ABSTRACT
Even for all those who have done research, completed audits, gone on teaching courses and management away days, it can still be very diffi cult to stand out from the crowd. The job market is tough, and never has competition been fi ercer, with candidate-to-post ratios being reported as high as 100 to 1 in some specialties for hospital consultant posts. For all of these reasons you need to try to stand out from your peers as you move through specialist training. This chapter consolidates much of what has been discussed throughout this book and in the earlier companion book (Royal Society of Medicine Career Handbook: FY1 – ST2). However, sometimes you need to do something radically different and – like all good magicians – you need to pull a rabbit out of a hat.
