Posts from ‘July, 2009’

As a clinical sales recruiter, I spend a lot of time on the phone fielding inquiries from job seekers.  Not only about specific career opportunities in medical sales, medical sales, imaging sales, biotech sales, medical diagnostics sales, laboratory sales, medical device sales, hospital equipment sales, pharma sales, or other areas of healthcare sales, but also about career coaching:  [...]

I discovered a terrific post for you:  Fifty Things Successful People Have in Common, from Craig Harper on The DEW View.  Craig says that 90% of any  self-help book is redundant worthlessness.  (Interesting.)  The concepts of great self-help books can be presented in about 10% of the typical space it takes to fill a book.  So…the list [...]

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OMG, They Asked for References What do you do when they ask for references during your job interview?  First of all, do a little happy dance (in your head, of course) because you’ve just gotten a buying signal from your interviewer.  Asking for your references indicates definite interest.  However, you’re not home no cost yet.  Always assume your references will be [...]

Career Sabotage: The Influence of a Past Employer  
The word was out on Jim Walters. Someone was telling prospective employers that they shouldn’t hire him. It cost him at least twelve leading career opportunity offers, kept him unemployed for over a year, and more than $100,000 of his retirement fund.  
Walters, not his real name, has [...] Related posts:

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