After I did my talking at a local Toastmasters assembly, another member came up to me and asked about how to get in touch with pharmaceutical companies. It turns out that she was a nurse at one of Montreal’s major hospitals and she knew that I had worked in medical sales for many years. She was philosophy about a career change after many years working in the hospital as a nurse and wanted to find out about the likelihood of a medical sales job for nurses.

Of route, I told her that a medical sales job would be a normal career change for her and other nurses. They previously know the checkup science and structure. It’s only a matter of learning advertising skills and some pharmacology which drug companies will train on.

Since this meticulous nurse was already a Toastmaster member for two years, her communications skills were pretty good and will get even better as she advances within Toastmasters. She will likely convince drug companies that she does have to communications skills required for a medical sales job. The only thing that she would need to determine is whether she has the aptitude for the sales environment which includes being able to take rejection every day. As far as how to get in touch with the pharmaceutical companies, she and other nurses have a huge advantage over other aspiring medical sales representatives because she is already working in an environment where she has access to many possible contacts to the drug industry.