The Secret to Standing Out in Your Laboratory Sales Job Search – Part VI

Today is the last piece of a 6-part series on how to stand out in your pharma sales job search.  Here’s what we’ve covered so far:

Part 1 – Rethinking your job search (and where you stand in it)

Part 2 – Using social media to help you land the career opportunity

Part 3 – Using the right tools to impress your interviewer

Part 4 – Position shadowing (a.k.a. pharmaceutical revenue field preceptorship)

Part 5 – Polish your interview skills

And today’s part 6 is:  Utilize Online Resources

There’s an fantastic variety of resources for you online, and you should use all of Them.

• Research interview tips online, including all the ones on this blog specifically for clinical sales, pharmaceutical sales, clinical device sales, pharmaceutical sales, and other health care revenue from the laboratory revenue recruiter.  You’ll find hundreds of articles dedicated to the job search, and tools guaranteed to improve your results as a candidate.

• YouTube is a great source for videos to assist you.  I have many videos for clinical sales professionals at the MedSalesRecruiter channel.

• Sign up for free one-hour webinars like these:

How to Land a Position in Medical Revenue

Position Search Boot Camp

• Don’t forget to use LinkedIn to research companies, as well as the people who work for and used to work for ‘em.  That’s going to be a rich source of information before your interview.

• Career Confidential has tools and products specifically designed to give you as much help as possible in your career opportunity search:  the LinkedIn profile tutorial so that you attract hiring managers, the 30/60/90-day plan templates and how-to coaching for it to impress them in your interview, the How to Get Into Lab Sales kit, movies, podcasts, and much more.

What I’m hoping that you’ve gotten out of all this is that it’s not just the tools and techniques that matter in your quest for a clinical sales career opportunity (even though they are very important and can absolutely be what pushes you over the finish line).  But overall, the secret to standing out in your position search is also about changing your strategy and thought process, understanding how you fit in the market, and knowing how to use every resource you’ve got to land the pharma sales position you want.

Article courtesy of  Peggy McKee - Owner / Senior Headhunter at the nationally
recognized pharma and pathology revenue recruiting team of PHC Consulting.
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