Is Pharmaceutical Sales Job For You?

Ever wonder such question before applying for a sales position?

Or you have the mentality..." whatever comes my way. It's better than nothing!"?

Pause.

When I first started out in pharmaceutical sales job, I was just graduated, and jobless for 3 months.

I wander around with my neighbor's motorbike, climbing stairs of every pathology lab in my hometown, with no result.

No result!

And their reason for not taking me it was, "You have a degree. You'll leave soon."

How could they possibly know?

Until one day, I got a call from a National Sales Manager from Roche Diagnostic to attend an interview at their Headquarters in Jalan Ampang (near KLCC, World tallest building currently).

There on, my career in pharmaceutical sales took off.

Roche has a distinct way of an interview then.

(I was told they still practicing them until today).

The first interview, the National Sales Manager screen you through.

Next, 6 Managers will interview you, including the General Manager,, and you will be given a brochure of a product.

You are required to sell the product to them!

You can guess how anxious I was, having no sales training whatsoever, with that kind of task.
And I guess I did 'not-that-bad.'

I remember when asked by one of the managers, "Why do you want to do sales job?"
My answer was, "I want to be rich!"

Now, my question to you:

• "Can you sell me this product...here's the brochure."
• "Why do you want to do sales job?"
• "Really...?"...just kidding! ;)

Seriously, that was a part of the preparation.

How are you doing so far?

Is a pharmaceutical sales job, the job for you?