Executive medical sales career consulting

Become the obvious choice for the medical sales role you actually want.

Traction Resume helps high-performing medical sales professionals, sales leaders, and healthcare executives turn scattered positioning into sharper visibility, stronger interviews, and better offers.

Packages currently start at $650 and range up to $6,700 for high-touch advisory, depending on scope and support level.

Claire Davis, founder of Traction Resume

Why Claire sees what most candidates miss

Recruiter insight. Hiring-team intel. Five layoffs lived from the inside.

Claire Davis has sat on every side of the table: medical sales professional, former executive recruiter, career consultant, hiring-team confidante, and 5X layoff survivor.

11+ yearscareer consulting in medical sales and commercial healthcare
Former executive recruiterinside perspective on what gets screened, sorted, and moved forward
5X layoff survivorlived experience rebuilding momentum when the market changes fast
LinkedIn Top Voicerecognized for practical career strategy and professional branding guidance
Featured in Forbes + WSJcareer guidance seen in major business publications
Real-time hiring intelfrom clients who are hiring leaders, interviewers, and decision-makers

Social proof in motion

Featured proof. Real client movement.

Media credibility, healthcare-company movement, and client words all point to the same thing: clearer positioning gets noticed.

The real problem

Your experience is strong. Your positioning may not be making that obvious fast enough.

3 signals that the market is not reading you correctly

Hiring teams, recruiters, and decision-makers don't have time to decode your career. If your resume, LinkedIn, networking message, and interview story aren't working together, the best opportunities can pass before you get traction.

This is where Traction Resume operates: not as a prettier resume shop, but as a clear career positioning system for serious medical sales moves.

  • 01Your strongest wins are buried below generic language.
  • 02Recruiters cannot immediately see your lane, level, or fit.
  • 03Your resume, LinkedIn, outreach, and interview story sound disconnected.

The difference

Stop managing the search alone. Start moving with a system.

Going it alone

  • Unclear target
  • Scattered applications
  • Resume sounds too generic
  • Recruiter silence
  • LinkedIn visibility is weak
  • Interviews stall before momentum builds

Working with Traction Resume

  • Target identification
  • Award-winning resume and LinkedIn team
  • Writing and design phase
  • Networking program and tools
  • Strategy session
  • Job search tool in one week

The client journey

From unclear target to ready-to-search in one week.

Every step is designed to make your story easier to understand, easier to trust, and easier to act on.

One-week Positioning Sprint

Five focused moves from scattered career story to recruiter-ready market presence.

  1. 01
    Day 1

    Target + story strategy

    Clarify the role lane, compensation level, and medical sales story that should lead the search.

  2. 02
    Day 2-3

    Resume + LinkedIn build

    Turn the wins, market fit, and leadership proof into recruiter-ready resume and LinkedIn positioning.

  3. 03
    Day 4

    Warm recruiter introductions

    Create the message strategy and warm-intro path that makes recruiter conversations easier to start.

  4. 04
    Day 5

    Networking + job search tools

    Deliver practical tools for outreach, target tracking, recruiter follow-up, and staying visible.

  5. 05
    Week 1

    Launch with a plan

    Leave with sharper materials, clearer visibility, and a focused system for better-fit opportunities.

Claire Davis, executive medical sales career strategist

Meet Claire Davis

Career strategy from someone who knows what recruiters screen for, what hiring teams need to see, and what layoffs feel like from the inside.

Claire Davis is the founder of Traction Resume, a former pharma recruiter, a former medical sales professional, and a 5X layoff survivor. She has reviewed 16,000+ medical and pharmaceutical sales resumes, and many Traction Resume clients are hiring leaders themselves, giving her real-time market intel on what gets noticed, trusted, and moved forward.

  • Former recruiter with direct insight into how candidates get screened, sorted, and passed along
  • 5X layoff survivor who understands the urgency, identity hit, and rebuild from the inside
  • Real-time hiring intel from clients who sit on the other side of the table
  • Specialized in medical sales, healthcare leadership, device, diagnostics, pharma, and biotech
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Ways We Can Help

CUSTOMIZED RESUMES

Starting from scratch? Haven't touched your resume for 15 years? Pivoting into Medical Sales from another industry? Claire's award-winning Traction Resume Triple-S System leverages marketing and sales principles to position you as the obvious choice to a hiring team.

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LINKEDIN PROFILES

9 out of 10 Medical Sales recruiters search LinkedIn when sourcing candidates. LinkedIn Profiles are your digital handshake and 24-7 salesperson for your career. We'll write a SEO-packed profile that attracts the people you want to look at and hire you. (Source: LinkedIn)

My Profile Needs Help

INTERVIEW PREP

The most important part of landing the job you want is often the least practiced, the interview. Book a 60-minute session to pull your story together, practice your delivery, and get comfortable telling it so well that you sail through the final.

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Why it works

Because better materials should create movement in real life.

More visibility

Clients become easier for recruiters, hiring teams, and referral partners to understand after the strategy and profile work align.

More interviews

The goal is 2-4x more interviews per month by making the target, story, and outreach work together.

Better offers

The work is built for serious medical sales professionals pursuing $150K-$500K opportunities.

The opportunity cost

The expensive part is staying under-positioned while the right roles keep moving.

Every week your story is unclear, your search relies more on timing, luck, and being discovered by the right person at the right moment.

01

Wrong-role inertia

Another month without sharper positioning, stronger recruiter conversations, or a clear path out.

02

Missed offers

The right $150K-$500K role can open while your materials still undersell the move you're built for.

03

Recruiter silence

When LinkedIn, resume, and outreach don't align, recruiters have to work too hard to understand your fit.

04

Clearer competitors

You may be more qualified, but the candidate with the cleaner story often moves first.

Testimonials + case studies

What changes when the story gets sharper.

Real career momentum starts when your value is easier to understand, trust, and act on.

Ted Echemann client portrait

Ted Echemann

She was prompt and very detailed, and I landed the consulting gig with a recently funded biotech start up.
  • Before: needed a sharper executive bio for consulting work
  • After: landed the consulting opportunity
Jackie Kurle client portrait

Jackie Kurle

Claire and her team fully delivered when it came to bringing me and my story to life.
  • Before: story and materials needed a more polished presentation
  • After: final product felt clear, professional, and complete
Matthew Zingery client portrait

Matthew Zingery

Claire sets the standard for what it means to build and own your personal brand.
  • Before: major career growth needed stronger personal brand clarity
  • After: lasting resume, LinkedIn, and strategy support

Questions before you book

Good questions are welcome here.

The goal isn't to pressure you into a call. The goal is to help you see whether this is the right kind of support for the move you're trying to make.

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How quickly will I receive my materials?

Most clients receive the full resume, LinkedIn, networking tools, strategy, and job-search materials back in one week.

Do you only work with medical sales professionals?

Medical sales, healthcare, device, diagnostics, pharma, biotech, medtech, and healthcare leadership are our core lanes. If your target sits outside those healthcare executive fields, book a discovery call with Claire directly to talk through whether the Traction system can work for you.

What if I'm not actively searching yet?

That's often the right time to build positioning. You don't need to wait until a layoff, recruiter message, or dream role forces you to rush.

Do you help with LinkedIn and networking too?

Yes. The strongest results usually happen when your resume, LinkedIn profile, outreach language, recruiter messaging, and interview story all point in the same direction.

Is this resume writing or career strategy?

Both. You get polished career materials, but the work starts with target clarity and positioning so the documents are built around the move you actually want.

What happens after I book a call?

We use the call to understand your background, target, timing, and fit. If it makes sense to work together, we will recommend the right package and next steps.