Posts under ‘Interviewing Skills and Tips’

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…

Because brag books (or 30/60/90-day plans, for that matter) are a relatively uncommon item to bring to interviews, some hiring managers aren’t prepared to work ‘em in to the process.  And because you might not be totally comfortable with using Them (combined with the fact that job interviews rattle your nerves), you might not be [...] Related posts:

1. How Interview Coaching Can Help You Get a Clinical Sales Job Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer?…
2. How Does a Nurse Transition into Pharmaceutical Sales? Clinical Device Sales? Clinical laboratory Revenue? Here’s a Job Search Strategy for You Nurses have a few natural advantages when it comes to…
3. Help! They Have a 3rd Party Consultant Interviewing Me! Sometimes companies hire outside recruiters as consultants assigned to conduct…

It might surprise you to know that asking musings of your own during your health care sales  job interview is just as important as answering them.  Candidates spend a lot of time on interview preparation, and they should.  Doing your research on the company, bringing your 30/60/90-day plan, and preparing compelling answers to interview questions [...] Related posts:

1. Typical Phone Interview Questions for Medical Sales Career opportunities Phone interviews can be deceptively casual to some pharmaceutical sales…
2. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Pharmaceutical Sales Career opportunity Interview – Part V If you’ve been in the job search very long for…
3. 5 Killer Queries to Ask In Your Medical Sales Job Interview Usually, the emphasis in position interview prep involves getting your…

If you’re asked about your references in the career opportunity interview, do you have a few names willing?
Do you know what these people would say about you when they’re called?
In today’s video, I’ll tell you how to choose the best references, how to make sure they say fantastic, glowing things about you, and why it’s [...] Related posts:

1. How Interview Coaching Can Help You Get a Pharmaceutical Sales Career opportunity Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer?…
2. Don’t Sabatoge Your Job Search By Making This Critical Interview Mistake Just got off a coaching call with a candidate who…
3. Typical Phone Interview Musings for Pharmaceutical Sales Jobs Phone interviews can be deceptively casual to some clinical laboratory sales…

Dear Medical Sales Hiring Manager:
At PHC Consulting, we wanna help our candidates be as successful and confident as they can be when interviewing for a clinical revenue job.  Part of that is excellent interview prep, but part of it is how they costume for the interview.  We have put together a survey so that [...] Related posts:

1. Typical Phone Interview Questions for Medical Sales Career opportunities Phone interviews can be deceptively casual to some clinical sales…
2. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Medical Sales Job Interview – Part V If you’ve been in the job search very long for…
3. 5 Killer Questions to Ask In Your Clinical Sales Career opportunity Interview Usually, the emphasis in job interview prep involves getting your…

Today is the last piece of a 6-part series on how to stand out in your clinical sales job search.  Here’s what we’ve covered so far:
Part 1 – Rethinking your position search (and where you stand in it)
Part 2 – Using social media to help you land the job Part THREE – Using the right [...] Related posts:

1. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Medical Revenue Job Search – Part IV Today is Part 4 of our series, The Secret to…
2. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Medical Sales Career opportunity Interview – Part V If you’ve been in the job search very long for…
3. The Secret to Standing Out In Your Pharmaceutical Revenue Job Search – Part III Welcome to part THREE of my 6-part series on how…

If you’ve been in the job search very long for a position in medical laboratory sales, laboratory revenue, clinical device sales, surgical sales, pharma sales, or any other health care sales field, you know how competitive it is.  But there are things you can do to make yourself stand out as a candidate…and that’s where this [...] Related posts:

1. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Medical Revenue Job Search – Part IV Today is Part 4 of our series, The Secret to…
2. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Clinical Sales Job Search – Part I I’m starting a new 6-part series on how to stand…
3. The Secret to Standing Out In Your Clinical Revenue Job Search – Part III Welcome to part THREE of my 6-part series on how…

Today is Part 4 of our series, The Secret to Standing Out in Your Medical Sales Job Search.  To recap,
Part 1 was Rethink Your Job Search
Part TWO was Use Social Media
Part 3 was Use the Right Tools to Impress Your Interviewer
Tip #4 is:
Try Job Shadowing
Job shadowing is not just a “try out” for your new [...] Related posts:

1. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Pharma Sales Job Search – Part I I’m starting a new 6-part series on how to stand…
2. The Secret to Standing Out In Your Clinical Sales Career opportunity Search – Part III Welcome to part 3 of my 6-part series on how…
3. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Pharma Sales Job Search – Part II Although times are tough for position seekers all over, it’s…

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…

Welcome to part THREE of my 6-part series on how to stand out in your medical sales job search.  Clinical revenue has always been a competitive sales arena, but it’s even more so these days with an influx of candidates from harder-hit areas of sales.  So, you really have to bring your game to stand [...] Related posts:

1. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Clinical Sales Career opportunity Search – Part IV Today is Part 4 of our series, The Secret to…
2. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Pharma Sales Career opportunity Search – Part I I’m starting a new 6-part series on how to stand…
3. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Medical Sales Position Search – Part II Although times are tough for position seekers all over, it’s…