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“When I first started out, I entered the field of medical sales. I loved the medical field but didn’t
want to be a doctor. I enjoy meeting new people and I loved the challenge of persuading someone to
buy my product.

When I began recruiting for the medical field, I was looking to reduce my travel because I had a
young son. I had been a high-level sales manager in the medical arena and knew how difficult it could
be to identify and evaluate good candidates to hire. I knew that I could do that very well because of
my particular experience. This way, I kept my hand in the field, I still got to speak with people all
over the world, I still got to persuade and influence, but this time it was my clients and candidates.

I started my own company and became a career coach, because I knew that I had a passion for
helping others and wanted to expand it outside of just the medical sales arena. I show job seekers
how to get hired. Now I get to persuade and influence on a global scale through helping tens of
thousands of job seekers in over 90 countries. I get a lot of satisfaction out of knowing I’ve helped
them get hired and receiving their phone calls and emails that thank me for my help.”

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Try to show that you chose this career on purpose instead of a random accident—but if you did
just happen to stumble into this line of work at least talk about what a happy accident it was and how
you’ve made deliberate steps to grow and learn more since then.