rewards and challenges of a BIOTECH MSL - by Jane Chin, Ph.D.

1. You can gain visibility by becoming a big fish at a small organization.
2. Because you work at a small organization, you can develop multifunctional skills.
3. As you develop multifunctional skills you get to wear many hats.
4. By wearing many hats, you can expect to travel >80% for corporate meetings as well meeting your thought leaders.
5. Since you learn the ins and outs of how to build an organization from the ground up, you get to flex your entrepreneurial muscles.
6. Your developed entrepreneurial muscles will help you prioritize your ridiculously large geography.
7. Your ridiculously large geography will enable you to interact with the best and brightest Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in a therapeutic area.
8. Increasing the quality of thought leader capital in a therapeutic area will make you immensely attractive to other employers looking for MSLs.
9. Being an attractive MSL candidate means you are inundated with job options....
10. ... But maybe you're now ready to take your entrepreneurial skills to the next level and work for yourself!

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