How to become a GEROPHARM team member
Many applicants believe it is more difficult to get a job in a big company. Is an interview in GEROPHARM difficult?
We select employees for our team very thoroughly. As a rule, a medical representative has a few stages of the interview: with a specialist of the HR department concerning his competences, with an immediate supervisor and answers to cases. Every specialist has its own vision of an ideal company. It is important for us that a candidate can conclude by himself during the interviews that GEROPHARM is the company where he wants to work. In our turn we predict how efficient this or that specialist be in the company.
What important thing should one know before having an interview in GEROPHARM?
The company has its values – the rues for all members of the team – Transparency, Determination, Inspiration and Care. The company takes care of its employees but it is also very demanding of business results.
Does medical education and work experience as a doctor matter when applying for a job?
Medical or pharmaceutical education is important for us but we are also ready to consider specialists without specialized education. Work experience as a doctor is not crucial but can be an additional benefit if an applicant complies with other business and professional competences.
What questions should an applicant ask the employer and what shouldn’t he?
An applicant can ask any questions concerning areas of responsibility, corporate culture, opportunities of development, company’s open projects, a system of bonuses and compensation package. We will be happy to answer all the questions if they are not a matter of confidence.
How can a candidate for the post of a medical representative be of an interest for GEROPHARM?
We think the most important qualities of a medical representative are a desire to work in a team and for a personal result, openness to new experience and tasks.
How does GEROPHARM motivate medical representatives?
Apart from material reward, transparent system of bonuses and an extended package of compensations and benefits every medical representative of the company gets opportunities of professional development within annual training programs. We regularly arrange corporate events and contests for employees and their children. GEROPHARM creates corporate environment making it possible for every employee to show himself, offer and implement improvements at work.
What modern selling methods do medical representatives use?
GEROPHARM uses the most advanced selling and promoting methods. From digital instruments (websites, social networks, Internet communities, webinars, e-mail distribution, promotion at YouTube channel) to participation in scientific expert meetings and conferences and arrangement of workshops and contests for doctors, pharmaceutics and patients. Employees of the sales department have all necessary information materials. One of the specific features of GEROPHARM is flexibility and transparency: our regional activities are approved according to the needs of a certain region, and every Medical Representative has an opportunity to take initiative aimed at increasing sales effectiveness in his city and his opinion will be taken into account.
There is a myth that the career “ceiling” for a medical representative is a post of a regional manager. Is this true? Can you give an example refuting this myth?
Career growth is definitely possible and there are some examples of it. Our company has supervisors proving it by their own experience and effective work – sales director and deputy sales director who is in charge of hospital direction of activities. They started their career from posts of medical representatives to regional supervisors and in 2016–2018 they were appointed to these important positions in GEROPHARM.
What constitutes an income of a medical representative and how much is it “transparent”?
Career growth is definitely possible and there are some examples of it. Our company has supervisors proving it by their own experience and effective work – sales director and deputy sales director who is in charge of hospital direction of activities. They started their career from posts of medical representatives to regional supervisors and in 2016–2018 they were appointed to these important positions in GEROPHARM.
What would you like to tell potential candidates? Why should they apply for a job in GEROPHARM?
GEROPHARM is a company of opportunities and attitudes, high demands to quality of work and psychologically comfortable environment making it possible to express personal potential.
