Looking to Break Into Medical Sales

Discussion in 'Northeast Reps' started by CraigJ, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:08 AM.

  1. CraigJ

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    I am 34 Years old and am finally finishing my reinvention of myself. I am graduating in Nov. with a degree in Health Sciences (BA). I have sale experience in many different fields and I am looking to break into the Medical Sales. I guess I am just scratching the surface of things. I am in the Long Island Area but willing to dread the streets of NYC. Any advice or criticism would be welcomed.
     

  2. anonymous

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    congrats. LI is a very tough labor market for med sales reps...hiring that is. anyone with half a brain is making too much to hire away and drive most of their business in the city. Outside of that, I have interviewed no less than 75 candidates for a decent LI 160k 1st yr gig, with 200+ potential. Need med sales exp. Sorry, you're just too green for me. Good luck though.
     
  3. anonymous

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    Fair enough it is tough to break into in general. Medical sales is a great field. Guess it is who you know.
     
  4. anonymous

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    You take no for an answer that easy?
     
  5. CraigJ

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    Actually I don't take no for answer. Rather than someone trolling me and being somewhat unhelpful I have networked and had 5 interviews since this post. I am a persistent jerk and have always worked hard to get what I want. I just choose to ignore people whom offer nothing but negativity. If someone asked me. I would give theM a direction to go in and some ideas.
     
  6. anonymous

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    Ok you said you have sales experience, it needs to be business to business outside sales. That's how u break in when you're not 23 years old. It's how I did it. So if that's not the type of experience in sales u have spend a year working in that type of position while you're applying. A few companies Pharma hires from: Enterprise, Xerox, Cintas. Look at contract sales organizations too. They r a good way to get your foot in the door. Quintiles, Inventive, Publicis. You can break into pharma if you're persistent. Good luck.
     
  7. anonymous

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    Have you interviewed with any Drug Toxicology firms? They are always looking for good Sales Reps.
     
  8. anonymous

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    With the ongoing layoffs and cutbacks in the medication monitoring business, you may want to consider a sales position with Pacific Toxicology. PacTox has been in business for over 30 years and has NEVER had a layoff in our medication monitoring sales force. Operating with the highest levels of compliance standards of ethics is our core value. If you are interested, please call 1-888-678-4488
     
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    Give me a shout nsmith at deansmithcapital dot com
     
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  11. anonymous

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    Do you have sales experience? Get that! Get 100% of your quotas. Go work for Cintas, or ADP. Do not spend the $ to go to MSC. Talk to medical device recruiters. They will say the same thing. Good luck!
     
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  15. anonymous

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    does anyone know anything about a couple of schools/firms that provide medical sales training for a fee? i.e. Medical Sales College in Denver, and Surgical sales 101. They charge approx $4k for a 5 to 10 week class to prepare people like me for jobs selling medical devices including devices used in the OR. They provide actual OR experience, and meetings with surgeons, etc.

    Is this going to dramatically help my chances to break into this field?
     
  16. anonymous

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    No, it will not help. As a hiring mgr, I want to know you have gone out and made your own sales calls and actually have some measure of success. If you take a class where they pay a Md to sit with you, that is not selling. BC you have walked through an OR, doesn't mean you know how to get into an OR that you weren't invited to.

    Sorry, I know it would be easy to drop $4k and say you have experience/training. It doesn't work like that. Go sell something; ADP, Cintas, enterprise, copiers, cell phones, and push yourself t be the best. Measure your success. Then ask yourself "do I still want to be a med sales rep?" Don't skip steps. I will not even look at your resume.
     
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    I am trying to break into the industry myself. Now while I have no medical training, if there is one thing I do know it's sales! I've been in some of the harshest sales environments. Car sales (lot sales, tent events, super sales), cellular sales, b2b sales.
    I currently work for Cox cable standing inside a Walmart trying to sell service to customers in an area where roughly only 20% of people can get the service and out of that 20% at least half of the people already have the service with all the stops! But I keep pushing and hitting my numbers.
    The original sales team that trained me (which was a car super sales team) in my own personal way of describing them, were wolves and sharks! If a customer left the lot without buying something from me on that day I wasn't allowed to come back to work until I came back with Mr. customer in tow.
    Sales is in my blood! I wake up ready to sell to someone. I am ready to get break into this industry and hit the ground sprinting. I need training though. I have read on this thread that some one wanted to know about the online training such as medical sales college and surgical sales 101. They charge about 4,000 for the training and I'll have a good entry level knowledge base within 5-10 weeks.
    From a professional stand point will these programs (which I am doing my due diligence on) and my experience help me break into this field?
    I'm not worried about objections I deal with those every day
     
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    Hi I’m no to get back into medical or specialty sales. I have over 10 years sales experience in healthcare, pharma, wholesale and nonprofit. I worked in sales including Jnj moved to MarketingPR and glad to be back in sales within a start up. Have always been top 5-10% including number 1 region Jnj. Currently, excelled goals, pilot new programs that prove successful and brought on many new clients including physicians, hospitals and other clients whom are supportive of our collaboration and program. Long Island area. Please let me know of a great opportunity when arise. Thank you
     
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