Here’s a new article on whether you should use pharmaceutical sales recruiters or medical sales recruiters for your job searches. Many candidates send their resumes to medical recruiters. Actually, most people will try this routes with varying success. See this article at Medical Pharmaceutical Sales Recruiters.
For more general info on getting sales jobs in this industry, see Medical Sales Jobs Information
Our position about medical sales and pharmaceutical sales recruiters has always been that they can be part of the overall job hunting campaign but one should never solely rely on them to help you get your job. Recruiters can be excellent information resources and also give you some much needed interview experience.
One service that can help you get your pharmaceutical sales resume distributed to lots of recruiters is Pharma Resume Blaster. You may choose to use them as part of your overall job hunting campaign to get a pharmaceutical sales job.
If a career in nursing didn’t turn out the way you had hoped and you are ready to explore other options, medical sales or pharmaceutical sales may be a viable option. Former pharmaceutical industry executive Clint Cora discusses this career change option for nurses in a short video clip. It turns out that the experience working as a nurse can come in handy for other future careers. Nurses can apply some of their skills to other related fields. See this video at Medical Sales After Nursing Careers.
Someone recently asked which career would be better, one in pharmaceutical sales or medical device sales. They are different even though both are in the health care field. Both areas can involve physicians as customers but for medical devices, the customer base would involve more than just doctors and more types of individuals than compared to pharmaceutical sales. The salary structure is also different.
To get the best answer, it is best for somebody who is interested in these careers to speak to reps who are already working in these fields. Even shadow them for a day at work if possible to get an idea of what their jobs are like. This will give you a true accurate view of whether you would like these careers or not.
For pharmaceuticals, different areas within drug sales are in an article about Pharmaceutical Sales Jobs.
For those who are located in the northern US states or in Canada and want to become drug representatives, one thing to keep in mind is that traveling out in the roads plus in and out of medical offices all day long during the cold winter months are a fact of life. This I remember quite vividly during my years as a drug representative.
You must be willing to accept this as part of the job if you are going after a drug rep career especially in the winter snow regions. There are other factors to consider as well to determine some of the realities of the job. See these at Attributes Required For Pharmaceutical Representatives.
The pharmaceutical sales audio CD, which is an optional upgrade for those who purchase the Audio & Text Downloadable Package, contains not only the five and a half hour program by Clint Cora, but also includes the ebook version of “How To Get A Dream Job In Pharmaceutical Sales – Direct Inside Advice and Guidance from a Sales Manager”.
But that’s not all. This CD also had the two other ebook guide bonuses. See Pharmaceutical Sales Audio CD Upgrade for more details or click the image below.
Those who are hoping to enter the medical sales field should consider jobs that involve promoting over the counter (OTC) products. In many cases, these medical sales positions are easier to get than those involving prescription drugs and therefore represent excellent entry level jobs into the industry.
Some medical fields such as pediatrics and dermatology as well as family medicine, involve a great deal of over the counter products that do not require prescriptions.
Those who work in medical sales positions with primarily OTC products will have excellent experience to move over to prescription drug representative positions if they wish. See more details in Medical Sales Positions With OTCs.
There is now a nice collection of Pharmaceutical Sales Careers Information articles available for people to check out if they are thinking about pursuing such a career path. All of these articles were written by a former pharmaceutical sales industry executive.
And then if you are seriously thinking about starting a job search for a pharmaceutical sales job, then you definitely want to get your hands on “How To Get A Dream Job In Pharmaceutical Sales – Direct Inside Advice and Guidance from a Sales Manager” which is available in both ebook and audio book versions. For more details, see Pharmaceutical Sales Programs.
I posted up a new video that discusses whether one needs a science degree or scientific background to get a medical sales representative job. Somebody on YouTube already posted a comment mentioning that he graduated with a business degree and is now working as a medical sales rep. See the Medical Sales Science video now up.
Here’s what Cheyenne Winters of Texas writes about the book “How To Get A Dream Job In Pharmaceutical Sales – Direct Inside Advice and Guidance from a Sales Manager“;
“How To Get A Dream Job In Pharmaceutical Sales has been truly beneficial in aiding my quest to be a pharmaceutical representative. I found the examples and explanations for styles of resumes and cover letter information most helpful. My previous resume just wasn’t an adequate representation of my sales and public speaking qualities. The chapters on information interviews and telephone interviews were vital.”
Cheyenne goes to add;
“I really wish I would have had this information prior to my first phone interview with Pfizer. I would recommend this book to anyone who was changing career paths. It is a step-by-step, easy to read manual that illustrates how to make a smooth transition from any career to one in pharmaceutical sales.”
It’s too bad that she didn’t get the book before her Pfizer interview but now that she has learned from this book and even benefited from a custom resume evaluation by its author Clint Cora, Cheyenne is now in a much better position to continue with her search for a pharmaceutical sales job.
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