If you are a sales professional or want to become one, or if you are looking for a new sales job, you will face one of the toughest interview processes of any job seeker.
The answer is: not too much. As of last week, the Boston Globe reported that only one out of the 11 companies they included had falling stock prices: Stryker, which only fell .2%. Abbott Labs did the best, rising TWO.5%, and Zimmer gained the least at .1%.
Unlike laboratory sales, areas like clinical device sales tend to [...]
Posts from ‘March, 2009’
How does this economy affect medical device companies?
Company Car Allowance vs. Mileage vs. Company Car for Revenue Reps in Pathology, Clinical or Healthcare….
One of my hiring managers (a client) wrote this (and kindly agreed to share it with you):
“While it isn’t scientific and it certainly has room for bias; my last poll of our team was they like the full mileage reimbursement as it lets Them own the car of their choice. We pay $0.55 / mile. [...]
Careers for lab professionals who want to get off the bench: molecular, cyto, histo, med tech, etc.
When we go off to college, sometimes we choose a career that just does not satisfy our needs. Many times scientists with the BS, MS, or PhD in the lifesciences or other science areas discover themselves to be unsatisfied with the position that they discover themselves in a year or two after graduation. What seemed [...]
Big Medical Device Companies
The Boston Globe’s list of the Top Medical Device Companies includes giants like Thermo Fischer Scientific (at $9,746.4 million in revenue) to smaller companies like Palomar Medical Technologies (at $122.9 million). In between are PerkinElmer, Zoll Pharma Corp., and Cynosure.
If you’re looking for a career opportunity in clinical device sales, these kinds of lists are great resources, but you should go [...]
Pharmaceutical Sales Headhunter has her own Economic Stimulus Plan…
Send this on to any hiring manager in the laboratory, laboratory or research arena. PHC Consulting is dedicated to driving your sales dollars! How?
By providing any client that says they wanna participate in the PHC Consulting Stimulus Plan, with 2 rainmaker sales reps for the price of 1!
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Pharma Revenue Meetings: which would you prefer?
Companies wanna reward their sales reps for what they have achieved and motivate ‘em to greater goals in 2009. Sales talks can do this! Often, companies offer these sales meetings at resorts or other vacation destinations. But with so much going on in life, sales reps are more interested in sales meetings that just [...]
