I just finished a coaching session with a candidate who is making a critical mistake in his health care sales job search.
His mistake? He doesn’t have a LinkedIn profile representing him as an outstanding pathology revenue candidate.
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Every jobseeker in medical sales, health care sales, pharmaceutical device sales, pharma sales, or pharmaceutical revenue should be on LinkedIn. It’s an essential element of your networking and job searching strategy.
Why?
LinkedIn provides several advantages for you: LinkedIn is a way to get your name out there. (Personal branding, anyone?) Your LinkedIn profile is an online RESUME [...] Related posts:
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Are you on LinkedIn? If not, you should be. Not only is LinkedIn an invaluable component of your professional network, it’s an amazing resource for information about pharma and health care sales.
For example, in the Sales Café group, this is a discussion:
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What LinkedIn Sales Group should you join?
Ours!!!
Sales Café: Revenue Rep Careers
This group is all about the sales representative. We will provide cutting edge tips, tools and information about the sales rep and how they can take their career to the next level. Our topics will include training, tools, career opportunities, interviews, career management, and more.
Here’s [...] Related posts:
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If you are a sales professional or want to become one, or if you are looking for a new sales job, you will face one of the toughest interview processes of any job seeker.
