Each 60-MINUTE VIRTUAL 1:1 consultation with Dr. Michael J. Moore—an active industry expert and high-performing Senior Medical Science Liaison (MSL)—is suited to meet your personalized needs with one central purpose: to help you break through any barrier to your first MSL role.

Each consultation is a collaboration, where you (the client) will define the rate-limiting barrier(s) in your journey to the pharma/biotech industry and Dr. Moore (your MSL mentor) will teach you the essential skills, strategies, and solutions needed to overcome them.

Below are the three primary barriers clients face on their journey to the MSL role along with the topics and types of consultation services offered by Dr. Moore:

BARRIER #1: Landing your first pharma/biotech MSL interview

• Topic | Resume/CV/Cover Letter/LinkedIn

  • Tailoring your unique soft skills, scientific/clinical acumen, professional experiences, and accomplishments to the MSL role with industry-standard terminology

  • Curating your digital brand to attract positive attention from hiring managers, recruiters, MSLs, and other relevant pharma/biotech industry professionals

  • Conducting audits to ensure you are submitting the most optimized resume/CV/cover letter possible

• Topic | Networking Strategy

  • Designing your Personalized Action Plan (PAP) to help you find trusted mentors and consistent internal referrals

  • Teaching you proven strategies/best practices for conducting informational interviews and extracting key knowledge about the MSL role/company you will need to understand to excel in your interviews

BARRIER #2: Excelling in your MSL interviews and advancing to the final interview

• Topic | Interview (Phone, Virtual, or In-Person) Preparation

  • Developing a PAP to research the company, therapeutic area (TA), product, and position

  • Highlighting best practices and effective strategies to excel in each stage of the interview process

  • Educating on interviewing pitfalls and self-defeating blindspots

  • Conducting mock interviews with detailed feedback

• Topic | Behavioral Interview Questions

  • Teaching you the key MSL-relevant themes that will be the basis of behavioral interview questions

  • Crafting impressive interview responses/stories that showcase how your past experiences align with the MSL role

  • Mastering the art of storytelling using the SAR (Situation, Action, Result) Method

  • Educating on pitfalls and self-defeating blindspots

• Topic | Questions to Ask Your Interviewer

  • Crafting the best questions that are personalized to the interviewer’s title/role

  • Mentoring you on the strategy of asking compelling questions and how to effectively phrase them

  • Educating on pitfalls and self-defeating blindspots

BARRIER #3: Acing your final presentation and negotiating your first MSL job offer

• Topic | MSL presentation

  • Developing a PAP to strategically select a topic and presentation structure that will be scientifically robust and tailored to the company’s MSL role, therapeutic area, and interview panel

  • Teaching you critical presentation strategies used by award-winning presenter Dr. Moore that will level up your scientific storytelling and engagement with your audience (virtual or in-person)

  • Educating on presentation pitfalls and self-defeating blindspots

  • Conducting mock MSL presentations

• Topic | Offer Negotiation

  • Identifying areas of opportunity for counter offers

  • Mentoring you on professional, yet assertive techniques to effectively phrase your counter-offers

  • Maximizing your potential for the best possible compensation package

Regardless of the topic, ALL consultations with Dr. Moore will broaden and deepen your foundational understanding of the pharma/biotech industry, Medical Affairs function, and MSL role, which is intimate knowledge that will be vital to landing your first offer.