I'd like your help. I have been wearing suits to KOL visits for the past few months because that is what the company said was the dress code. I have always felt like I am fighting the sales rep image dressed in a suit. Do you really wear suits or are sport coats and ties the norm?
Tanx
SP
I personally don't feel that anyone cares how you dress, as long as it isn't tacky. Business casual seems fine, and who wants to wear a suit when it's freakin hot outside? What customers DO care about is how you present medical information, not whether it's in business casual or a suit.
Disagree........dress codes call for dress one level above how your customer is dressed. We need to be "experts" yes in our discussions but also in our apprearance.
Maybe if you are living in 1965 you would dress one level above the customer, but that is no longer the case. And to which dress code are you referring? Those policies are specific to each employer and there is no universal dress code in any industry.
Yes we do need to be experts in our discussions, but dressing should be appropriate to the situation. If I showed up at a managed care client wearing an expensive suit, they believe we are charging too much for the medication. If I dress down, the opposite might be inferred.
This is not IBM circa 1962 with the white-shirt only crowd. Get over it.
I usually wear "foam domes" (hard hats equipped with beer can holders & 2 flexible straws) and NO FAT CHICKS t-shirts. No one has complained so far.
Funny.......sounds like you were in Waterboy.
Dress codes for business are well established. You dress how you want--but I am wearing suits.
If you show up in a hospital or clinic in a suit and tie everyone automatically assumes you are a rep, the doctor, the patients and the staff. I have had everyone from the parking lot attendant to the receptionist shaking me down for "freebies" back in my early days when I wore a suit. Now, I try to mimic what the physician wears, if he's in gaberdines and a polo shirt, I'll be in serious business casual. If he's in full "southern drag" (I cover the deep south and this means Dockers, white shirt starched stiff and bow tie, suspenders, etc) I might wear a sports coat and a nice knit shirt, but never a suit.
DEPENDS on your specialty. I am oncology and I ALWAYS wear a suit. Medical oncologists (She/he) average $400K -800K a year. (Even after Medicare Modernaization Act.) So YES I will be in a suit. You should ALWAYS 'up' dress your customer by one dress level. If you expect her/him to business casual--wear business attire. If business attire=business attire. I will AWLAYS be in a suit.
You make over $100 (w/w/o benefits). Act like it!! All D's or no D's get over $100K with benefits. We should ALL dress like it.
Signed--Proud MSL
I'd like your help. I have been wearing suits to KOL visits for the past few months because that is what the company said was the dress code. I have always felt like I am fighting the sales rep image dressed in a suit. Do you really wear suits or are sport coats and ties the norm?
Tanx
SP
