Looking for suggestions on how to break into this space.

I'm a RN who's worked in sales for 14 years within the industrial and energy spaces. Yea, I know, super random for a nurse, but I excelled greatly.

I still work weekends as a nurse and would love to combine my business acumen with my education by working for a pharma, biotech, or medical device company.

I've applied for these types of jobs and get nowhere. But when I apply to engineering organizations I get called immediately.

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Just a thought, if you really want to make it happen, reach out to all the doctors you know —they have personal relationships with all the medical device/pharma account execs.

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Kudos for the career pivot but if the market calls in engineering go there. It’s tough out there.

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