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.
All career opportunity candidates worry about their performance in medical sales interviews, but here’s a few interview mistakes guaranteed to make you feel better about your chances.
- Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a “intimate” conversation.
- Candidate said the interviewer he wouldn’t be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if his uncle died — and his uncle wasn’t “looking too valuable.”
- Candidate asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.
- Candidate smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room.
- Candidate said she couldn’t provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was “classified.”
- Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss.
- When an applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn’t wanna line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.
- A candidate for an accounting career opportunity told she was a “people person” not a “numbers person.”
- Candidate flushed the toilet while talking to interviewer during phone interview.
- Candidate took out a hair brush and brushed her hair.
And you’re worried about wearing the right costume…..
Seriously, though–you should be. This same article cites a survey from hiring managers who say that the biggest mistake you can make in an interview is not dressing appropriately. Also on the list: talking negatively about your employer, acting disinterested, appearing arrogant, not providing specific answers, and not asking good questions. I personally would add TMI (Too Much Information) on your social networks. Click here to learn how to improve your interview skills.
Article courtesy of Peggy McKee - Owner / Senior Headhunter at the nationally
recognized pharma and pharmaceutical sales recruiting team of PHC Consulting.
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