Posts under ‘Clinical Diagnostics’

Today I’m bringing you a tip that does double duty:  check out Mark Hunter‘s article 3 Ways to Stop Being Afraid of Closing. Mark is an outstanding source for sales tips, but this one is also great advice for career opportunity seekers–because the job search is a sales process and that means you have to close [...] Related posts:

1. Position Interview Questions and Answers for Medical Sales: What You’ve to Prove In the Interview If you’ve been in the job market very long, you…
2. Boost Your Clinical Sales Performance   Sharpen your sales skills! In the video scene below, I’m…
3. Maximize Your Business Using Revenue Analytics   Many medical sales managers and reps don’t know much…

Dear Clinical Sales Manager: I’m a brand new medical device sales rep.  I am just starting to meet everyone in the company, and I’ve been warned about office politics, and want to make sure I get off on the right foot.  Got any advice? Dear Clinical Sales Rep— The biggest thing I want you [...] Related posts:

1. Getting Started as a New Pharmaceutical Revenue Rep: How to Handle the Details Dear Clinical Sales Manager: I’m thrilled to report that I…
2. Boost Your Clinical Sales Performance   Sharpen your sales skills! In the movie below, I’m…
3. Extraordinary Networking for Medical Sales!   Making the right contacts, or networking, is critical to…

Trade shows are fantastic places to extend your networking contacts and start poking around for hidden jobs.  You can find one for just about any clinical revenue arena–medical device, clinical, clinical diagnostics, orthopaedic manufacturing, and on and on–and they’re usually free for attendees.  As long as you’re respectful of the exhibitor’s real purpose for being [...] Related posts:

1. Medical Sales Hidden Position Market: Cold Calling Works To drum up new business, you sometimes have just got…
2. Extreme Networking for Pharma Sales!   Making the right contacts, or networking, is critical to…
3. 30-60-90-Day Plans for Clinical Sales Jobs Most sales reps are familiar with 30-60-90-Day Sales Plans, but…

Most revenue reps are familiar with 30-60-90-Day Sales Plans, but unbelievably, not all of them bring one to their job interviews.  As a clinical sales recruiter, I push all my candidates to create a 30-60-90-day plan for each job interview, and that’s one of the reasons my candidates are so consistently successful.  In candidate comparisons, [...] Related posts:

1. Over Two hundred,000 Views on Pharmaceutical Revenue Recruiter Video YouTube Channel! I am excited to announce that we’ve hit the 200,000-view…
2. Career opportunity Interview Questions and Answers for Medical Sales: What You’ve to Prove In the Interview If you’ve been in the position market very long, you…
3. Clinical laboratory Sales Hidden Job Market: Cold Calling Works To drum up new business, you sometimes have just got…

One of the best parts of Halloween (besides the costume!) was always the anticipation of never knowing exactly what you’d get when you shouted, “Trick or Treat!”  At the end of the night when you started your inventory, some of it you were willing to trade with your brother and some of it deserved a [...] Related posts:

1. Laboratory Sales Hidden Job Market: Cold Calling Works To drum up new business, you sometimes have just got…
2. Want a Medical laboratory Sales Job? Catch the Hiring Manager at the Right Moment You might think it’s counterproductive for me to recommend that…
3. Contact Medical Sales Managers In Person   To access the hidden job market and land the…

To drum up new business, you sometimes have just got to pound the pavement, walk right past “Don’t Solicit” signs, and ask for the business, right?  Cold calling isn’t always fun, but when you end up making the sale, it’s worth it. It’s the same with your job search–although the techniques are different.  The [...] Related posts:

1. Contact Medical Sales Managers In Person   To access the hidden career opportunity market and land the…
2. Breaking Into Pharmaceutical Revenue (with NO clinical background) Have you wanted to break into clinical laboratory revenue but you…
3. Want a Pharma Sales Position? Catch the Hiring Manager at the Right Moment You might think it’s counterproductive for me to recommend that…

You might think it’s counterproductive for me to recommend that clinical revenue job seekers go talk to hiring managers instead of coming only through me, the pathology revenue headhunter–but it isn’t.  My position is set.  Some sales managers will always prefer to go through a recruiter to find their talent, and that won’t change.  (That’s [...] Related posts:

1. Clinical Sales: Job Searching During the Holidays True or False?   Pathology sales companies stop hiring during November…
2. Steve Jobs Offers a Powerful Lesson for Your Work and Your Career opportunity Search I bet that right now you have somewhere in your…
3. Sales Managers – Candidate Safety Balanced Against Tour Costs? Job interview scheduling is usually a straight-forward process for hiring…

Are you interested in how much money you’ll make as a clinical sales rep? MedReps.com has a clinical rep salary survey I think you’ll want to see.  It says the average total compensation (base + bonus) across all specialties is $136K.  (Which helps explain why pharmaceutical sales is one of the most competitive sales arenas!) [...] Related posts:

1. Don’t Miss the Clinical Sales Summit 2011 “Early Bird Special” Acting now puts an extra $100 in your pocket! If…
2. Harvey Mackay to Speak at The Pharmaceutical Sales Summit 2011 Harvey Mackay is one of the country’s most knowledgeable and…
3. Abbott Labs (laboratory, clinical, clinical company) Exceeding $$ Expectations! Big pharma seems to be doing well, according to their…

I bet that right now you’ve somewhere in your vicinity a smartphone or an iPod filled with songs you bought from iTunes.   You’re likely using an iPad as a regular tool every single day, too.  Thank Steve Career opportunities (1955-2011), who was the driving force behind these amazingly miniature things that have had an amazingly major [...] Related posts:

1. 30/60/90-Day Plan for Pharmaceutical Revenue Career opportunity Interview Success! Recently, I had a conversation with a strong, articulate clinical…
2. Myths of Landing a Medical Sales Career opportunity Pharma sales jobs (and especially medical device sales jobs) are…
3. Career opportunity Interview Questions and Answers for Clinical Sales: What You’ve to Prove In the Interview If you’ve been in the job market very long, you…

Hey, medical sales reps/sales managers/medical sales career opportunity seekers: Now’s your chance to shape the content of this blog. My goal always is to help you be the best–get the best medical sales job, and be the best at it. So, what I can provide for you that would add the most value? More tips for [...] Related posts:

1. Don’t Miss the Medical Sales Summit 2011 “Early Bird Special” Acting now puts an extra $100 in your pocket! If…
2. Medical Revenue Recruiter Tops the List of Top 20 five Online Recruiters I am thrilled to let you know that HR Examiner…
3. Medical Sales Career opportunity Interviews: When It’s OK to Leave Your Brag Book Brag books are an important part of your job interview…