If you don’t know how to go about finding a medical sales position, the “Resume Blast” that many online recruiters offer online seems like a good option to explore. “Get your resume into the hands of hundreds of companies that are hiring..” is how many of the websites read. I can tell you from experience that this is not how the better jobs get filled.
Companies look for candidates that will try to sell themselves into a job as if that is the approach they will use to sell their products. While a “shotgun” approach in medical sales will yield some positive results, much better returns are obtained through a carefully planned, targeted approach.
Being able to have an insider in the company refer you for consideration, or knowing how to sell yourself cold into an interview are skills that will get you noticed and land you a great job. Besides, if you think you have what it takes for this industry, you better be able to prove it from the get-go!
My advice — save your money and wasted hopes. Don’t think that you can take a lazy approach into getting hired for medical sales by having some website do the work for you. It probably won’t happen.
Hi Mace, not sure you’re 100% right on wasting your time with resume blasting. If you fine a good service with a valid recruiters across the country then putting ones resume in their hands can be a good thing.
Most tenured and experienced recruiters now-a-days because of technology and networking are searching for good medical sales professionals coast to coast to fill their national opportunities.
YES, I will agree that in the old days most recruiters had limited coverage and usually stuck in their own back yard BUT today that’s not the case.
The services are cost effective and in most cases the cost is less then a good meal and a glass of wine.
Just my opinion! but after 32 years of talking to healthcare reps and seeing what works and what doesn’t any good help that can enhance someone’s chances of getting to this great profession is worth the try.
Thanks,
Ralph Steeber CPC
President
Medicalreps.com
Ralph,
I appreciate your comments, and for anyone reading, Ralph’s site – http://www.MedicalReps.com – is one of the better recruiter sites by far. Unfortunately Ralph, not all online medical sales recruiters run their sites as well as you do. I speak with countless people who pay good money to get their resumes posted and they never hear from the recruiter until it’s time to renew.
Job candidates need to understand that they can’t throw together a mediocre (most are not that good) resume, give it to a recruiter to blast, and then sit back and expect miracles. Especially when the applicant has no medical sales experience or no selling experience whatsoever, one can blast all the resumes he or she wants but nothing will happen! True, the cost is not great, but the disappointment is. People who have the innate skills to do well in medical sales give up and quit because they are not getting any responses, and the reason they don’t get responses is because they often take the wrong approach.
As a recruiter, you have years of real-world experience. If candidates want to take this approach, they should do it with a reputable site like yours. They just need to have realistic expectations based on what their resumes look like. I know when you look at a resume, you don’t sugar coat your opinion.
Thanks again for your comments.
Mace
Mace,
You’re correct in that there are too many services that don’t screen and evaluate subscribers. They just take money from “anyone who pays” whether they have the necessary education, experience and overall package of what todays healthcare recruiters want.
Medicalreps doesn’t offer resume blasting service BUT does offer to review anyones resume and offer our valid opinion on whether this type service would be a benefit in their job search efforts.
Thanks for your kind words about our website. Our goal is to some day be the @1 job portal for medical sales professionals coast to coast.
Ralph Steeber
Medicalreps.com