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<p>[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 4663675"]The person above is completely right. I am in wound care sales for a device manufacturer but was in home health sales for nearly 2 years coming out of college. Couldn't get any device companies to hire me b/c I was a recent college grad with no experience and all these companeies wanted like 2-5 yrs of sales experience so home health was the closest thing I could get to "medical" sales exp. at the time being.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can definitely spin that home health sales can be as tough as some other actual tangible product sales just b/c you are basically offering a commodity in the eyes of the person sending the referral your way, so you can prove that you can build quick relationships.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I would say home health sales is not a strong long term career choice and the environment is always changing and there's so much turnover. Plus it gets tired kissing ass and just making your rounds to your docs and discharge planners. At an agency I worked for in Florida, we had to give out "items of no value" to accounts each week, I think something around 15-20 a week, so basically you try to be a fake friend as if you care about their lives and say, print something off the internet with vacation spot ideas if the receptionist mentioned "yeah me and my husband aren't sure where to go to vacation over the summer." That would be an item of no value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 4663675"]The person above is completely right. I am in wound care sales for a device manufacturer but was in home health sales for nearly 2 years coming out of college. Couldn't get any device companies to hire me b/c I was a recent college grad with no experience and all these companeies wanted like 2-5 yrs of sales experience so home health was the closest thing I could get to "medical" sales exp. at the time being. You can definitely spin that home health sales can be as tough as some other actual tangible product sales just b/c you are basically offering a commodity in the eyes of the person sending the referral your way, so you can prove that you can build quick relationships. But I would say home health sales is not a strong long term career choice and the environment is always changing and there's so much turnover. Plus it gets tired kissing ass and just making your rounds to your docs and discharge planners. At an agency I worked for in Florida, we had to give out "items of no value" to accounts each week, I think something around 15-20 a week, so basically you try to be a fake friend as if you care about their lives and say, print something off the internet with vacation spot ideas if the receptionist mentioned "yeah me and my husband aren't sure where to go to vacation over the summer." That would be an item of no value.[/QUOTE]
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