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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I’m starting a new 6-part series on how to stand out in your medical revenue career opportunity search. Medical sales career opportunities are very competitive, top-tier revenue jobs that require a lot from candidates–whether you’re in pharma devices, pharma sales, pathology sales, imaging sales, surgical sales, clinical sales, or any health care sales arena. The economic upheaval [...] 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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Just a quick heads-up:
When you send your resume to a headhunter by email, don’t send a cover letter as an attachment. For the most part, it’s a waste of time. A busy clinical revenue recruiter doesn’t have time to open extra attachments, and expects that you’ll say what you have to say in the body [...] Related posts:
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If you want your RESUME to actually be a product management document for you, and get a recruiter’s or a hiring manager’s attention, you must pack that RESUME with the keywords that are relevant to the career area you want. Recruiters, hiring managers, and Human Resource departments use computer searches and applicant tracking systems to flag [...] Related posts:
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Don’t be fooled by people who tell you that resume objective statements are optional, or that you shouldn’t have one at all. Their reasoning is usually that objective statements fence you in and limit your job-seeking focus.
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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.
