Posts under ‘Career Coach’

Today’s job search is unlike any we’ve seen before.  Competition is especially fierce for pathology sales positions in this economy, and candidates get weeded out quickly.  If you’ve landed the interview, you have to bring your best game right off the bat and knock the socks off the hiring manager.  One of the most effective [...] Related posts:

1. Clinical Sales Job Interview and Preparation Coaching Did you ever wish you had the “inside track” at…
2. How Interview Coaching Can Help You Get a Pharma Sales Position Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer?…
3. Should you hire a career coach to role play some job interview questions? You know the drill for pharmaceutical sales career opportunity interviews:  research,…

Did you ever wish you had the “inside track” at your clinical sales job interview?  Or that you knew exactly how to explain that slightly difficult/embarrassing/sensitive situation in your job history?  Or even the very best way to explain who you are and what you do in a compelling, “hire me” kind of way?  Maybe [...] Related posts:

1. How Interview Coaching Can Help You Get a Medical Sales Career opportunity Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer?…
2. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Clinical Sales Position Interview – Part V If you’ve been in the job search very long for…
3. The Importance of Questioning Skills in Your Pharma Sales Job Interview It might surprise you to know that asking questions of…

If “no experience” is stopping you from the fantasy job that you desire?
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1. Don’t Sabatoge Your Position Search By Making This Critical Interview Mistake Just got off a coaching call with a candidate who…
2. Career Coach does CPR on Job Seeker’s Search! Listen to the job seeker here: Jennifer M. tells all about how a career coach (that…
3. Asking (closing) for the next step in the interview… I was prepping one of my candidates for an interview…

Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer? Or not even getting called back for a second interview?
Maybe there’s some issue you don’t have a great explanation for: a gap in your employment history, why you’re willing to take a pay cut in a new career opportunity, why you’ve been out of [...] Related posts:

1. What You MUST Ask Before You Leave The Interview To prepare for a career opportunity interview in medical or health…
2. Typical Phone Interview Questions for Clinical Sales Jobs Phone interviews can be deceptively casual to some pharma revenue…
3. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Laboratory Sales Position Search – Part I I’m starting a new 6-part series on how to stand…

You know the drill for medical sales job interviews:  research, prepare, and be ready for the toughest interview questions.
There are some job interview questions for health care revenue positions that inevitably journey candidates up.  “What’s your greatest weakness?“  is a famous one.   The typical advice you’ll usually find is to prepare for the interview by [...] Related posts:

1. Should you hire an interview coach? There’s tremendous amounts of advice you can discover in books…
2. Funny Position Interview Video: The Origin of Job Interviews I found this on YouTube–The Origin of Job Interviews from…
3. 10 Popular Behavioral Interview Queries for Pharmaceutical Sales Behavioral interview questions are the norm for job interviews in…

As a pharmaceutical revenue recruiter, I get almost every day inquiries from people who would like to be in clinical sales even though they have no sales background and want to know what they should do.  I’m never surprised to get these calls.  Pharmaceutical sales is (I think) the major tier of sales categories, and there [...] Related posts:

1. How Does a Nurse Transition into Pharma Revenue? Clinical Device Revenue? Pathology Revenue? Here’s a Job Search Strategy for You Nurses have a few natural advantages when it comes to…
2. Tips for Landing a Clinical Sales Position The term “clinical laboratory sales” covers a lot of area: pathology…
3. Nurses: Looking for a Career Change? Think About A Transition Into a Pharma Revenue Career If you are a nurse who is thinking about a…

If it’s true that 55% of pharmaceutical device sales professionals will be looking for a new job this year, then odds are wonderful that you might be one of them.   Even with the ‘churn’ in the market this year, pharma device is a great place to be.  There are awesome jobs available for the right [...] Related posts:

1. Find a Mentor for Your Pharma Sales Career I found a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out…
2. Nurses: Looking for a Career Change? Think About A Transition Into a Clinical Sales Career If you’re a nurse who is thinking about a…
3. Clinical Device Sales Rep Uses Career Coaching to Wordsmith… Here’s Melissa’s story:  I went through a very difficult career…

There’s tremendous amounts of advice you can discover in books and online for how to answer job interview questions, and some of it says to practice your interview answers with a friend, or video yourself so that you can play it back to see your weak spots.  It’s valuable advice.  It’s always harder to critique [...] Related posts:

1. “Umm, Uh… Could you, like, NOT hire me?”: How to Underwhelm Your Career opportunity Interviewer Job interviews generally make people nervous, and understandably so:  you’re…
2. Medical Revenue Interview Question Tip: “You Don’t Have Experience…Why Should We Hire You?” Would you like to transition into medical sales? What if…
3. “Do you’ve any questions?” (The answer is “Yes!”) The other day, I conducted a phone interview with…

I bought my husband Kraig a new electric guitar for his birthday in July.  He’d wanted one for a while, and has tooled around with it gorgeous consistently, about 20 minutes a day–and he’s not bad.  But, as he told me, he’s “plateaued”.  He’s gone as far as his skills will take him, and [...] Related posts:

1. How Can Career Coaching from the Pathology Sales Recruiter Help You? As a medical sales recruiter, I spend a lot of…
2. Clinical Device Sales Rep Uses Career Coaching to Wordsmith… Here’s Melissa’s story:  I went through a very difficult career…
3. Tired of interviewing and not getting that sales job you want? Career Coaching works! Job Seeker to Peggy: The phone interview was a bust….

There’s an article on EmploymentDigest.net that you should see.  It’s about how finding a mentor can help you advance your career, but it also has several important points about how to choose a career mentor, keeping in mind that your manager, recruiter, or your friend might not be the best choices for you.  A manager, [...] Related posts:

1. Find a Mentor for Your Pharmaceutical Sales Career I discovered a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out…
2. How Can Career Coaching from the Medical Sales Recruiter Help You? As a laboratory revenue recruiter, I spend a lot of…
3. Careers for pathology professionals who wanna get off the bench: molecular, cyto, histo, med tech, etc. When we go off to college, sometimes we choose a…