subject: What Are the Building Blocks For a Great Medical Sales Career? [print this page] What Are the Building Blocks For a Great Medical Sales Career?
Strengthening your career plan and developing strategies to reach the professional and economic goals you have is always a valuable exercise. Whether you have just graduated from college or you are a grizzled veteran with many years or even decades of experience, taking a step back and assessing where you are with your career plan can make for a more rewarding professional life personally and economically. What have you done recently about this?
A great strategy is not developed accidentally. To create the right plan, you have to examine your current career situation along several different major lines of analysis including:
When you look at the position you would like to have in 5 years or 10 years, what educational background describes the individuals in these positions? This is a critical consideration and should be examined without trying to justify your credentials. You are looking for commonality from as many good examples as possible.
Can you identify what the network of vendors, contractors, peers, and managers reporting to this person would often be? Your network development plan should incorporate these kinds of contacts.
Also, developing a network of recruiters and peer business relationships could prove extremely useful. Exposure to medical and health care sales best practices will prove strategic for long-term success. Participation in industry opportunities builds access and later career opportunity momentum.
Further, you should have a sense of how long you should be seeking to remain at each point of your career plan before promotions and lateral moves. Also, you should ensure you are aware of the experiences and other factors that may be playing a role in these positions.
Much of this may seem impossible or a struggle to accomplish. However, over the course of years with a clear vision, these objectives become reasonable. However, translating the objectives, roles, responsibilities, and experiences a defined strategy with a defined execution plan becomes a reasonable and achievable goal.
So, are you serious about your career? If so, you need to get started creating a well conceived and detailed career plan. And, you have to put that career plan into action with executable steps, actions, and expectations. Begin today by understanding where you are headed, what the connections you will need are, and what experiences you must have and begin creating your plan.
