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When you send your resume to a recruiter by email, don’t send a cover letter as an attachment.  For the most part, it’s a waste of time.  A busy lab revenue headhunter doesn’t have time to open extra attachments, and expects that you’ll say what you have 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 CV…
2. Send Your VP of Sales and Marketing a Thank You Note Many revenue reps who spend time with upper-level people in…
3. Peggy’s video about your Resume for Medical Sales I actually go through my 12 inch stack of resumes…

A sales rep’s position is to make the sale.  So if you’re looking for a new revenue career opportunity in pharma sales, laboratory device revenue, or any other health care sales arena, the best way to get a clinical laboratory revenue 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 Career opportunity Interview in Laboratory Sales A behavioral job interview is a popular interview tactic in…
2. Interviews: How to Answer the Position References Question Your job references are important to your career opportunity search success. …
3. STAR Interview Technique for Behavioral Career opportunity Interviews Employers want to know about more than just your skills…

If you want your RESUME to actually be a product management document for you, and get a recruiter’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 Clinical 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 Medical Revenue Job The term “pharmaceutical sales” 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. CV Objectives: What Do You Want? CV objectives are a major topic online.  Apparently, it’s a…
2. Should you e-mail your 30/60/90-day sales plan to the hiring manager? As a Clinical Sales Headhunter, 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 fantasy 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 revenue job you want? Career Coaching works! Job 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 Medical Sales Headhunter Help You? As a medical sales recruiter, I spend a lot of…

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

1. “Do you’ve any questions?” (The answer is “Yes!”) The other day, I conducted a phone interview with…
2. 10 Worst Answers to Career opportunity Interview Questions Discovered this at Hot Career/Interview Tips: Let me start by…
3. What questions will they ask in a laboratory sales interview? Interview preparation in any industry requires that you know what…

Hey, give me 4 minutes and I’ll give you 3 of the major 10 questions, the answers and save you at least 500 bucks!
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Get the answers to 47 more Pharma Sales queries from Peggy Article courtesy of  Peggy [...] Related posts:

1. Peggy spills the beans on the top 50 queries about pharmaceutical revenue… Get the 90 minute audio conference, the RESUME audio…
2. 10 Funniest Interview Questions Ten.  “Who would win a battle between a ninja and…
3. Win Ipod Classic – I need Major 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 pharmaceutical revenue headhunter, I spend a lot of time on the phone fielding inquiries from position seekers.  Not only about specific jobs in medical sales, pharmaceutical revenue, imaging sales, biotech sales, clinical diagnostics sales, laboratory sales, medical device revenue, 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 career opportunity in clinical revenue, medical sales, healthcare sales, clinical diagnostics sales, clinical laboratory revenue, imaging revenue, biotech sales, clinical laboratory device sales, hospital equipment sales, 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 flawless [...] Related posts:

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