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Originally Posted by Unregistered  Hi I am a landed immigrant in Canada and a veterinary doctor from India. I have been in marketing and sales for over eight years almost exclusively in the veterinary field, at the level of a Product Manager.
I am currently working with a small pharamcy based in toronto and doing ok, detailing vets, dentists and naturopaths. However my job is currently part time and am working in retail on the weekends.
I was ref to ERAC through a current employee and thought it was a great opportunity to step up in the corporate ladder and get some structured training.
But I have worked hard to get myself where I am in vet sales in this pharmacy and was in two minds about giving all that up.
I was told I will be getting $33 000 CAD to start witth and $35 000 if i clear exams in 6 mos. I was informed of the long hours and hard work (not the cleaning cars in suits).
I would highly appreciate a feedback as to whether I should quit my part time career in my field in pharma sales and move to ERAC or stick it out here.
thanks..my second phone interaction is on Monday..I need some feedback pretty fast :) |
You will, most positively, regret leaving to go to ERAC. In addition, in case you didn't know, it is fairly white bread company. At the end of the day your career, as most peoples, will hit a wall. You are obviously well educated and deserve a career closer to your school. You deserve more than ERAC. Pharma sales will be much more lucrative and rewarding overall.
If you can handle it, keep doing what you are doing and look to expand on the pharma sales career when you have an opportunity. Why you would want to exchange one retail career for another I have no idea. That is what ERAC is. It is a retail career. "Would you like damage waiver with that?"
There is a posting about top 50 Employers in Canada. Take a look at it and contact the Pharma sectored employers. You will probably notice that while McDonalds, Walmart, etc are on there, there is no ERAC. To give you an idea of the climate, they could not get enough employees to even respond to the survey. On top of that, the ones who did respond, did have anything nice to say.
Bottom line, trust me and stay away from ERAC.