Resume For Sales Professional Healthcare - Work Experience
- Date: 2007-06-08 - Word Count: 388
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The most important section that reviewers will look at in resumes is the work experience history. Most resumes I've seen fall flat because most people write their work experience from a purely job description point of view. This is not the most effective way of capturing your work experience. We will use the work experience from an example resume for sales professional healthcare in order to illustrate the best way to format this important section.
Three distinct parts are suggested for each previous position in work history. The first is the company name, job position or title and time period. It is also recommended to add in the location of this position. The second part is a brief job description of the general tasks that were involved. It is nice to make the text for this part slightly different as a visual effect and italics will do a good job here. The third part consists of a few bullet points outlining some achievements during the position. This is the part that most people miss on their resumes but would be of most interest to reviewers.
A job position from a sample resume for a sales professional in healthcare is shown below. It shows only the current job position but all previous positions are formatted the same way.
WORK EXPERIENCE
ABC PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY 2004-Present
Pharmaceutical Sales Representative
Somecity, Somestate
Managed a territory consisting of both specialist and family physicians. Developed specialist physicians into advocate speakers, worked on obtaining hospital drug formulary additions, conducted market research for marketing department and raised company profile in regional medical community.
• Achieved higher growth levels than both national and regional levels in sales of all promoted products; some were more than double while one was highest in the company (55% growth in sales for Drug Z).
• Achieved 'Gold' standing for top ten sales representatives nationally during last three years.
• Successfully developed several key specialist speakers to advocate level in the areas of cardiology and nephrology in the Somestate region.
The above example was modeled after a real life case where a sales representative in healthcare used this format in his resume to get a position with another pharmaceutical company. It is ideal for people with a good track record in a certain industry such as healthcare sales as this type of resume helps set them up for promotion to more senior positions.
Three distinct parts are suggested for each previous position in work history. The first is the company name, job position or title and time period. It is also recommended to add in the location of this position. The second part is a brief job description of the general tasks that were involved. It is nice to make the text for this part slightly different as a visual effect and italics will do a good job here. The third part consists of a few bullet points outlining some achievements during the position. This is the part that most people miss on their resumes but would be of most interest to reviewers.
A job position from a sample resume for a sales professional in healthcare is shown below. It shows only the current job position but all previous positions are formatted the same way.
WORK EXPERIENCE
ABC PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY 2004-Present
Pharmaceutical Sales Representative
Somecity, Somestate
Managed a territory consisting of both specialist and family physicians. Developed specialist physicians into advocate speakers, worked on obtaining hospital drug formulary additions, conducted market research for marketing department and raised company profile in regional medical community.
• Achieved higher growth levels than both national and regional levels in sales of all promoted products; some were more than double while one was highest in the company (55% growth in sales for Drug Z).
• Achieved 'Gold' standing for top ten sales representatives nationally during last three years.
• Successfully developed several key specialist speakers to advocate level in the areas of cardiology and nephrology in the Somestate region.
The above example was modeled after a real life case where a sales representative in healthcare used this format in his resume to get a position with another pharmaceutical company. It is ideal for people with a good track record in a certain industry such as healthcare sales as this type of resume helps set them up for promotion to more senior positions.
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Clint Cora is the author of the book "How To Get A Dream Job In Pharmaceutical Sales - Direct Inside Advice and Guidance from a Sales Manager". He had a very successful fourteen year career as a pharmaceutical sales representative, sales trainer, product marketing manager and a national sales manager. More information about pharmaceutical sales careers can be found at www.GetPharmaceuticalSalesJob.com Your Article Search Directory : Find in Articles
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