If you’re an aspiring MSL, you’re probably thinking a lot about how to master the MSL interview. 🎤 The biggest part of the interview is the presentation you’ll give during the final interview. 📊 One way to really shine on this very important element of the evaluation process is to have a back pocket presentation. 📂 A back pocket presentation? What’s that? 🤔 Well, that’s the topic of this Aspiring MSL Insight.

Michael Pietrack heads up the Medical Affairs recruiting at Kaye/Bassman International and hosts the Pharmaverse Podcast. 🎙️ And the majority of the MSLs we know have a back pocket presentation - a presentation they know by heart. It’s like they can pull it right out of their back pocket and give it to anyone, anywhere. Do you have one of those? 🤓

Why is it important to have a back pocket presentation?

The interview process doesn’t stop for you to develop a presentation and make slides, so having a back pocket presentation will ensure you keep pace with other candidates. ⏱️

Later in your career, you’re going to be busy doing your job, and you just can’t stop your day job to create a presentation, so having a back pocket presentation will help you manage performing at your job while considering new opportunities. 📈

A back pocket presentation allows you to know the data cold, and because you know the topic so well and have researched it so heavily, you’ll be able to