Posts from ‘December, 2008’

I get many hundreds of visitors every day to my blog (thank you very much!), and I’m always interested in discovering what my readers really wanna read, and providing something helpful to you.  I checked the traffic recently and found that these are the 5 most-visited posts, so I rounded ‘em up to share with [...]

I hope that you enjoy this. Merry Christmas. addthis_url =’http%3A%2F%2Fwww.phcconsulting.com%2FWordPress%2F2008%2F12%2F22%2Fmerry-christmas-to-you-from-the-medical-sales-recruiter%2F’; addthis_title =’Merry+Christmas+to+You%21+From+the+Medical+Sales+Recruiter’; addthis_pub =”; Article courtesy of  Peggy McKee - Owner / Senior Headhunter at the nationally recognized clinical and medical sales recruiting team of PHC [...]

Cheezhead ran an article recently by bestselling author and speaker Lindsey Pollak on What Millennials Really Wanna Know, where she lists the 3 most common queries asked by entry-level position seekers, AKA:  Generation Y.  It’s a great article, and I’d like to add my two cents in support, from a medical sales perspective:
1.  Will [...]

Christmas is coming!  Do you need ideas for the flawless gift for that hardworking salesperson in your life?  Anyone in medical revenue, medical sales, clinical diagnostics revenue, imaging revenue, hospital equipment revenue, pharmaceutical supply sales, surgical supply sales, laboratory revenue, cellular products sales, molecular products sales, biotechnology sales, or pharma revenue will enjoy these:
Starbucks:  Gift cards are [...]

In better times, a standard relocation package included a house-hunting travel, moving expenses, and maybe closing costs and realtor fees.  These days of falling housing prices are inspiring more companies to offer home-buying perks to the packages of even lower-level candidates if the candidate’s house doesn’t sell, according to the Wall Street Journal. 
Relocation has always been a [...]

I did my first blog/radio show yesterday. The recruiting animal invited me to come chat about my blog, my thoughts on women in management, assessment testing and fraternizing with powerful people……that’s putting it very simply. You can listen to it here: Peggy McKee chats with the Recruiting Animal. It was a very fast hour. [...]

December 10th, 3:35 pm (early and convenient timing - I’d point out)
As you know, if you’ve read or listened to me much, I am a strong advocate of telling people what you need or how they can help. I know that if I understand what I can do for you (and it is [...]

This question was posted on my LinkedIn page, along with those comments:
Person with question says:
My company is a consummate example of a large scale device organization with few women. Only 1 woman in an executive job and none in upper management. I have spoken with some women who say they were discouraged from pursuing management [...]

Here’s a great article for you to see:  Military Are Getting Short-Changed On the Position Front, Too, by Teena Rose.  I met Teena on Twitter.  She is the head of RESUME to Referral, which provides resume-writing and career services for mid-level career to executive professionals.  In her article, she talks about her husband’s career transition [...]

The Dark Daily (Clinical Lab and Pathology News/Trends), which I read frequently, recently reported a study of the 10 Germiest Jobs In America, by “Dr. Germ,” AKA Charles P. Gerba, Ph.D., a microbiologist at the University of Arizona in Tuscon.   Here’s the list:
1) Teacher, day care workers
2) Cashier, bank employee
3) Tech support, computer repair.
4) Doctor or nurse
5) Laboratory [...]