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The resume will present and introduce your most important experiences, skills, education, and training to prospective pharmaceutical companies. Your resume will meet staffing and human resource personnel before you can personally meet them during an interview. It is the first impression that a pharmaceutical employer gets of you. Your resume serves as a spokesperson, an advocate, and your personal advertisement. It will be, in most cases, your ticket to a pharmaceutical sales interview.  \nThe goal will be to write a resume that strategically presents your major selling points to prospective pharmaceutical companies and networking contacts. Many pharmaceutical sales applicants simply throw down their information on a piece of paper with no rhyme or reason. A strong resume will identify your major selling points which can be intentionally accentuated using a formatted style. It is important to understand the common resume components and formatting styles for a successful resume to be written.  \nThe nature of a resume is very subjective with thousands of human resource and staffing professionals in the pharmaceutical industry. No two staffing professionals perceive resumes exactly the same way. Therefore, a fundamental point to remember is that thereis no absolute right or wrong way when it comes to writing the resume. Human resource professionals naturally have biases toward certain formats and styles. As an applicant, you need to decide which style is ultimately best for you with consideration of your experiences and education.  \nBASIC TIPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL RESUME  \nAs you start to identify what you want to include on your resume, keep the following tips in mind. First, your resume should look good at first glance. Your pharmaceutical resume will make your first impression to the pharmaceutical company. What the pharmaceutical recruiters view on your resume is how they will decide whether you are right for this position. If your resume is not electronically friendly then they will dismiss you quickly. If your resume was printed on a cheap paper, you are considered cheap in the staffing professionals mind. If your resume is not detailed, then you are not detailoriented. If your resume is overloaded and long, then the recruiter will assume you are long-winded and unorganized. Print your resume on good, cotton-bond paper while also keeping it electronic and database friendly. Balance your resume by having enough space and not too much text. Always use a good, quality laser printer when printing the resumes.  \nYour most important experiences and skills must be clearly listed on your resume for pharmaceutical employers to see. Use highlighting, spacing, indentation, and bulleted statements to make it easy for the recruiters to find the information that is important to them. If a pharmaceutical staffer has to look too long and too hard for information, they will stop looking. Emphasize your important skill sets as it relates to pharmaceutical sales and present them in a way that stands out.  \nFinally, pay close attention accuracy and attention to detail. Automated spell checking does not always find everything. One mistake can take you out of the running for a particular job or company. At most pharmaceutical companies, if you misspell or misuse a word, you can kiss your chances goodbye. Spelling errors indicate that you do not pay attention to detail and you are not reliable.  \nTHE COMPONENTS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL RESUME  \nRemember, there are no absolute rights or wrongs to writing a pharmaceutical sales resume. Some items are optional and whether to include them depends on you situation and the level of the sales position you are pursuing. However, there are many components of a resume that are recommended. 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