always been the case nor will it always be. We are already seeing a contraction of the vet job market in Australia as belts are tightened in response to a worsening economic climate and, sadly, pet health is often one of the first things to suffer. I vividly recall an extended period in the past when practices were very resistant to employing graduates and the heartbreak that caused when graduates could not find work and were forced to move into other industries. Hopefully that will never happen again but you can future proof yourself by registering with Kookaburra now.

Why Bother?

You will be the FIRST to hear about every suitable vacancy before it is even live on our website – you won’t have to wait to receive a newsletter.

You will ONLY receive notification of jobs that suit your own personal criteria – you tell us what your perfect job looks like and that’s what we’ll consider when sending you jobs.

You will START a lifelong relationship with Kookaburra – we’ll be there for you whenever it’s time for a new challenge, reactivating your registration when you tell us it’s time to change jobs.

You will have ACCESS to an important resource – Kookaburra has immense knowledge of all things job-wise in the veterinary industry and we’re happy to share that with you.

You can BROADEN your horizons by registering for jobs anywhere in the world – let us know you’re prepared to work with sun bears in Borneo or elephants in Thailand or whatever your interest is and we’ll share those jobs with you as received.

Above all else, we actually care about finding you the right place within the veterinary industry and we’re here to support you while you discover your passion.  When you graduate, Kookaburra will likely be there as well, providing your graduating class with a photo booth for the night or gifts such as wireless phone chargers or pick-me-up candy or by financially supporting your year’s special projects.

Bother spending two minutes now to reap the rewards of being a Kookaburra vet! Click on this registration link: www.kookaburravets.com/Australia/VregOz1.asp

Author:

Paula Strong
Kookaburra Veterinary Employment

This information includes the views and opinions of Kookaburra Veterinary Employment and is of a general nature only. Factual information is believed to be correct at the time of writing, however, should not be relied upon and any person should confirm details with the relevant authorities and through their own research prior to acting on any of the suggestions in this article.