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Just a quick heads-up:
When you send your RESUME 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 clinical 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 Product management a Thank You Note Many sales reps who spend time with upper-level people in…
3. Peggy’s video about your Resume for Clinical Sales I actually go through my 12 inch stack of resumes…

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

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

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

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 RESUME.  Why? An objective statement tells me [...] Related posts:

1. CV Objectives: What Do You Want? CV objectives are a major topic online.  Apparently, it’s a…
2. Should you e-mail your 30/60/90-day sales plan to the hiring manager? As a Clinical Sales 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 fantasy position 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! Job Seeker to Peggy: The phone interview was a bust….
2. Career opportunity 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 Revenue Headhunter Help You? As a clinical revenue recruiter, I spend a lot of…

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

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

Hey, give me 4 minutes and I’ll give you three of the major ten musings, the answers and save you at least 500 bucks!
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Get the answers to 47 more Medical Revenue questions from Peggy Article courtesy of  Peggy [...] Related posts:

1. Peggy spills the beans on the top Fifty questions about medical sales… Get the 90 minute audio conference, the RESUME audio…
2. 10 Funniest Interview Questions 10.  “Who would win a battle between a ninja and…
3. Win Ipod Classic – I need Big 50 Queries You have About Medical/Healthcare/Pharma Sales and How to break in…. I am going to do an audio conference at…

As a clinical sales recruiter, I spend a lot of time on the phone fielding inquiries from career opportunity seekers.  Not only about specific jobs in medical revenue, pharma sales, imaging sales, biotech sales, clinical diagnostics sales, pathology sales, medical device sales, 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 job in laboratory sales, pharmaceutical sales, healthcare sales, clinical diagnostics sales, clinical laboratory revenue, imaging sales, biotech sales, medical device sales, hospital equipment revenue, or pharmaceutical revenue, you want every advantage you can get, right?  Which means, you’ve probably put a lot of effort into your CV, you’ve discovered the perfect [...] Related posts:

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