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.
Here’s a great article for you to see: Military Are Getting Short-Changed On the Career opportunity Front, Too, by Teena Rose. I met Teena on Twitter. She’s the head of RESUME to Referral, which provides resume-writing and career services for mid-level career to executive professionals. In her article, she discussions about her husband’s career transition from the military to the private sector and the lessons he learned, which can be helpful for all of us–the main one being: don’t count on the military (read: one source only) to help you get another career opportunity.
For instance, we had a candidate transitioning out of the military who sent us a episode scene interview from where he was stationed in Germany….BEFORE he was out, please keep in mind. We had interviews set up for him the first week he was back, and he had a great career opportunity within 4 weeks of his return. (People with military backgrounds often make great candidates for medical sales, medical diagnostics revenue, laboratory sales, imaging revenue, pathology sales, DNA products revenue, cellular/molecular products sales, biotechnology sales, pharmaceutical sales, laboratory device sales, hospital equipment sales, surgical supply sales, or other health care sales.)
The thing for you to get out of this is: NETWORK. Use as many sources as you can in your career opportunity search. Call people you know. Ask around. Get on LinkedIn and Twitter. Contact a recruiter. It’s never a bad thing to have options.
Article courtesy of Peggy McKee - Owner / Senior Recruiter at the nationally
recognized medical and pharmaceutical sales recruiting team of PHC Consulting.
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