In this tough job market, job seekers are pulling out all of the stops in their attempts to secure a job.  The medical sales industry, once thought to be immune from an economic downturn, is seeing the loss of thousands of health care sales jobs, causing unemployed sales reps to seek-out new methods to compete for those few available positions.

One method being hyped is “email blasting”.  Job seekers pay a fee to have their resume sent via email to hundreds, or even thousands of recruiters and potential employers.  Sounds like a winner, right?  To the contrary, this method is actually a waste of time and money.

Why?  First, recruiters and companies receive literally hundreds (or even thousands) of new candidate resumes daily.  They have become so inundated with emailed resumes filling their in-boxes each morning that most merely delete those emails without ever reading them.  Email blasting is a veritable “black hole”!

Secondly, recruiters spend their time attempting to find a perfect match candidate for a specific job profile, in a specific location.  They do not have the time to browse through hundreds of unsolicited resumes with the slim chance that one of them may be a match.  Instead, they post their job specifications on reputable job boards, and wait for qualified candidates to respond to that posting with their resume.

So, save your money spent on email blasting, and spend it registering for one of the “pay-to-play” medical sales job boards, like www.gorillamed.com.  You will be investing wisely in your job search efforts.

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