Why do so many in the medical sales arena look
at pharmaceutical sales reps as having no real sales experience?
Not exact matches
She continued running her cleaning business during the day, and
at night she began baking dozens of cupcakes in her kitchen, and sold them to friends who were
pharmaceutical sales reps to take on their medical staff visits.
Here's a slightly racier look
at the upcoming romantic comedy Love and Other Drugs starring Jake Gyllenhaal as a
pharmaceutical sales rep for, of all things, Viagra, and Anne Hathaway as the love interest that will change his life.
According to the data, the more
pharmaceutical sales reps travel, the more money they earn, with the highest earners saying they travel overnight
at least 75 % of the time.
If you've read my blog for very long, you know that I don't think that
pharmaceutical sales requires
reps to be all that skilled in
sales: they don't ask for a close, they don't place orders, they have no power over pricing, and they have no power in the relationship... so, when he said that to me, it made me think he hadn't done his research about the different types of
sales jobs, or really put that much thought into it
at all.When I told him that with his background, he should think about laboratory
sales, or field applications, he said to me, «All I want to do is get off the bench.»
She explains in her blog that job shadowing will not only give you a better understanding of the daily activities of medical and
pharmaceutical sales reps, but when you list the experience on your resume, those critical keywords will suddenly be right
at the top!
Between ads for prescription drugs on television and seeing pharma
reps in physician waiting rooms, most people have
at least a general idea about what
pharmaceutical sales reps do.