Posts under ‘Career Coach’

Today’s job search is unlike any we’ve seen before.  Competition is especially fierce for medical sales jobs 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. Laboratory 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 Job 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 pharma sales job interviews:  research,…

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

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

If “no experience” is stopping you from the dream job that you desire?
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1. Don’t Sabatoge Your Career opportunity 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 position 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 position, 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 medical or health…
2. Typical Phone Interview Questions for Clinical Sales Jobs Phone interviews can be deceptively casual to some medical 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 clinical sales career opportunity interviews:  research, prepare, and be willing for the toughest interview questions.
There are some job interview queries for health care revenue jobs that inevitably tour candidates up.  “What’s your greatest weakness?“  is a famous one.   The typical advice you’ll usually discover 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. Ten Popular Behavioral Interview Queries for Pharma Sales Behavioral interview questions are the norm for position interviews in…

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

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

If it’s true that 55% of medical device revenue 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, medical device is a great place to be.  There are amazing career opportunities available for the right [...] Related posts:

1. Find 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 Clinical Sales Career If you are a nurse who is thinking about a…
3. Medical 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 find 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 wonderful advice.  It’s always harder to critique [...] Related posts:

1. “Umm, Uh… Could you, like, NOT hire me?”: How to Underwhelm Your Job Interviewer Job interviews generally make people nervous, and understandably so:  you’re…
2. Clinical Sales Interview Question Tip: “You Don’t Have Experience…Why Should We Hire You?” Would you like to transition into medical revenue? What if…
3. “Do you have 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 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 Medical Revenue Recruiter Help You? As a pharmaceutical revenue recruiter, I spend a lot of…
2. Clinical 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! 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. Discover a Mentor for Your Pharmaceutical Revenue Career I discovered a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out…
2. How Can Career Coaching from the Laboratory Sales Recruiter Help You? As a medical sales headhunter, I spend a lot of…
3. Careers for lab professionals who want to get off the bench: molecular, cyto, histo, med tech, etc. When we go off to college, sometimes we choose a…