Most Awarded and Recognised Recruit Agency in Australasia

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MedRecruit Continues to the Most Awarded and Recognised Recruit Agency in Australasia

Queenstown based leading medical recruitment agency, MedRecruit, has done it again; having been announced winner of the ‘Medium to Large Business of the Year Award’ at the Westpac Queenstown Business Awards on Saturday night.

This is the second time MedRecruit has been recognised at these awards after taking out a trifecta of awards, including the overall Supreme Award in 2010.

MedRecruit’s trophy shelf ought to be heaving; over the past four month’s they’ve picked up the 2012 Deloitte Fast 50 ‘Fastest Growing Business Services’ and ‘Fastest Growing Exporter’ awards for the lower South Island, the 2012 Australian SEEK SARA small specialist recruiter finalist award, and to top it off, Dr. Sam Hazledine was recently announced Ernst and Young ‘Young Entrepreneur Of The Year’.

“We’ve received a lot of accolades over the past few months and while it’s incredibly humbling, what’s more important is the impact we are having on our clients. These awards acknowledge the fantastic work of the team at MedRecruit and the belief the doctors and hospitals place in us to provide what they need right now - namely certainty for doctors to have both a life and career, and certainty for hospitals and GP Practices in their staffing.” Says MedRecruit’s Managing Director, Dr. Sam Hazledine.

MedRecruit has grown over 2,800% over the past six years and currently has staff of 27 people and growth continues with their offices in Queenstown and the Gold Coast continuing to recruit more staff to keep up with the demand.

Queenstown Chamber of Commerce CEO, Ann Lockhart, says the Awards aim to raise the bar across all aspects of business, encouraging business excellence and celebrating regional achievements in the business arena.

Ms Lockhart says judging focuses on management strategy, business improvement and achieving success.

“We have had the largest number of entries since the awards started in 1999 and they were the highest calibre this year which made judging incredibly difficult. MedRecruit stood out with their continued business growth and achievements since winning in the Supreme Award in 2010.

“It’s wonderful to see someone like Dr. Hazledine and his dynamic team based here in Queenstown – it just goes to show the calibre of business that’s possible in this dynamic town”, says Ms Lockhart.

Dr. Hazledine is the managing director of MedRecruit, a medical recruitment agency he started in 2006 specialising in working with doctors to place them in locum and permanent jobs so they can have both a fulfilling career and a great lifestyle. Over the past six years MedRecruit has transformed the medical industry to give doctors back their lifestyles, and in doing so has positively impacted the provision of healthcare throughout Australasia.

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More about Dr. Sam Hazledine

Thirty three year old Sam Hazledine holds himself to the highest standards in all aspects of his life. He persists until he is successful in everything he partakes in; from graduating from Otago Medical School in 2003, to convincingly winning the New Zealand Extreme Ski Championships by skiing the most dangerous lines and dropping a 90 foot cliff thereby qualifying for the World Tour later that year, to starting and growing MedRecruit into a successful profitable business at awesome speed.

Sam does not see obstacles as problems, rather as opportunities to overcome and to grow. In 2002 he sustained a life-threatening head injury which put him in a coma for two days. Doctors said he would probably not function at a high level again and that it was unlikely he would be able to return to medical school and he would certainly never ski again. Sam didn’t buy into this! Within two months he was back at medical school and one year later he won the national freeski title.

After realising his dream of winning the national extreme ski title in the winter of 2003, Sam started work as a junior doctor. He quickly saw that the medical system was not adapting and catering for the changing lifestyle demands of the new generation of doctors entering into medicine, and this was leading to an alarming 25% of medical graduates leaving New Zealand within three years of graduation.

After one-and-a-half years working in the hospital system as a salaried doctor, Sam decided to go locuming. He dealt with the big medical recruitment agencies and found their service lacking. All the agencies paid lip service to lifestyle, but none could actually deliver it to doctors. None of them had an objective way to match doctors to work that suited not only their careers, but also their lifestyles.

Sam saw the opportunity to help doctors achieve a lifestyle in medicine and an idea was born. But, for the idea to succeed, Sam had to approach it in a completely novel way compared to the established, traditional, agencies. To deliver what doctors really wanted Sam had to create a lifestyle-centric agency that had an objective way of matching doctors to jobs that matched their lives and careers.

Sam’s idea was met with disapproval from the medical establishment who wanted junior doctors to continue to ask no questions and do as they were told. The biggest medical recruitment agency in New Zealand actually threatened Sam, warning him of the competitive environment he was getting into and making it clear they would do what they could to ensure he failed.

Despite this, Sam knew what doctors needed and weren’t getting, and he wanted to deliver it to them. He also knew that innovative marketing was needed to get his message to doctors and he was determined to make it a success.

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