Medical Sales Recruiter - Tips & Quips

Welcome to my 4-part “Pimp Your Career” series.
This post will be about your personal brand.  When people think of you, what do they think?  Sales guru, marketing manager, computer geek, public-relations person, etc…  This is your personal brand.  If the answer you get is different from the one you want, you have some work to […]

I’m going to spend the next few posts showing you how to jazz up your job search and career…step it up, trick it out, be outstanding (like “Pimp My Ride”).  As a medical sales recruiter, I am aware that competition is fierce in healthcare sales, pathology sales, imaging sales, pharmaceutical sales, laboratory sales, and all sales involving […]

You should always put your best foot forward in a job interview, but some things should still be kept to yourself.  I had a candidate who was supremely qualified not get the job because too many of her “assets” were showing.  Cleavage in a job interview is only a good idea in a very limited selection […]

I have warned healthcare sales candidates about being too free with their Facebook or MySpace pages, because of the very real possiblity that potential medical sales employers will go looking for all the information they can find on candidates they’re thinking about hiring.  The other day, I found an article about employees turning the tables […]

We keep hearing bad news everywhere:  recession, job cuts, recession, outsourcing, recesssion.  One of the great things about working in healthcare sales is that it tends to be recession-proof, some fields more than others…clinical diagnostics, research lab, medical device, pathology, and imaging sales are always going to be more stable and less dependent on the economy […]

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

I can’t read or watch Stephen King because my imagination is too vivid and I can’t get it out of my mind…but I know success when I see it, and this quote is […]

I get asked sometimes by healthcare sales, clinical laboratory sales, pathology sales, and imaging sales job seekers whether or not it would help their chances of getting a job or advancing in their field if they got a graduate degree.  (The MBA seems to be the most popular possibility.)  The Little Red Suit has some interesting […]

I found some blogs that are very specific to our industry and wanted to share them with you:
http://labsoftnews.typepad.com/lab_soft_news/ - this one is sponsored by Siemens, McKesson, SunQuest, SCC, Beckman Coulter and TechniData Software.  It’s an “An Idea Factory for Pathology Informatics and the Clinical Laboratory.”  LOADS of information here.  There are recent posts on everything from Micro-blogging […]

I had the opportunity to speak with Cliff Mintz who authors the BioJobBlog. Cliff has an extensive background as a BioCareer professional. He has been a management consultant to a number of emerging and publicly-traded biopharmaceutical companies and has held a variety of positions (medical school professor, professional recruiter, and medical/science writer). He and I have agreed to […]

And send it to the other recruiters, hiring managers and networking partners you are working with…..I had a product management job (marketing position responsible for determining what next products within the research laboratory arena the client company should pursue) and had a candidate that was not a great fit approach me about the job. She was […]