Posts under ‘Career Coach’

Today’s career opportunity search is unlike any we’ve seen before.  Competition is especially fierce for medical sales career opportunities in this economy, and candidates get weeded out quickly.  If you’ve landed the interview, you have to bring your best game right off the bat and knock the socks off the hiring manager.  One of the most effective [...] Related posts:

1. Clinical Sales Job Interview and Preparation Coaching Did you ever wish you had the “inside track” at…
2. How Interview Coaching Can Help You Get a Pharmaceutical Sales Position Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer?…
3. Should you hire a career coach to role play some position interview questions? You know the drill for medical sales job interviews:  research,…

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1. Don’t Sabatoge Your Job Search By Making This Critical Interview Mistake Just got off a coaching call with a candidate who…
2. Career Coach does CPR on Job Seeker’s Search! Listen to the career opportunity seeker here: Jennifer M. tells all about how a career coach (that…
3. Asking (closing) for the next step in the interview… I was prepping one of my candidates for an interview…

Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer? Or not even getting called back for a second interview?
Maybe there’s some issue you don’t have a great explanation for: a gap in your employment history, why you’re willing to take a pay decrease in a new job, why you’ve been out of [...] Related posts:

1. What You MUST Ask Before You Leave The Interview To prepare for a career opportunity interview in medical or health…
2. Typical Phone Interview Questions for Pharma Sales Jobs Phone interviews can be deceptively casual to some medical revenue…
3. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Medical Sales Position Search – Part I I’m starting a new 6-part series on how to stand…

You know the drill for clinical sales career opportunity interviews:  research, prepare, and be ready for the toughest interview questions.
There are some career opportunity interview questions for health care sales career opportunities that inevitably travel candidates up.  “What’s your greatest weakness?“  is a famous one.   The typical advice you’ll usually discover is to prepare for the interview by [...] Related posts:

1. Should you hire an interview coach? There’s tremendous amounts of advice you can find in books…
2. Funny Job Interview Video: The Origin of Career opportunity Interviews I discovered this on YouTube–The Origin of Job Interviews from…
3. 10 Popular Behavioral Interview Queries for Clinical Sales Behavioral interview questions are the norm for career opportunity interviews in…

As a clinical sales headhunter, I get almost every single day inquiries from people who would like to be in pharmaceutical revenue even though they have no revenue background and wanna know what they should do.  I’m never surprised to get these calls.  Medical revenue is (I think) the major tier of revenue categories, and there [...] Related posts:

1. How Does a Nurse Transition into Pharma Sales? Pharmaceutical Device Sales? Laboratory Sales? Here’s a Job Search Strategy for You Nurses have a few natural advantages when it comes to…
2. Tips for Landing a Medical Sales Job The term “medical revenue” covers a lot of area: clinical…
3. Nurses: Looking for a Career Change? Think About A Transition Into a Pharmaceutical Sales Career If you are a nurse who is thinking about a…

If it’s true that 55% of pharma device sales professionals will be looking for a new job this year, then odds are good that you might be one of ‘em.   Even with the ‘churn’ in the market this year, lab device is a great place to be.  There are awesome positions available for the right [...] Related posts:

1. Discover a Mentor for Your Clinical Sales Career I found a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out…
2. Nurses: Looking for a Career Change? Think About A Transition Into a Pharmaceutical Revenue Career If you’re a nurse who is thinking about a…
3. Pharma Device Sales Rep Uses Career Coaching to Wordsmith… Here’s Melissa’s story:  I went through a very difficult career…

There’s tremendous amounts of advice you can find in books and online for how to answer job interview questions, and some of it says to practice your interview answers with a friend, or clip yourself so that you can play it back to see your weak spots.  It’s priceless advice.  It’s always harder to critique [...] Related posts:

1. “Umm, Uh… Could you, like, NOT hire me?”: How to Underwhelm Your Position Interviewer Career opportunity interviews generally make people nervous, and understandably so:  you’re…
2. Pharma Sales Interview Question Tip: “You Don’t Have Experience…Why Should We Hire You?” Would you like to transition into pharma sales? What if…
3. “Do you’ve any queries?” (The answer is “Yes!”) The other day, I conducted a phone interview with…

I bought my husband Kraig a new electric guitar for his birthday in July.  He’d wanted one for a while, and has tooled around with it nice-looking consistently, about 20 minutes a day–and he’s not bad.  But, as he said me, he’s “plateaued”.  He’s gone as far as his skills will take him, and [...] Related posts:

1. How Can Career Coaching from the Medical Sales Recruiter Help You? As a pharma sales recruiter, I spend a lot of…
2. Pharma Device Sales Rep Uses Career Coaching to Wordsmith… Here’s Melissa’s story:  I went through a very difficult career…
3. Tired of interviewing and not getting that sales job you want? Career Coaching works! Job Seeker to Peggy: The phone interview was a bust….

There’s an article on EmploymentDigest.net that you should see.  It’s about how finding a mentor can help you advance your career, but it also has several important points about how to choose a career mentor, keeping in mind that your manager, headhunter, or your friend might not be the best choices for you.  A manager, [...] Related posts:

1. Find a Mentor for Your Lab Sales Career I discovered a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out…
2. How Can Career Coaching from the Clinical Sales Recruiter Help You? As a laboratory sales recruiter, I spend a lot of…
3. Careers for laboratory professionals who want to get off the bench: molecular, cyto, histo, med tech, etc. When we go off to college, sometimes we choose a…

I found a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out how helpful a mentor can be to your career, and gives you some ideas about what to look for in a mentor as well as how to discover one–like at your company, in a professional organization, or a friend who’s farther along in their career [...] Related posts:

1. How Can Career Coaching from the Medical Sales Recruiter Help You? As a clinical sales recruiter, I spend a lot of…
2. Improved Sales Performance for Clinical Revenue I met Lance Cooper on Twitter.  He’s the President of…
3. How a Career Coach Helped Jennifer Get a Great Sales position! Jennifer had little experience in sales and was having trouble…