Posts under ‘Career Coach’

Today’s job search is unlike any we’ve seen before.  Competition is especially fierce for medical sales career opportunities in this economy, and candidates get weeded out quickly.  If you’ve landed the interview, you got to bring your best game right off the bat and knock the socks off the hiring manager.  One of the most effective [...] Related posts:

1. Clinical Sales Position Interview and Preparation Coaching Did you ever wish you had the “inside track” at…
2. How Interview Coaching Can Help You Get a Medical Sales Position Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer?…
3. Should you hire a career coach to role play some career opportunity interview questions? You know the drill for clinical revenue job interviews:  research,…

Did you ever wish you had the “inside track” at your pharma sales position interview?  Or that you knew exactly how to explain that slightly difficult/embarrassing/sensitive situation in your career opportunity history?  Or even the very best way to explain who you are and what you do in a compelling, “hire me” kind of way?  Maybe [...] Related posts:

1. How Interview Coaching Can Help You Get a Pharmaceutical Revenue Position Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer?…
2. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Pharmaceutical Sales Career opportunity Interview – Part V If you’ve been in the position search very long for…
3. The Importance of Questioning Skills in Your Clinical Sales Job Interview It might surprise you to know that asking questions of…

If “no experience” is stopping you from the dream position that you desire?
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1. Don’t Sabatoge Your Career opportunity Search By Making This Critical Interview Mistake Just got off a coaching call with a candidate who…
2. Career Coach does CPR on Job Seeker’s Search! Listen to the job seeker here: Jennifer M. tells all about how a career coach (that…
3. Asking (closing) for the next step in the interview… I was prepping one of my candidates for an interview…

Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer? Or not even getting called back for a second interview?
Maybe there’s some issue you don’t have a great explanation for: a gap in your employment history, why you’re willing to take a pay cut in a new job, why you’ve been out of [...] Related posts:

1. What You MUST Ask Before You Leave The Interview To prepare for a job interview in pharmaceutical or health…
2. Typical Phone Interview Queries for Medical Sales Jobs Phone interviews can be deceptively casual to some medical sales…
3. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Medical Sales Job Search – Part I I’m starting a new 6-part series on how to stand…

You know the drill for medical revenue job interviews:  research, prepare, and be willing for the toughest interview queries.
There are some career opportunity interview questions for health care sales jobs that inevitably travel candidates up.  “What’s your greatest weakness?“  is a famous one.   The typical advice you’ll usually find is to prepare for the interview by [...] Related posts:

1. Should you hire an interview coach? There’s tremendous amounts of advice you can find in books…
2. Funny Job Interview Video: The Origin of Job Interviews I discovered this on YouTube–The Origin of Job Interviews from…
3. Ten Popular Behavioral Interview Musings for Pharmaceutical Sales Behavioral interview questions are the norm for job interviews in…

As a pathology revenue recruiter, I get almost every day inquiries from people who would like to be in pharmaceutical sales even though they have no sales background and want to know what they should do.  I’m never surprised to get these calls.  Pharma sales is (I think) the major tier of sales categories, and there [...] Related posts:

1. How Does a Nurse Transition into Pharmaceutical Sales? Clinical Device Sales? Pathology Sales? Here’s a Job Search Strategy for You Nurses have a few natural advantages when it comes to…
2. Tips for Landing a Medical Revenue Job The term “clinical sales” covers a lot of area: clinical…
3. Nurses: Looking for a Career Change? Think About A Transition Into a Laboratory Sales Career If you are a nurse who is thinking about a…

If it’s true that 55% of pharmaceutical device sales professionals will be looking for a new job this year, then odds are nice that you might be one of Them.   Even with the ‘churn’ in the market this year, pharma device is a great place to be.  There are amazing positions available for the right [...] Related posts:

1. Find a Mentor for Your Medical Sales Career I discovered a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out…
2. Nurses: Looking for a Career Change? Think About A Transition Into a Clinical Sales Career If you are a nurse who is thinking about a…
3. Pharma Device Revenue Rep Uses Career Coaching to Wordsmith… Here’s Melissa’s story:  I went through a very difficult career…

There’s tremendous amounts of advice you can find in books and online for how to answer job interview questions, and some of it says to practice your interview answers with a friend, or movie yourself so that you can play it back to see your weak spots.  It’s precious advice.  It’s always harder to critique [...] Related posts:

1. “Umm, Uh… Could you, like, NOT hire me?”: How to Underwhelm Your Career opportunity Interviewer Position interviews generally make people nervous, and understandably so:  you’re…
2. Medical Revenue Interview Question Tip: “You Don’t Have Experience…Why Should We Hire You?” Would you like to transition into medical sales? What if…
3. “Do you’ve any questions?” (The answer is “Yes!”) The other day, I conducted a phone interview with…

I bought my husband Kraig a new electric guitar for his birthday in July.  He’d wanted one for a while, and has tooled around with it beautiful consistently, about 20 minutes a day–and he’s not bad.  But, as he said me, he’s “plateaued”.  He’s gone as far as his skills will take him, and [...] Related posts:

1. How Can Career Coaching from the Medical Sales Recruiter Help You? As a clinical revenue recruiter, I spend a lot of…
2. Clinical Device Revenue Rep Uses Career Coaching to Wordsmith… Here’s Melissa’s story:  I went through a very difficult career…
3. Tired of interviewing and not getting that sales job you want? Career Coaching works! Job Seeker to Peggy: The phone interview was a bust….

There’s an article on EmploymentDigest.net that you should see.  It’s about how finding a mentor can help you advance your career, but it also has several important points about how to choose a career mentor, keeping in mind that your manager, recruiter, or your friend might not be the best choices for you.  A manager, [...] Related posts:

1. Find a Mentor for Your Pharmaceutical Sales Career I discovered a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out…
2. How Can Career Coaching from the Laboratory Sales Recruiter Help You? As a clinical sales headhunter, I spend a lot of…
3. Careers for lab professionals who want to get off the bench: molecular, cyto, histo, med tech, etc. When we go off to college, sometimes we choose a…