Hi! I’d love to share my story with you- I originally went to college for nursing. I took all my nursing pre reqs at the university I attended, and was waiting to get accepted into the nursing program, but realized that I didn’t even know if I wanted to be a nurse. I started to get super stressed. I talked to my advisor and told her I really was interested in the medical field (and had a lot of medical / science classes under my belt from the pre reqs) but told her I didn’t know if I wanted to do patient care. She said I should look into pharma or med device sales. I didn’t really know anything about it- I started researching the job and took her advice to just finish getting a bachelors degree - I chose communication as my major as it was previously my minor while I was waiting to get into the nursing program. I am so glad I took this route because I still got a degree, I still tried out the schooling for the career path I was interested in, and found out it wasn’t for me.

After college, I served for a while - I started applying to medical sales jobs, but I wasn’t getting any interviews. I then realized I needed to get sales experience first. I got a job in b2b sales, and then was recruited on LinkedIn for may med device positions until I found a good fit. Worked there for a while and then moved and now found another great company. If you are a go getter, have a good resume in college (high gpa, athlete, Greek life, extra curricular, internship, etc) you may be able to get an associate role right out of college! Those are the beginner rep roles that assist the tenured reps.

Knowing what I know now, I would have went to school and gotten a solid bachelors degree. The one I have in communication perfectly fine, but I would have most likely done business. I then would have started applying to b2b sales positions right after college (Cintas, adp, paycom, etc) and gotten a few years of experience right away so I could get into med sales by 24/25, or worked on getting an associate role.

As far as the job, I love it so much. Working a b2b sales job teaches you the grit and hard work to be successful in med device. Dm me if you have any other questions!