Posts under ‘Career Coach’

Today’s job search is unlike any we’ve seen before.  Competition is especially fierce for pharmaceutical sales career opportunities in this economy, and candidates get weeded out quickly.  If you’ve landed the interview, you need 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. Pharma 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 Clinical laboratory Sales Job Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer?…
3. Should you hire a career coach to role play some job interview queries? You know the drill for clinical sales job interviews:  research,…

Did you ever wish you had the “inside track” at your clinical sales position interview?  Or that you knew exactly how to explain that slightly difficult/embarrassing/sensitive situation in your career opportunity history?  Or even the very best way to explain who you are and what you do in a compelling, “hire me” kind of way?  Maybe [...] Related posts:

1. How Interview Coaching Can Help You Get a Pharmaceutical Sales Career opportunity Are you going to interviews, but not getting the offer?…
2. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Pharmaceutical Sales Job Interview – Part V If you’ve been in the job search very long for…
3. The Importance of Questioning Skills in Your Pharma Revenue Job Interview It might surprise you to know that asking questions of…

If “no experience” is stopping you from the dream position that you desire?
Listen to this short audio movie about how to overcome this objection….. Want more job-getting advice? Check out this free training on “How to Get a Better Position Faster”
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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 position, why you’ve been out of [...] Related posts:

1. What You MUST Ask Before You Leave The Interview To prepare for a position interview in lab or health…
2. Typical Phone Interview Questions for Pharmaceutical Sales Jobs Phone interviews can be deceptively casual to some pharma sales…
3. The Secret to Standing Out in Your Clinical Sales Job Search – Part I I’m starting a new 6-part series on how to stand…

You know the drill for laboratory sales job interviews:  research, prepare, and be willing for the toughest interview questions.
There are some career opportunity interview musings for health care revenue career opportunities that inevitably trip 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 Job Interviews I found this on YouTube–The Origin of Career opportunity Interviews from…
3. 10 Popular Behavioral Interview Questions for Pharma Revenue Behavioral interview queries are the norm for job interviews in…

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

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

If it’s true that 55% of laboratory device revenue professionals will be looking for a new job this year, then odds are fine that you might be one of them.   Even with the ‘churn’ in the market this year, clinical device is a great place to be.  There are fantastic jobs available for the right [...] Related posts:

1. Find a Mentor for Your Pathology 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 Clinical Sales Career If you’re a nurse who is thinking about a…
3. Laboratory Device Revenue 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 discover in books and online for how to answer career opportunity interview queries, and some of it says to practice your interview answers with a friend, or movie scene yourself so that you can play it back to see your weak spots.  It’s worthwhile advice.  It’s always harder to critique [...] Related posts:

1. “Umm, Uh… Could you, like, NOT hire me?”: How to Underwhelm Your Job Interviewer Job interviews generally make people nervous, and understandably so:  you’re…
2. Clinical Sales Interview Question Tip: “You Don’t Have Experience…Why Should We Hire You?” Would you like to transition into clinical laboratory sales? What if…
3. “Do you have any questions?” (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 pretty consistently, about 20 minutes a day–and he’s not bad.  But, as he told 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 medical sales headhunter, I spend a lot of…
2. Pharmaceutical 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! Position 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, recruiter, or your friend might not be the best choices for you.  A manager, [...] Related posts:

1. Find a Mentor for Your Clinical Revenue Career I discovered a great article on Employmentdigest.net that points out…
2. How Can Career Coaching from the Medical Sales Recruiter Help You? As a medical 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…