How do you fit into medical sales?
September 11th, 2007 by the medical sales recruiter
Penelope Trunk’s article Your Career Path Starts in College is getting a little bashed in her comment section, but she has some great advice here…my favorite is learn your strengths, and the sooner the better. It takes certain personality traits to be good at a demanding and sometimes rejection-filled job like pharma sales or laboratory diagnostics sales or medical device sales. I thought it was interesting and very accurate that she pointed out that cheerleaders make great salespeople. You don’t have to leap into doctors’ offices or research labs with pom-poms flying (hmmm…) but an extroverted personality is almost a requirement. She also recommended reading Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen. I have heard good things about the book and I will be reading it soon.
