Posts under ‘Career Coach’

Today’s career opportunity search is unlike any we’ve seen before.  Competition is especially fierce for pathology revenue career opportunities in this economy, and candidates get weeded out quickly.  If you’ve landed the interview, you got 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 Career opportunity Interview and Preparation Coaching Did you ever wish you had the “inside track” at…
2. How Interview Coaching Can Help You Get a Medical 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 clinical sales career opportunity interviews:  research,…

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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 Career opportunity 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 job, why you’ve been out of [...] Related posts:

1. What You MUST Ask Before You Leave The Interview To prepare for a job interview in clinical or health…
2. Typical Phone Interview Questions for Medical laboratory Revenue Jobs Phone interviews can be deceptively casual to some laboratory sales…
3. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Medical Sales Job Search – Part I I’m starting a new 6-part series on how to stand…

You know the drill for pharmaceutical sales career opportunity interviews:  research, prepare, and be willing for the toughest interview queries.
There are some job interview questions for health care sales jobs that inevitably tour 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 Job Interview Video: The Origin of Job Interviews I found this on YouTube–The Origin of Job Interviews from…
3. 10 Popular Behavioral Interview Musings for Clinical Sales Behavioral interview queries are the norm for job interviews in…

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

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

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

1. Discover a Mentor for Your Clinical 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 Pharmaceutical Sales Career If you’re a nurse who is thinking about a…
3. Clinical Device Revenue 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 queries, and some of it says to practice your interview answers with a friend, or movie yourself so that you can play it back to see your weak spots.  It’s fine 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 Sales Interview Question Tip: “You Don’t Have Experience…Why Should We Hire You?” Would you like to transition into clinical 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 nice-looking consistently, about 20 minutes a day–and he’s not bad.  But, as he said 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 Clinical Revenue Recruiter Help You? As a medical revenue recruiter, I spend a lot of…
2. Pharmaceutical Device Revenue 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 revenue job you want? Career Coaching works! Position 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 Laboratory Sales Career I discovered a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out…
2. How Can Career Coaching from the Pharma Sales Recruiter Help You? As a medical sales recruiter, I spend a lot of…
3. Careers for pathology professionals who want to get off the bench: molecular, cyto, histo, med tech, etc. When we go off to college, sometimes we choose a…

I found a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out how helpful a mentor can be to your career, and gives you some ideas about what to look for in a mentor as well as how to discover one–like at your company, in a professional organization, or a friend who’s farther along in their career [...] Related posts:

1. How Can Career Coaching from the Pharma Sales Headhunter Help You? As a clinical sales recruiter, I spend a lot of…
2. Improved Revenue Performance for Pharmaceutical Sales I met Lance Cooper on Twitter.  He’s the President of…
3. How a Career Coach Helped Jennifer Get a Great Sales position! Jennifer had little experience in sales and was having trouble…