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When you send your RESUME to a headhunter by email, don’t send a cover letter as an attachment.  For the most part, it’s a waste of time.  A busy clinical sales recruiter doesn’t have time to open extra attachments, and expects that you’ll say what you need to say in the body [...] Related posts:

1. RESUME Objective Statements: Tell the Hiring Manager Why He Should Read the Rest of Your RESUME Don’t be fooled by people who tell you that RESUME…
2. Send Your VP of Sales and Marketing a Thank You Note Many sales reps who spend time with upper-level people in…
3. Peggy’s movie scene about your Resume for Clinical Sales I actually go through my 12 inch stack of resumes…

A sales rep’s job is to make the sale.  So if you’re looking for a new sales job in pharmaceutical revenue, pharma device sales, or any other health care revenue arena, the best way to get a medical laboratory sales job is to make it your mission is to demonstrate that you can ring that cash [...] Related posts:

1. How to Prepare for a Behavioral Job Interview in Clinical laboratory Revenue A behavioral job interview is a popular interview tactic in…
2. Interviews: How to Answer the Career opportunity References Question Your job references are important to your career opportunity search success. …
3. STAR Interview Technique for Behavioral Job Interviews Employers want to know about more than just your skills…

If you want your CV to actually be a product management document for you, and get a headhunter’s or a hiring manager’s attention, you must pack that resume with the keywords that are relevant to the career area you want.  Recruiters, hiring managers, and Human Resource departments use computer searches and applicant tracking systems to flag [...] Related posts:

1. Keywords in your Pathology Sales Resume Peggy talks about how to get quality keywords in your…
2. CV Objective Statements: Tell the Hiring Manager Why He Should Read the Rest of Your Resume Don’t be fooled by people who tell you that resume…
3. Tips for Landing a Pathology Sales Career opportunity The term “pharmaceutical revenue” covers a lot of area: medical…

Don’t be fooled by people who tell you that resume objective statements are optional, or that you shouldn’t have one at all.  Their reasoning is usually that objective statements fence you in and limit your job-seeking focus.
I’m here to tell you that you need an objective statement on your CV.  Why? An objective statement tells me [...] Related posts:

1. RESUME Objectives: What Do You Want? RESUME objectives are a big topic online.  Apparently, it’s a…
2. Should you e-mail your 30/60/90-day revenue plan to the hiring manager? As a Clinical Revenue Recruiter, I recommend to all my…
3. How to Help the Hiring Manager Be Decisive–and Make You the Offer! Answering objections in a job interview is a skill you’ll…

Jennifer M. tells all about how a career coach (that would be me) made her dream job come true (even in this economy)!
I worked with Jennifer mid July. We fixed her resume, worked on her social media skills, helped her target hiring managers (and gave her the secret of what to ask for when she [...] Related posts:

1. Tired of interviewing and not getting that sales job you want? Career Coaching works! Position Seeker to Peggy: The phone interview was a bust….
2. Position Search Tip: Complete the Entire Job Application Latest story:  A hiring manager I am working with in…
3. How Can Career Coaching from the Clinical Sales Recruiter Help You? As a clinical laboratory sales recruiter, I spend a lot of…

Picture this:  You’ve put together a awesome CV, you’ve lined up your references, you’ve got an handsome brag book, you’ve researched your 30/60/90-day plan, and you’ve landed an exciting interview in medical revenue, pharma sales, clinical diagnostics sales, biotechnology sales, clinical device sales, or laboratory sales.  But:  What do you do if you run into [...] Related posts:

1. “Do you have any musings?” (The answer is “Yes!”) The other day, I conducted a phone interview with…
2. Ten Worst Answers to Job Interview Questions Discovered this at Hot Career/Interview Tips: Let me start by…
3. What musings will they ask in a clinical sales interview? Interview preparation in any industry requires that you know what…

Hey, give me 4 minutes and I’ll give you three of the major 10 queries, the answers and save you at least 500 bucks!
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Get the answers to 47 more Medical Sales queries from Peggy Article courtesy of  Peggy [...] Related posts:

1. Peggy spills the beans on the major 50 questions about medical revenue… Get the 90 minute audio conference, the RESUME audio…
2. 10 Funniest Interview Questions 10.  “Who would win a battle between a ninja and…
3. Win Ipod Classic – I need Big 50 Questions You have About Medical/Healthcare/Pharma Sales and How to break in…. I am going to do an audio conference at…

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

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If you’re searching for a position in pharmaceutical revenue, pharma sales, healthcare sales, clinical diagnostics revenue, clinical laboratory sales, imaging sales, biotech sales, medical device revenue, hospital equipment revenue, or clinical sales, you want every advantage you can get, right?  Which means, you’ve probably put a lot of effort into your CV, you’ve discovered the perfect [...] Related posts:

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