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When you send your CV to a recruiter by email, don’t send a cover letter as an attachment.  For the most part, it’s a waste of time.  A busy medical sales recruiter doesn’t have time to open extra attachments, and expects that you’ll say what you got to say in the body [...] Related posts:

1. Resume Objective Statements: Tell the Hiring Manager Why He Should Read the Rest of Your Resume Don’t be fooled by people who tell you that RESUME…
2. Send Your VP of Sales and Marketing a Thank You Note Many sales reps who spend time with upper-level people in…
3. Peggy’s episode about your Resume for Clinical Sales I actually go through my 12 inch stack of resumes…

A sales rep’s job is to make the sale.  So if you’re looking for a new position selling in clinical sales, clinical device sales, or any other health care sales arena, the best way to get a medical sales position is to make it your mission is to demonstrate that you can ring that cash [...] Related posts:

1. How to Prepare for a Behavioral Job Interview in Clinical Sales A behavioral career opportunity interview is a popular interview tactic in…
2. Interviews: How to Answer the Career opportunity References Question Your job references are important to your career opportunity search success. …
3. STAR Interview Technique for Behavioral Job Interviews Employers want to know about more than just your skills…

If you want your CV to actually be a marketing 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:

1. Keywords in your Medical Sales Resume Peggy discussions about how to get quality keywords in your…
2. RESUME Objective Statements: Tell the Hiring Manager Why He Should Read the Rest of Your Resume Don’t be fooled by people who tell you that CV…
3. Tips for Landing a Lab Sales Job The term “medical sales” covers a lot of area: clinical…

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.
I’m here to tell you that you need an objective statement on your CV.  Why? An objective statement tells me [...] Related posts:

1. Resume Objectives: What Do You Want? Resume objectives are a big topic online.  Apparently, it’s a…
2. Should you e-mail your 30/60/90-day sales plan to the hiring manager? As a Medical Revenue Recruiter, I recommend to all my…
3. How to Help the Hiring Manager Be Decisive–and Make You the Offer! Answering objections in a position interview is a skill you’ll…

Jennifer M. tells all about how a career coach (that would be me) made her dream job come true (even in this economy)!
I worked with Jennifer mid July. We fixed her resume, worked on her social media skills, helped her target hiring managers (and gave her the secret of what to ask for when she [...] Related posts:

1. Tired of interviewing and not getting that sales job you want? Career Coaching works! Position Seeker to Peggy: The phone interview was a bust….
2. Job Search Tip: Complete the Entire Job Application Latest story:  A hiring manager I am working with in…
3. How Can Career Coaching from the Clinical Sales Recruiter Help You? As a pharmaceutical sales recruiter, I spend a lot of…

Picture this:  You’ve put together a fantastic resume, you’ve lined up your references, you’ve got an attractive brag book, you’ve researched your 30/60/90-day plan, and you’ve landed an exciting interview in pharma sales, pharmaceutical sales, clinical diagnostics sales, biotechnology sales, pharma device sales, or pharma sales.  But:  What do you do if you run into [...] Related posts:

1. “Do you have any musings?” (The answer is “Yes!”) The other day, I conducted a phone interview with…
2. 10 Worst Answers to Position Interview Questions Found this at Hot Career/Interview Tips: Let me start by…
3. What questions will they ask in a pharmaceutical revenue interview? Interview preparation in any industry requires that you know what…

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Get the answers to 47 more Medical Sales questions from Peggy Article courtesy of  Peggy [...] Related posts:

1. Peggy spills the beans on the top 50 questions about pharmaceutical sales… Get the 90 minute audio conference, the resume audio…
2. Ten Funniest Interview Questions Ten.  “Who would win a battle between a ninja and…
3. Win Ipod Classic – I need Big 50 Questions You have About Medical/Healthcare/Pharma Revenue and How to break in…. I’m going to do an audio conference at…

As a pharmaceutical sales recruiter, I spend a lot of time on the phone fielding inquiries from career opportunity seekers.  Not only about specific career opportunities in medical sales, pharmaceutical sales, imaging sales, biotech revenue, medical diagnostics revenue, medical laboratory sales, medical device revenue, hospital equipment sales, medical sales, or other areas of healthcare sales, but also about career coaching:  [...]

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If you’re searching for a career opportunity in medical revenue, clinical laboratory sales, healthcare revenue, clinical diagnostics revenue, pathology sales, imaging revenue, biotech sales, clinical device revenue, hospital equipment sales, or pharma sales, you want every advantage you can get, right?  Which means, you’ve probably put a lot of effort into your resume, you’ve found the consummate [...] Related posts:

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