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Medical sales resumes have certain requirements that other resumes don’t. In the video below, I’ll tell you more about how you can learn to write a CV that will give you a major advantage in trying to break into pharma sales. Article courtesy of  Peggy McKee - Owner / Senior Recruiter at the nationally recognized pharma [...] Related posts:

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If you’re a Mac computer user and you’ve sent your CV as a Microsoft Word document, there’s a decent chance that the recruiter or HR department you sent it to can’t read it.  It can also be a problem if you’ve sent your RESUME in any other program besides Word.
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What’s your role as a clinical revenue rep–whether you’re in clinical, pharma, diagnostics, devices, software, or pharma?
Do you know the best way to show me, the medical sales recruiter and reader of your resume, why I need to submit you for a career opportunity?
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It doesn’t matter if your job has nothing to do with sales.  There are many support roles in the pharmaceutical and health care arena that aren’t revenue related:  technical support, IT, field service engineers, and the like.  But if you’re going after a career opportunity in medical device revenue, pathology revenue, medical diagnostics, imaging, medical laboratory, or [...] Related posts:

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As a clinical sales recruiter, I specialize in placing sales and sales management professionals, and I’ve seen tens of thousands of resumes throughout my career.  Since I often sift through ‘em quickly, it takes a great resume to stand out from the crowd and get my attention.  And job seekers in health care sales, medical [...] Related posts:

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Job seekers can mistakenly think that the top job title they’ve had is always gracious on a RESUME.  Some sales reps have the title of VP, or Sales Director, even though they were actually in a one-to-one sales role.  This can cause a problem for you in your job search if you’re looking for another [...] Related posts:

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There is one thing that hiring managers are really looking for when scanning resumes of sales reps for pharma device, medical sales, biotech sales, imaging revenue, or any other health care sales position:  sales.  That means they want to see the numbers (or percentages) of sales generated, sales saved, or labor saved.
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