Pharmaceutical Sales Recruiter reveals his Top Pharmaceutical Sales Career Boards...
By Pat Riley

Pharmaceutical Sales Recruiter reveals his Top Pharmaceutical Sales Career Boards...
(this is where he goes to look for candidates)

TOP Pharmaceutical Sales Career Job Boards

These are the sites that I use in my pharmaceutical recruiting and the data was provided by the participating job boards.

Evaluation Criteria:

I used an extremely complex algorithm written by 7 PhD's that required 14 super computers and three weeks of processing time to compute the data...(ha-ha-ha). Not really!

Seriously, these are the sites that I patrol and use in my recruiting. Granted, some of these sites you already know about, but some of these are "niche-career portals" targeted at pharmaceutical/biotech positions. I call them hidden "nuggets of gold".

The key criteria used to determine the top sites are as follows:

• The number of OPEN pharmaceutical sales positions
• Content specific to advancing yourself in the interview process
• Message boards for knowledge sharing
• Tenure and stability (how long they have been in the business)

http://www.Monster.com
Number of Open Positions: 2458
Content: Excellent
Message Boards: Yes
Year started: 1994
Marketing Info: Monster is the leading global online network for careers, connecting companies with the most qualified career-minded individuals. Monster is committed to leading the market by offering innovative technology and superior services, including the industry's most advanced privacy technology, which gives consumers and businesses more control over the recruiting process.

COMMENTS: Top Pharmaceutical Sales Job Site. The shear number of job openings is a true benefit for any job seeker.

http://www.medzilla.com
Number of Open Positions: 1328
Content: Excellent
Message Boards: Yes
Year started: 1994
Marketing Info MedZilla is the original web site to serve career and hiring needs for professionals and employers in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medicine, science and healthcare. MedZilla databases contain over 9,000 open positions and 10,000 resumes from candidates actively seeking new positions. These resources have been characterized as the largest, most comprehensive databases of their kind on the web in the industries served.

COMMENTS: OUTSTANDING site. Definitely geared for the pharmaceutical sales job hunter.

http://www.HOTJOBS.com
Number of Open Positions: 958
Content: Excellent
Message Boards: Yes
Year started: 1997
Marketing Info: HotJobs.com, a subsidiary of Yahoo!, is a leading recruiting solutions and software company. The company's flagship job site, HotJobs.com (http://www.hotjobs.com), is one of the leading career domains, and was voted the "Best General Purpose Job Board for Job Seekers" in a survey of job seekers conducted by WEDDLE's. In addition to its popular consumer job board, HotJobs provides employers with progressive recruiting solutions such as its Softshoe hiring management software, Agency Desktop and Diversity Marketing Solutions. The company recently ranked #14 in Bloomberg Personal Finance Magazine's coveted "Tech 100" list.

COMMENTS: Excellent Site. Definitely use this site in your job hunt.

http://www.hirehealth.com
Number of Open Positions: 370
Content: Good
Message Boards: No
Year started: 1997
Marketing Info: Hirehealth.com is the most comprehensive online employment resource in the Bio-Pharmaceutical industry. Launched in 1997 as a companion to our live Hirehealth Career Receptions, Hirehealth.com quickly established itself as a national presence.

COMMENTS: Very strong site, I would definitely add this site to your HOT list of career sites.

http://www.careerbuilder.com
Number of Open Positions: 774
Content: OK
Message Boards: No
Year started: 1996
Marketing Info: CareerBuilder is the fastest-growing recruitment and career-advancement source for employers, recruiters and job seekers. With the acquisitions of Headhunter in 2001 and CareerPath in 2000, CareerBuilder(r) quickly advances toward the No. 1 position in online recruitment.

COMMENTS: Ranks very high in the open number of positions, but lacks FREE interview specific information. Excellent source of third party career services.

http://www.bioview.com
Number of Open Positions: 54
Content: Excellent
Message Boards: No
Year started: 1997
Marketing Info: BioView.com is one of the top websites for biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and general science jobs. Our goal is to make both job hunting and recruitment in the biopharm industry fast, easy, efficient and economical.

COMMENTS: Excellent Bio/pharma informational site, but a little weak on the number of pharmaceutical sales job openings. I still would recommend that you spend some time on this site.

http://www.go2pharmsales.com
Number of Open Positions: 65
Content: Good
Message Boards: No
Year started: 2001
Marketing Info: Go2PharmSales.com is THE site for pharmaceutical sales careers! The unique registration and search tools used on this site provide extremely accurate results. Go2PharmSales has proven to be a successful niche-recruiting tool attracting top sales talent in the pharmaceutical industry.

COMMENTS: Good start up career site with a STRONG focus on pharmaceutical sales jobs and candidates. Go online and register, since this is a new site, your resume will stand out.

http://www.latpro.com
Number of Open Positions: 11
Content: Excellent
Message Boards: No
Year started: 1997
Marketing Info: the essential job board for Hispanic professionals

COMMENTS: Good niche site for Latin Americans. Excellent Interviewing Articles.

About the Interviewee
Pat Riley is the president of 10 Abbott Street L.L.C., an executive search firm specializing in pharmaceutical and medical sales and the author of "Secrets of Breaking Into Pharmaceutical Sales", and "57 Most Frequently Asked Pharmaceutical Sales Interview Questions ...and Answers that Win the Job".

Both E-Books are available at by Clicking Here