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Sidney Bateman speaks at Boise State University on Interviewing Techniques: The Blueprint

Tuesday - 3/2/2010, Hatch A, Student Union Building
The Interviewing Blueprint and The Employer’s perspective. What are employers doing to weed through large numbers of candidates? How do they use social networking sites and what can you do to ensure you are making the cut? Take the stress out of interviewing; learn how to develop a quick and easy blueprint that will provide a strategy for every interviewing situation.

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Tom Ruff Company Launches Employment Coaching and Resume Writing Division

NEW YORK CITY – July 22, 2009 – The Tom Ruff Company, one of the country’s top firms specializing in recruiting medical device and pharmaceutical sales and sales management personnel, has launched an Employment Coaching and Resume Writing division.

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BusinessWeek: When Recovery Comes, Early Job Growth Will Be in Health Care

July 20, 2009 - HEALTH CARE

If any industry represents a bright spot in an otherwise dismal economy, it’s health care. With baby boomers aging and health-care reform in the air, this industry is expected to be the largest single source of U.S. job growth through 2016, according to a new report by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers.

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The Top 3 Things you Must Know to be Competitive in Today’s Job Market
by: Mark Bartz

Article from Tom Ruff's interview with Mark Bartz at HealthcareReps.com


There is an old saying from Mark Twain: if you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you read the newspaper you are misinformed. Our problem today is we have too much information – and too little time. So where do we get fresh intelligence about the challenges of today’s job market? If you are a pharmaceutical or a medical sales professional you have unique challenges in this regard. Walk into an interview unprepared – or send out your resume without knowing the following – at your own peril.

I wanted to know the latest information candidates (pharmaceutical or medical) need to know to be competitive in their job search, so I went to recruiter and author, Tom Ruff. My question was: what are the 3 things you’d want every candidate to know in today’s job market?

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The Bob Salter Radio Program In New York - Interview with Tom Ruff: Tools & Tips for Interviewing Success in Current Market & Tom's Book. 
WXRK 92.3 FM Listen Live: www.923now.com

Topics will include:

  1. Tom’s book - (How to Break Into Pharmaceutical Sale, A Head Hunters Strategy)

  2. The current job market.
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Top Selling Pharmaceutical Drugs For 2008

US $ in Billions 2008 (Total US Prescription Market: $291.5 Billion)

1. Lipitor $7.8
2. Nexium $5.9
3. Plavix $4.9
4. Advair Diskus $4.4
5. Seroquel $3.9
6. Singulair $3.5
7. Enbrel $3.4
8. Neulasta $3.1
9. Actos $3.1
10. Epogen $3.1
11. Prevacid $3.1
12. Abilify $3.1
13. Remicade $3.1
14. Effexor XR $3.0
15. Lexapro $2.7

Source: IMS Health


The top 10 drugmakers by sales
By The Associated Press March 10, 2009

Largest drugmakers by 2008 pharmaceutical sales, according to estimates by data company IMS Health.

1. Pfizer, $43.3 billion

2. GlaxoSmithKline, $36.5 billion

3. Novartis, $36.2 billion

4. Sanofi-Aventis, $35.6 billion

5. Roche, $30.3 billion

6. Johnson & Johnson, $29.4 billion

7. Merck & Co. $26.2 billion

8. Abbott, $19.5 billion

9. Eli Lilly, $19.1 billion

10. Amgen, $15.8 billion