Medical Sales Recruiter - Tips & Quips

If you’re applying for a position in clinical diagnostics sales, pathology sales, pharmaceutical sales, medical device sales, or medical research products sales, here’s some advice for you:  don’t quit your old job before you complete the application process. 

I had a candidate who had gotten all the way through the hiring process except for the drug screen.  Not a problem for someone who doesn’t abuse drugs, so he went ahead and quit his current job.  However, he forgot (and therefore didn’t write down) the prescription pain reliever he’d taken 30 days before.  He failed the drug screen and didn’t get the job.  There’s a happy ending to this story, though:  his old company took him back, “drug habit and all.”  It’s good to work for a company with a sense of humor.