hey guys Serg here back with another video we're just gonna go ahead and jump
right into it today no intro so we got a question today from one of the
subscribers on the youtube channel and the genesis of their question was I am
interested in a CRA career but I find it very hard to find a position do you have
any tips on how to get started now of course whenever someone asked this
question we got to have a little context so I replied back hey can you add a
little context to this what kind of experience level do you have and you
know what how much experience you have in clinical research and basically
that's that or do you have any working experience prior to that so this person
later says that they have a degree in biochemistry in which they get a Jew
ated a few years ago they have 90 hours of clinical research volunteer
experience which is good and they have three courses that they've
taken bioethics GCP i CH and drug development so that's good they have
some background coursework they have some volunteer experience and they hire
a science degree graduate so what roles does this qualify this person for well
obviously entry-level roles clinical research associate is no longer an
entry-level position unless you get into a clinical research associate training
program you are not going to be able to get a clinical research become a CRA
without experience and those training programs are very competitive because
you've got people with experience wanting to get into those with a year
two years three years experience or wanting to get into those programs but
occasionally there might be an opening for somebody with no experience like
I've heard that even now you know companies will let one person in with no
experience to these programs but you've got to keep in mind
that there are people waiting to get it to BC Ras that have plenty of clinical
research experience so do not be discouraged if you are trying to get
into when these programs and you find it very difficult I mean it's probably such
a low chance that the easiest way to get into clinical research is either intern
or become a story coordinator become a clinical trial assistant be a contractor
get an investigator payments whatever it whatever way you can get in you just
want to get your foot in the door and then you can get it and get on from
there so you want to get your foot in the door
be it volunteering that's a good way to get in or a contract or an internship
whatever it is you just want to get your foot in the door and you can take it
from there so this person has a little bit of volunteer experience so on their
resume I would definitely put that on their resume and I would definitely
highlight all of the stuff you did during your volunteer experience because
that's your pertinent clinical research experience but this person really wants
to apply for entry-level positions because they don't have that much
experience 90 hours is not that much but you want to apply for all those
entry-level positions and if you haven't yet I would definitely go check out the
videos we did on you know what is a clinical trial assistant what does a
project manager assistant you know all those videos we've done or have coming
down the pipeline for like what are these certain positions so you know
which positions you can apply for also watch our indeed tutorials and some of
our other tutorials that we've done on how to get a job in clinical research
our LinkedIn SEO tips is a really good video you know we do a wide range of
video topics on this stuff and we'll do more if you guys like them so definitely
comment down below if you like - if you would like for us to do more content on
getting into clinical research but so basically that's that's my advice for
this person is to get your foot in the door it is very unlikely you're going to
become a clinical research associate like very very unlike
like 1% chance and I mean if that just does not happen to me more cuz sponsors
have pretty much said we want two years of experience for anyone to be a CRA so
they want two years experience clinical research experience and that's pretty
much what recruiters are looking for is two years experience occasionally CEOs
will try and make the argument that you know our training program is equal to
two years experience we put them through a three to six months of intense
training and they're acceptable to be a CRA so that can happen it just depends
these training programs really go through periods of ebb and flow
sometimes that all they want is study coordinators so it makes it difficult
for people like myself who work for CRO s sometimes all they want study
coordinators the other time sometimes they want people with no experience you
know this was popular maybe a couple years ago a lot more difficult now but
and sometimes you know they want people that are in the CRL that are former ce
ra like in how CRA is to do it you know they really just pick and choose so when
the time is right you got to jump on it to be a CRA cuz it's hard to get in but
people tend to stay in there for a while and retire a CRA or they stay in there
or become project managers after or whatever the career path they choose but
hope this was helpful for you guys this person submitted their question
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alright guys take care