Posts under ‘Interview Questions and Answers’

Here’s a quick guide to answering 5 common (but tricky) job interview questions within pharmaceutical and health care sales.  Click the link for the answer. 1.  “Tell me about yourself.” 2.  “What’s your greatest weakness?” 3.  “Are you a team player?” 4. “What’s your sales style?” 5.  “Can you sell me this pen?” Perfecting your [...] Related posts:

1. Job Interview Questions and Answers for Clinical Sales: What You got to Prove In the Interview If you’ve been in the career opportunity market very long, you…
2. Pharma Revenue Interview Question – “What’s Your Sales Style?” “What is your sales style?” If you’re trying to land…
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Just for fun… I hope you enjoyed that.  Now click this link for real help with your medical sales interview queries and answers. Article courtesy of  Peggy McKee - Owner / Senior Recruiter at the nationally recognized pharma and laboratory sales recruiting team of PHC Consulting.© Copyright 2008 PHC Consulting | All rights reserved Related posts:Over 200,000 [...] Related posts:

1. Over 200,000 Views on Pharmaceutical Sales Headhunter Clip YouTube Channel! I’m excited to announce that we’ve hit the 200,000-view…
2. Medical Sales Hidden Job Market: Cold Calling Works To drum up new business, you sometimes have just got…
3. Job Shadowing for Medical laboratory Sales: What Questions to Ask I am a major proponent of career opportunity shadowing (aka ride-alongs,…

“What is your revenue style?” If you’re trying to land a position in clinical revenue, you will definitely be asked this question at some point in your interview. (Probably right before “Can you sell me this pen?“) It’s one of many common sales interview questions. As a pharmaceutical sales recruiter, I expect a certain kind [...] Related posts:

1. Medical Sales Job Interview Advice: Talking About Salary (aka The Money Question) Of all job interview questions or issues, possibly the most…
2. The Importance of Questioning Skills in Your Clinical Sales Position Interview It might surprise you to know that asking musings of…
3. Clinical Sales Position Interview Question: “Can You Sell Me This Pen?” Pharmaceutical revenue job interviews commonly have a version of role-play…

Medical revenue job interviews commonly have a version of role-play that they use for interview queries. In the most general sense, it’s a “What would you do in this situation?” kind of question. It’s strongly related to the whole behavioral interview process. Hiring managers want to get a better picture of what life will look [...] Related posts:

1. Medical Revenue Career opportunity Interview Advice: Talking About Salary (aka The Money Question) Of all career opportunity interview queries or issues, possibly the most…
2. The Importance of Questioning Skills in Your Medical Sales Position Interview It might surprise you to know that asking queries of…
3. Clinical Sales Job Interview and Preparation Coaching Did you ever wish you had the “inside track” at…

If you’ve been in the position market very long, you know how competitive it’s out there–especially if you’re trying to land a career opportunity in pharma devices, pharmaceutical sales, or health care sales in general.  But all that means is that since employers probably aren’t chasing you, you’ve got to bring your “A [...] Related posts:

1. Can You Over-Prepare for Your Clinical laboratory Sales Position Interview? I don’t think it’s even possible to be “over-prepared” for…
2. The Importance of Questioning Skills in Your Pharmaceutical Sales Job Interview It might surprise you to know that asking musings of…
3. 5 Mind boggling Queries to Ask In Your Medical Sales Job Interview Usually, the emphasis in position interview prep involves getting your…

I am excited to announce that we’ve hit the 2 hundred,000-view mark on the Medical Sales Recruiter YouTube Channel!
Thank you for watching and for referring my episodes to others.  They are all designed to give you a strong competitive edge in the clinical sales job market, and I would love to hear from you about which [...] Related posts:

1. MedSalesRecruiter’s YouTube Channel Gets 100,000 Views! About two years ago, I started publishing movies on YouTube…
2. Medical Sales Career opportunity Interview Advice: Talking About Salary (aka The Money Question) Of all job interview questions or issues, possibly the most…
3. Typical Phone Interview Questions for Laboratory Sales Positions Phone interviews can be deceptively casual to some medical sales…

Of all position interview queries or issues, possibly the most anxiety-inducing one is the one about money. What’s your salary going to be? How much are you worth?
As in all things, there is a time to talk, and a time to shut up.
And if you haven’t already guessed, the time to talk about [...] Related posts:

1. Position Search Advice: How to Explain Your Unemployment (and Get Your Confidence Back!) It seems that there’s always been a stigma attached to…
2. Job Search Advice: How to Navigate Networking When You’re Unemployed What do you do if you’re currently unemployed (like so…
3. The Importance of Questioning Skills in Your Medical Sales Career opportunity Interview It might surprise you to know that asking questions of…

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1. Don’t Sabatoge Your Job Search By Making This Critical Interview Mistake Just got off a coaching call with a candidate who…
2. Career Coach does CPR on Position Seeker’s Search! Listen to the career opportunity 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…

It might surprise you to know that asking questions of your own during your health care sales  position 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 musings [...] Related posts:

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

If you’ve been in the job search very long for a job in medical revenue, pharmaceutical sales, laboratory device sales, surgical sales, medical 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 Pharmaceutical Sales Job Search – Part IV Today is Part 4 of our series, The Secret to…
2. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Clinical laboratory 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 Medical Sales Job Search – Part III Welcome to part 3 of my 6-part series on how…