It’s likely you’re going to find yourself in a behavioral job interview sometime in your job search.  Do you know how to handle it?  Behavioral interviews focus on past job behavior and performance (what did you do in a given situation) with the idea that this information will predict your future behavior and performance.  Behavioral interviews […]

Sometimes candidates with degrees in the sciences find that they have a lot more information that the employer might want to know about them that just won’t fit in the traditional resume format.  To combat that issue and give yourself an interview edge, consider building a “Technology Sheet” – this is a one-page, column-formated accounting […]

    In the grocery store of life, you have to figure out why someone would pick you up off the shelf,” says Andrea Nierenberg, president of the Nierenberg Group, a business communication-consulting firm in New York. “Are you new and improved? Are you repackaged? What are you doing to get that competitive edge? What […]

Internships can be tremendously valuable to college students looking for that resume experience, but I recently came across an article about how some college students are paying for the privilege. Bad idea. There are better ways to spend your money…like custom consulting from a recruiter in the industry you’re heading for. You can learn what […]

  For more information on how to get into any area of health care sales (laboratory sales, clinical diagnostics sales, research laboratory sales, biotechnology sales, medical device sales, pathology sales, imaging sales, hospital equipment sales, or pharmaceutical sales), see How to Get Into Medical Sales – Volume I: The Documents.

Don’t underestimate how important thank you letters are in the job interview process. Everybody “knows” they’re critical, but unbelievably, not everyone writes them. Thank you letters accomplish several things: 1) They get your name in front of the hiring manager one more time. 2) They are your last chance to package yourself as the best, […]