1.      Identify good recruiters to work with, specifically those who will represent you beyond your resume. Be aware of recruiters who do not ask you any questions and do not tell you whether or not they are sending your resume to the hiring client.

2.      Never pay a for a Recruiter to represent you as the Recruiter is paid by the Client company, and is tasked with finding  the most qualified candidates to be interviewed. One should be leery of any recruiter who promises you a job if you pay them a fee.

3.      Always ask the recruiter before the end of your conversation who they are representing. You need to do this because you may already be represented by another Recruiter or you may have applied to that company or previously interviewed. A Recruiter does not want to duplicate your efforts. Additionally it never works in your best interest to be represented by multiple sources. You must be up front with the Recruiter in the beginning. By covering up who represents you or whether or not you applied may come back to haunt you in the end. Please note that there will be times when a Recruiter cannot reveal the client company for one or two reasons; 1) the search is confidential OR 2) the Recruiter is working on the search as a split Recruiter and the other Recruiter has “ownership” of the search with the client. In either case, the Recruiter should be able to give you a valid reason why they cannot reveal the client. (more…)

Want absolutely the best place to go to find all the Medical Sales Jobs and Clinical Support jobs across the country and basically free for you?  One click and you will see daily almost every job available that is posted in the USA?

At RecruitBUZZ we usually have between 25 to 40 medical sales jobs at a given time.  If we don’t have a job that fits your needs (at the time of your call),  we direct you to our Career Resource Blog and we use our off-hours to find resources for you as Job Seekers to help you conduct your own Job Search.  Well, we received a call on Friday that our favorite FREE MEDICAL SALES JOB BOARD (MedRepCareers.com) has added some additional resources that really should be your first, if not almost your only, place to go find a Medical Sales Job or Clinical Nurse Support Job and top marketing and management jobs across the USA!

Why we like the board for Job Seekers:

1. It has over 125,000 (plus) medical sales, support and management jobs across the country at any given time!  This has to be the single largest store of jobs in our medical market place!
2. They have done the work for you with search Job Category links and fresh jobs added daily.
3. Job Seekers can register for FREE and view all their jobs.
4. Job Seekers can upload their Resume into their data base for only VIEWING BY Medical Sales Recruiters (not hiring companies, like your current employer!).
5. Job Seekers can decide not to upload their resumeand just view the available jobs and respond to those jobs that allow you to via e-mail Resume attachements uploaded from your computer.

It is a nice Gorilla Job Search Arsenal to register and add MedRepCareers.com to your overall Job Search Strategy. 

At this point I have written several articles within the Gorilla Job Search Series.  Many of you have asked me to tie them together in one article boiling it all down to one solid overall aggressive, multi-strategy approach to finding a Medical Sales or Sales or Marketing Management Job.  Please stay tuned for the next article addressing this need.  by Linda Hertz, please e-mail me with your suggestions for new articles at linda@recruitbuzz.com with BLOG ARTICLE SUGGESTION in the SUBJECT area.

You can also post general comments pertaining to any article written below each article CONFIDENTIALLY without having to post your name or e-mail address in the “no comment or # comment” link below!  You should see your comments posted immediately.  Thank you for your comments to help other Job Seekers!

   I felt compelled to write an article this week about the calls and stories we have been receiving from many of you, sales representatives and sales managers alike.  Many of you have been through the wringer, sitting by your home office phone, as instructed by your company, waiting for your scheduled call from your HR Department or immediate manager; the call where you will be told if you will be one of the lucky ones who keeps your job.   If you are one of the “lucky ones”, you then quickly realize that your company is only in phase one out of two or three phases of layoffs scheduled!  You quickly realize you will be sitting by that phone praying perhaps a few more times before April 1st. Now that is a heck of an April Fools Day!  Do you see they signs of jobs being cut at YOUR company?  Then read on…. (more…)

OK, you lost your job and you need to immediately get your resume to anyone and everyone quickly, especially in this market!  Well this is the BIG BAZOOKA of Gorilla Tactics….we have a vehicle for you where you can blast your resume in one pull of the trigger! We usually don’t endorse any one particular product, but we like this one enough to sponsor them on our website.  You don’t want to read the rest? This will shoot to medical device and pharmaceutical medical recruiters across the USA:

Many of you probably have not heard about this service, but it is ideal for people who have lost their job and want maximum exposure to their resume.  Medical Device Resume Blaster and the companion piece for those of you who have a pharmaceutical background, Pharma Resume Blaster: THEY ARE ONE SERVICE for both.

What is this?  This is really one compay and both packages are really the same thing, for marketing purposes they differentiate their adds to appeal to one or the other market sector; Medical Device or Pharmaceutical Sales.  If this program appeals to you, only buy One Package, not both…again, all resumes go to one source: all medical and pharmaceutical sales recruiters who are registered, and a ton of us are registered.  Why?  Because we get the resume’s free (and us recruiters LOVE free) and resume’s literally “blast” into our e-mail box every day AND we know that IF we like what we see, we better respond fast because we are competing against other recruiters for your resume…YOU!

Hold on there, sounds too good to be true?  Well, there is a small cost involved, but I am about to share with you some key points to consider BEFORE you purchase anything and if you decide Resume Blaster is right for you; then I will share with you the least expensive way to use this service!

Key Points

1. If you have lost your job, this is the BEST way to get maximum exposure to your resume immediately to medical sales recruiters, combined with maximizing the use of FREE Job Boards and building and accessing your Career Network! 
2. I suggest making your resume “key word” search friendly BEFORE you blast out your resume, why? As mentioned in number 6 below; recruiters will put your resume in their data bases and you want them to find your resume for the next job opportunity they have!  Need to know more on how to craft your medical sales resume with “key words” that will pop your resume to the top in our databases? You can find my article on this subject here.
3. Certainly you can use Resume Blaster if you are currently employed, they are diligent in making sure ONLY RECRUITERS receive the resumes, BUT there are no guarantees.  So if you fall into this bucket you decide what is best for your own situation and understand you have no control over who and what recruiters get your resume. 
4. I highly suggest you set up a Yahoo FREE E-Mail Account  (again, I love FREE stuff) or similar service.  Having a permanent e-mail that is designated for your job hunt will keep your Resume Blaster service separate from your every day e-mails; you may continue to get e-mails from recruiters….even perhaps a year or two after your hunt is finished.  This is a good thing, YOU NEVER KNOW when you may need a job in the future!
5. This is also a great service if you have a decent resume; no multiple job hopping every year or two, a 4 year degree, some solid sales experience (preferrably in the medical, pharmaceutical industry or strong “business to business” sales) and your resume is reasonably well written.  Remember, sending out an ugly toad to 1200 princesses does not increase your chance of getting a kiss! 
6. What package to buy?  I suggest only buying the $49.99 ONE SHOT BLAST, that’s it!  Repeating the blast or paying for a priority blast is a WASTE of money.  Why? Because all of us top recruiters put your resume in our databases and we don’t lose you (unless you are a Toad of course!).  NO need to send it again over and over; if you aren’t getting called by any of the over 1,200 recruiters that recieved your blast, than you may just have too many warts on that resume for this to work for you!  So you decide if this is a fit for you and if it is, well go ahead and Email your resume to over 1200 MEDICAL Recruiters here ! 

If you like to order from a picture go ahead, remember Med Device Blaster and Pharma Blaster are ONE COMPANY and ordering from here gets you to both places:

 
We understand the unemployment numbers have jumped and they continue to do so every week, even in our usually “safe” industry.  I am a strong advocate of using multiple Job Search Strategies and approaches to finding a job in a tough marketplace.  The Resume Blaster approach is just one more arsenal to include in your Extreme Job Search Tactics.    So blast away! By Linda Hertz