Pharmaceutical Sales: Pharmaceutical Sales Reps Are Losing Jobs

Here’s a very informative article from http://www.amednews.com/ that reports what’s going on with pharmaceutical sales reps positions, and what the future looks like: 

Doctors increasingly close doors to drug reps, while pharma cuts ranks

It’s a great article to go to for more detailed information, but the upshot is that doctors are increasingly averse to allowing sales calls from pharmaceutical reps, and the industry has slashed sales rep numbers from 102,000 in 2007 to 92,000…and projections are that it will be 75,000 by 2012.  (GlaxoSmithKline alone decrease 1800 career opportunities in the last year.)  Not a worthy job outlook.

My take on it’s that if you’ve a science degree and revenue experience, you should definitely look into another area of pharmaceutical sales…like pharma sales, clinical diagnostics revenue, laboratory device sales, hospital equipment revenue, imaging sales, clinical laboratory sales, or biotechnology sales.  They’re much less tied to the economy, and consistently earn more respect from physicians–who tend to view those kinds of pharma sales reps as experts and consultants, rather than a nuisance.  For more information, please see my corporate website, www.phcconsulting.com.

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