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 […]

I was reading the Asia Pacific Headhunter blog and found this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJB0CzlzSwY I really enjoyed this and thought you might as well. Please do not see this as an endorsement of Monster. I just thought the video was funny.
One last thing, if you were in medical or laboratory sales, you would be less likely to be […]

Welcome to my 4-part “Pimp Your Career” series.
In Part I, we worked with pimping your personal brand.
In Part II - Pimp Your Resume, I showed you how to put together a resume a recruiter or hiring manager will want to read. 
In Part III - Pimp Your Network, I told you how important it is to spend […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]