Peggy McKee
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Job Search, Interview, and Career Coaching Expert
Peggy McKee Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- job search, job interviews, career coaching, medical sales recruiting
- Career Focus
- Career Coach and Sales Recruiter
- Affiliation
- Career Confidential, PHC Consulting
Peggy McKee is the CEO of Career Confidential, a rapidly growing job search training company based in Texas that specializes in providing job seekers with powerful and customizable tools and techniques to get the jobs they want fast.
Since 2009, Career Confidential has been helping job seekers all over the world get hired. After assisting over 15,000 people get jobs, Career Confidential has set a goal to get at least 15,000 more people into successful careers in the next year. Career Confidential is committed to getting the unemployed back to work.
A passionate and dedicated advocate for job seekers, Peggy teaches people how to become employed very quickly through an aggressive approach and targeted tools and training in everything from resumes to social media presence to contacting hiring managers to interview strategy to closing for the offer and negotiating salary. Her background in sales, management, recruiting and career coaching combine to make her a unique and valuable resource. She maintains a blog on Career Confidential as well as a Career Confidential YouTube Channel. In her spare time, Peggy likes to ride horses and hang out with her husband and two children.
Peggy has been named #1 on the list of the Top 25 Most Influential Online Recruiters by HR Examiner, and has been quoted in articles from CNN, CAP TODAY, Yahoo!HotJobs, and the Denver Examiner about being successful in the job hunt.
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***5 Phone Interview Questions You Will Be Asked (And Tips on How to Answer Them)
How to answer common phone interview questions Hiring managers don't necessarily want to spend a lot of time, money and energy interviewing every potential candidate face-to-face. So most of them fall back on the practical: phone interviews. Do well with the phone interview, and the hiring manager will probably decide you're worth that extra effort of an in-person meeting. Do a poor job, and you're out.
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How to Answer Interview Questions - Q25
How much did / do you make? Here’s a question guaranteed to make you uncomfortable in the job interview process. It’s one of the big hot-potato questions. No one wants to say a number first. But you don’t have to feel pressured or stressed. There are some great ways to handle this question.
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Sales Managers: Don’t Gamble With Your Medical Sales Hires!
Sometimes, hiring medical sales reps feels like a roll of the dice. You hope you get a winner, but you’re never sure you will. In an article called “Stop Hiring Poor-Performing Salespeople,” Brian Jeffrey wrote about 3 specific pitfalls of hiring sales reps you should look out for, and that one way to avoid them and improve your odds of hiring a winner is to use a sales assessment tool. I think assessment tools are a great idea.
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Questions to Ask on an Interview That Help You Stand Out
You might be thinking: “I have to ask questions? I thought I was supposed to ANSWER questions at an interview.” You do have to ask questions if you want the job. But which questions? While there are many questions you want to ask, there are two questions you must ask at every interview, every single time:
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How Do Med Techs or Other Lab Employees Transition to Medical Sales Jobs?
Actually, the first question should be: CAN med techs or other laboratory people transition from a technical role into a sales role? The answer is: it depends. The odds are low, but for those who can beat the odds, they'll likely be fantastic sales reps. It tends to be a love it/hate it proposition. Why is that? It's because the laboratory is a black-or-white world. There are absolutes and definites. In the sales world, there are many more variables, many more maybes, and much more fluidity inherently involved in dealing with people.
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Use Assessment Tools to Help you Hire the Right Sales Reps
Part of every sales manager's job is to add to the team. Hire new talent. You think you know what you're looking for: that "spark," that intangible "it" factor, that "something about this candidate" that tells your intuition that this is the one. You look at resumes and previous sales figures (if they have them), but you also look for personality, drive, determination, and people skills. Not an exact science, is it? There's lots of room for error. So how do you combat that uncertainty?
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Networking Tips: 4 Easy Ways to Build a Network You Can Count On
I can't emphasize enough how important it is for everyone to have a network and keep in contact with the people in it, but many people don't know how to do this well. Networks aren't something that you build by handing out business cards to everyone you meet. Networks are relationships. Not deep, BFF (best friends forever) relationships that are going to take all your time, but at least something that will ensure they remember who you are when you call.
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5 Reasons to Use LinkedIn–Even If You’re Already Employed
Many people think that LinkedIn, a professional networking site, is only for those who are searching for jobs. So if you are someone who already has a job, there’s no use in posting resumes and recommendations, right? Wrong. It’s a misconception that LinkedIn is only for those who are actively looking for employment. The true purpose of this site is not just to function as a resume depository–it is, above all else, a place for people to network. Networking is a valuable tool, regardless of employment. LinkedIn is not even just a networking tool…it’s a resource center.
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How to Answer Interview Questions – Q80
What will you do if you don’t get this position? This question is mostly likely to be asked when you’re interviewing for an internal promotion. You’re probably going up against other candidates in the company, and maybe even some external candidates, too. They’re worried about how you’ll take it if you don’t get the job, and they want to know if you’re more interested in the good of the company or just in your own career advancement.
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Fastest Way to Find a Job - Tip 21 Career Coaching
Career Coaching If you’re in the job search, you have certainly heard advice about job boards, networking, or even temporary work. But have you ever considered a career coach as a path to a new job? When I say “Career Coach,” I do not mean the kind of life coach who helps you decide what you should do with your life. Don’t get me wrong, they have their place, but what I’m talking about is a coach who helps you with your career: finding and getting a job that will help you further your career goals.
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How to Answer Interview Questions - Q31
If you could be any animal which one would you be and why? Some hiring managers really like these weird interview questions. Some think it’s going to reveal more about your character, and others just want to know what you really act like when you’re under stress or just thrown a curve ball. Questions like these do reveal your thought process and offer you a chance to show off your creativity and inventiveness.
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How to Answer Interview Questions - Q6
Describe your work style. Do you know what your work style is? This is a popular interview question, but a lot of people go wrong in their answers because they don’t understand what that employer really wants to know. They’re not interested in your personality or your likes and dislikes with this question. They’re not interested in your work wardrobe, either.) They want to know how you work. So some people really shoot themselves in the foot with the ‘work style’ question because they say things like, “I’m really laid back.” First, that’s a personality trait.
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Job Search & Career Training Peggy McKee of Career Confidential
Provides help on how to get the job you want using effective interview techniques and tools like the 30-60-90-day plan, brag books, online social media, and more, as well as interviewing tips and advice.
June 24, 2015
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PHC Consulting
A recruiting site for medical sales, marketing,and management specializing in laboratory sales, biotechnology sales, clinical diagnostics sales, medical device sales, imaging sales, and pharmaceutical sales.
May 6, 2009
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PHC Consulting Blog
Tips and advice for job searches, resumes, interviewing, networking, recruiting, sales techniques and management for the medical sales representative and the hiring manager.
May 6, 2009
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www.careerconfidential.com
http://www.careerconfidential.com
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Peggy McKee
PHC Consulting
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30/60/90-Day Sales Plan with Audio Coaching
Don't go to another interview without getting the offer!
The 30/60/90-Day Plan turns the interview from an interrogation to a conversation, and helps the hiring manager see you in the job. That’s what gets you the offer!
This product includes:
• A fill-in-the-blank 30/60/90-day plan template
• 3 sample plans
• Over 30 minutes of audio coaching from the sales recruiter
The audio coaching will give you tips for how to present the plan effectively, teach you how using the 80/20 Rule can show the manager you have a strategy for success, and reveal how to use your plan AFTER the interview to cement your job offer.
http://30-60-90-day-sales-plan.com/30-60-90-day-sales-plan-with-audio.htm
The How to Get Into Medical Sales Kit
Helping people land fantastic jobs in medical sales (even people with no experience at all) is packed into this one comprehensive kit.
The kit includes:
• Over 1.5 hours of Peggy’s audio coaching, tips, and techniques
• A power resume template with a killer cover letter
• A “secret weapon” technology sheet
• The key to turning your thank you note into another selling tool
• How to create an effective 30/60/90-day plan that will blow the socks off any hiring manager
Medical sales is a hard career area to break into—but this kit is guaranteed to give you an unfair advantage over all the other candidates.
http://how-to-get-into-medical-sales.com/how-to-get-into-medical-sales-system.htm
LinkedIn Ninja Tricks - Bypass HR and Get the Job
Amateurs post resumes on online job boards...serious professionals get interviews and offers by working LinkedIn. Don’t waste any more time sending resumes to HR departments. Learn the secrets to contacting hiring managers directly with these LinkedIn Ninja Tricks.
In a 53-minute video, you’ll learn Peggy’s systematic contact methods that will show you exactly what to say (and what NOT to say) that will get you responses you’ve only dreamed of. These expert techniques will get you more activity than you’ve ever had in your job search.
http://linkedin-for-jobseekers.com/linkedin-ninja-tricks1.htm