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The data points recruiters and hiring managers look for on a MedTech resume, by background: sales management, field sales, marketing, recent graduates, and the rest of who you are.

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Work through the section that matches your background, then the last three. Anything you can quantify, quantify.

Sales management

  • Whether or not you were recruited or promoted into the position
  • Description of the team (if multi-discipline)
  • Call points and care setting of the sales team
  • Product description
  • Cash sale / Rx / Buy & Bill: a description of the “sale”
  • P&L responsibility, with the operating budget
  • Recruitment and hiring activity
  • Retention numbers
  • Success metrics of your reports
  • Headcount of the team, broken down by position type (and how it grew during your tenure)
  • Size and scope of employer
  • Rankings (if relevant)
  • Geography covered
  • Significant initiatives unique to your time in the role (sales force planning, core competencies, IC plan creation, etc.)
  • Recognitions and awards earned
  • Revenue achieved
  • Sales numbers

Field sales

  • Recruited or promoted into the position (any details that speak to the selection process)
  • Call points, broken down by physician type and care setting
  • Institutions, by name, where you have relationships
  • Product description
  • Cash sale / Rx / Buy & Bill: a description of the “sale”
  • Quota achieved for the total bag, or for individual products
  • Stack rankings for region, district and national
  • Size and scope of the territory
  • Grew the territory from X to Y
  • Nominations and recognitions
  • Large deals closed or participated in
  • Individual contributor distinction (if pharma: in a pod vs. sole contributor)
  • Contest winnings
  • Quarterly rankings and accomplishments, where relevant
  • Survived through X downsizings

Marketing

  • Recruited or promoted into the position (any details that speak to the selection process)
  • Management responsibilities across the product life cycle
  • Win/loss analysis
  • Collateral creation
  • Marketing programs that led to sales increases (specifics)
  • $XXM product portfolio, and a description of it
  • Launch of new brands or products and your involvement
  • Branding, messaging, positioning and education program activity or accomplishments
  • Awards and recognitions
  • Care settings the products are sold into
  • Teams you worked with cross-functionally
  • Revenue generation opportunities you spearheaded
  • Participation in panel meetings, surveys or voice-of-customer forums
  • Personal interviews and involvement with KOLs
  • Best-practices implementation
  • Description of go-to-market strategies (where relevant)
  • Increase in top-line growth, as a percentage
  • Grew the product portfolio by X%
  • Represented the company at district, regional or national meetings
  • Metrics you created
  • Survived through X downsizings

Education (graduated within the last five years)

  • Scholarship recipient (full or partial)
  • College athletics
  • Awards, nominations and accomplishments for athletics, groups, clubs or programs
  • Employment during college, and whether you were self-funded
  • Size of school (Division 1, 2)
  • GPA
  • Clubs, fraternity or sorority, social committees
  • Internships, with details such as being chosen out of X students
  • Semesters abroad

Volunteer and community service

  • Name and description

Extracurricular and personal

  • A snapshot of who you are outside of work, with items that may appeal to employers: marathon runner, local community leadership, volunteer activities, coaching and so on
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