The Secret to Standing Out in Your Pharmaceutical Sales Job Search – Part I

I’m starting a new 6-part series on how to stand out in your medical sales job search.  Pharmaceutical sales career opportunities are very competitive, top-tier sales career opportunities that require a lot from candidates–whether you’re in laboratory devices, clinical sales, lab sales, imaging revenue, surgical sales, clinical sales, or any health care sales arena.  The economic upheaval in general and the shakeups in the pharmaceutical industry in particular haven’t helped matters at all.  You’ve really got to bring your game in order to be successful and land the job.

So what’s your first step?

Tip #1:  Rethink Your Job Search

Most job seekers don’t understand that the position search is a revenue process, even if your job has nothing to do with sales:  you want an employer to hire you, which essentially means to buy your product (that would be you).  So here are the questions you must ask yourself:

• Why should he buy your skills and talents over someone else’s?
• What benefits can you offer?
• What makes you different from other products?
• Where do you “fit” in the marketplace?
• With this in mind, is your resume acting as the marketing brochure that it should be?

Strategically analyzing these issues and constructing compelling answers to those queries is the first major step toward your goal.

Watch this short video for more insight:

See what I mean?

Here’s another couple of links you should find helpful:

• A no cost, one-hour webinar on How to Land a Pharmaceutical Revenue Career opportunity.

• An exclusive kit packed with over 15 years of experience in clinical sales designed to give you the edge in every aspect of your clinical sales job search:  How to Get Into Medical laboratory Sales.

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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The Secret to Standing Out in Your Medical Sales Job Search – Part I