Or she. Or they. We'll champion anybody; these are just words to the song! National Selection is a competitive process and you have to fight tooth and nail to get an NTN. Unfortunately, there are often more applicants than jobs and not everyone will get the job they want. It can be truly soul-destroying to get knocked back with no consolation prize and the prospect of unemployment, but many (including us) have been there before. In this episode, we're joined by Yasir Tarar (Health Education North West) as we chat how to pick yourself up and dust yourself off, nurse your wounded ego, go job hunting, and find good Clinical Fellow jobs that treat you fairly, and give you the experience to springboard back into training far better than before. We discuss the different types of options you have; whether to go for an SHO, Clinical Fellow, or Research Fellow job, the hallmarks of a good department and the benefits of being a Clinical Fellow over a Specialty Trainee....who'd a thunk it?! There’s much to be said for the development you can do outside of a formal training position which leaves you ready to hit the ground running in ST3. To the underdogs; here’s to us!

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