hey guys ECR G here back with another video today
we're going to be talking about how I interview prep for positions in clinical
research how do I prepare for interviews to make sure that I get that job in
clinical research so the first thing I like to do is review my resume and the
reason why you want to do this is yeah obviously you should know that things
there on your resume cuz you wrote it or maybe you had us review it you came to
our resume review process and we beefed it up maybe we put some more things on
there for you we've improved your chances of getting into the clinical
research job of your dreams and maybe we even said you know if you're interested
in becoming a part of the resume review program you can email us at elite
clinical group at gmail.com you know maybe we said that but you need to
review your resume after that after we have reviewed it because you need to
make sure that you are comfortable and familiar with everything on your resume
so that when recruiters when hiring managers when you're meeting
face-to-face in the interview process when they asked you about those things
on your resume you're able to talk about them in a very fruitful and beneficial
way to your candidacy and the reason why you want to be as familiar with your
resume as possible is because it's your resume it's your background nobody
should know it better but you so that's the first thing I do is I'm gonna review
my resume make sure I know it backwards and forwards and a lot of times you know
months go by without really looking at your resume or even reading your own
resume because maybe you know through the buys the months go by you add line
by line or you tweak something here tweak something there so read through
your resume a few times make sure you're familiar with everything on there and
that's gonna really help you in the interview when they ask you specific
things you have on your resume because a lot of the times if you have
something interesting on your resume you're going to they're going to ask
about it I once had a client email me for a resume review program actually
and I freaked I forget I'm forgetting your name but you'll know it when I say
this she actually worked in the FBI she was an FBI special agent and I thought
that was completely awesome this was a while ago now this is probably one of my
first few clients one of my first few clients
she was an FBI special agent so I'm sure you can imagine you don't see with that
on people's resumes that often so they're probably going to ask you about
that and I thought that was great and that was one of those things that you
know she did that early on in her career but it's something that we definitely
wanted to leave on there because that has shock value that has something where
like someone's gonna read and down your resume scanning they see FBI special
agent now they're curious so that's awesome if you got something like that
make sure you have that on your resume and make sure that you're familiar with
everything on your resume so that's the first thing I'm gonna do review my
resume the second thing I'm going to do is practice I'm going to practice
interviewing so whether it's with a friend whether it's with yourself in the
mirror or whether it's with us we actually have an interview prep program
that you can be a part of we offer that as a service so if you want to interview
prep with me you can email us once again at Ali clinical group at gmail.com where
we will ask you some clinical research questions make sure you're familiar with
those that are pertinent to your job so if your eyes if you're applying for
study coordinator positions we're gonna ask you questions that study
coordinators should know we're if you're applying for clinical trial assistant
positions we're gonna ask you questions that clinical trial assistants should
know and that they might ask you in the interview so you can interview prep with
us we got 30 minutes up to an hour long sessions maybe even longer if you
require that but you can email us about that we can give us a call at our number
nine one oh five oh two three nine three two so we've got that going too but this
is something that I was doing in the early days with myself in the mirror or
maybe just walking around you've got some free time what you can do is you
know think about some questions write down maybe ten
questions that they might ask you and be like okay how do you respond in this
situation and then you say okay this is how I respond to that to to yourself and
then you always want to bring up an example you always want to have some
examples ready so what I do beforehand is I prepare three or four very
applicable responses or examples that can kind of fit with any kind of
question they ask so maybe we'll do a different video on some examples but you
want to pick broad juicy examples that could you could use like you know name
some time name the time you experienced some adversity if they ask you that
question you would use this example or they said name a time you had a great
success well you could probably fit that example in there too because if you
experienced an adversity and went through it and were successful well you
also had success at the end of that or you know say maybe maybe Nate maybe they
asked a question maybe name a time where you felt down and felt like you wouldn't
be able to succeed we could use that example also so what you want to do is
pick just a few broad general very powerful stories or examples of these
things that you can incorporate and probably you could use them when they
ask multiple different questions so that's how people do that and are able
to respond to really nail the interview so that's that's my second tip I would
do is first make sure you review your resume second practice with yourself or
you can practice with a friend or you can practice with us I'm partial to us
but do what you can third thing I like to do when I am prepping for an
interview is actually not as much related to the interview but more my
mindset I like to envision / meditate / repeat to myself visions of me hearing
the job offered that they're gonna present to me visions of them calling me
in giving me a job offer with with the salary with the benefits that I'm aiming
to get and what this is going to do is give you the confidence that you need to
go to the interview like hey I got this or hey
I earn this or hey this is this is mine already you don't want to go in there
with overconfidence but I feel like envisioning really kind of brings it
full circle and allows you to actually vision yourself getting the position and
getting the call that you want from that company or CRO or a pharma company or
site wherever you're applying so just to summarize that again first thing I
always do is review my resume second thing I do is practice with the friend
or practice with ally clinical research or practice with myself then the third
thing I like to do is just envision myself and getting that job getting that
call all the good things that happen after you put in the hard work so those
are my three tips for how I like to interview prep all very important thank
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