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my brother in Times Ascent

My first salary was Rs. 1200 per month in the year 1992 (View Comments)

Ramiya Bhas

Posted On Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 02:02:48 PM

Vignesh Hebbar, associate vice president, India Marlabs Software talks about his journey into the IT industry


I started my career as a medical representative
. I was 22 years old when I started my career. This job involved selling hospital products to doctors, nursing homes and chemists.


During 1998, IT was booming and all the careers were converging towards IT
. I wanted to get into the IT industry though I didn’t have the requisite qualifications and experience. One of my seniors in my erstwhile organisations prior to 1998 had taken up a career in the IT industry. With his guidance and support I moved to the current field.


My first salary was Rs. 1200 per month in the year 1992
. I worked as an interim Medical Representative representing a distributor by name KK Associates for Johnson & Johnson – Hospital Products Division.


With Graduation in Arts, I had to sell Hospital Products and it required medical knowledge
. It was quite challenging to meet doctors and talk to them one to one. With the support of my colleagues and seniors, I was trained adequately to handle this and I managed to live up to the expectation.


My first task at work was to identify the target segment in an assigned territory
and categorise them into Tier 1, 2 and 3 Customers and come up with a Sales Plan to reach out to them effectively within a given period of time.