
Building Your Foundation
Resume Checklist
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.
Resume Checklist
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.
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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Self-Assessment Questions
Eleven questions to sit with before you start a search. Where you are, what you want more of, and whether the current trajectory is a choice.

Sample Resume
A sample MedTech sales leadership resume, showing how to present each role with its rankings, percent to plan and promotions.

Motivational Books and Podcasts
The FloodGate team’s reading and listening list for staying positive, motivated and inspired during a job search.
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