Medical Sales Recruiter - Tips & Quips

Would you hire someone who’s been their own boss?  In my experience as a medical sales recruiter, I sometimes come up against resistance to the prospect of hiring someone who has been an entrepreneur.  Entrepreneurs often “scare” potential employers.  Because of the background that goes with it (they made their own hours, answered only to […]

Welcome to my 4-part “Pimp Your Career” series.
In part I, I showed you the way to pimp your brand.  In part II, I showed you how to pimp your resume.  The third part of your job-search strategy in healthcare sales, pharmaceutical sales, medical research sales, imaging sales, pathology sales, laboratory sales, clinical diagnostics sales, or sales […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

Many thanks to Eliot Burdett over at Peak Sales Recruiting, Inc. Below is a great article that Eliot posted to his blog last month. Good lessons in here for every sales person.
We believe persistence is a critical contributor to success. In fact, Calvin Coolidge once said:
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. […]

I just found this site - http://www.medgadget.com/ and think it might be a sight that you would want to bookmark! Lots of articles about emerging medical technology!

Today’s podcast will teach you how to network.  Networking is critically important in the business world–and in the rest of the world, too, if you think about it.  I have discussed networking ideas in past posts, but today is a real nuts-and-bolts tutorial of what, exactly, to do:
*How to make yourself available to people and provide […]

Here is some news that everyone in healthcare sales should be very interested in, from my post at Interview On Demand:
Today, jobseekers have a new tool to differentiate themselves from the masses. Interview on Demand, LLC. introduces the Video Career Profile! This is a web page that showcases the jobseeker in a way that will […]