hey guys Serg here today we're gonna talk about in review the final internal
interview I had not too long ago so that's coming up stay tuned hey guys
ECR G here today we're gonna be talking about the final interview I had for the
in-house CRA position not too long ago and so this video is gonna be about what
it's like to interview for an internal interview made to another video on that
soon haven't decided yet but obviously this
channel is geared more towards clinical research that's the lens at which we
look through everything because that's the lens that I am in that's the field
that I am in so obviously we're gonna look through the working world through
that view but a lot of the things I say here are gonna apply to every other
position when you're applying internally for another position and we try our best
to kind of I guess you could say apply it to other positions as well well
that's what we do so thank you guys for listening and thank you guys for
following along so let's go ahead and get into it what was it like for my
first ever internal interview for a position well it was very nerve-wracking
because you don't know what you're gonna get with any interview you don't know if
you're gonna get somebody who's very talkative maybe kind of goes off the
cuff a little bit a lot more playful or you don't know if you're gonna get
somebody who's very rigid has a sheet of questions in front of them is going to
ask those questions and not really deviate too much and you don't and
interviewing so much of the interview is dependent on who you interview with
because you could really vibe with that person and build a common bond
immediately or it could just be a slow bad interview they're not really rockin
with you and that's that I mean I'm sure we've all had our share of both and that
plays a huge part whether you're gonna get the job or not
sometimes if the cars just aren't in your favor
but you got to make the best of them do the best you can and that's why
interviewing sometimes as a numbers game eventually you're gonna get somebody
that's really personable and you really vibe with and they're eventually gonna
give you the job so I applied for the in-house CRA
position and actually if you remember many many months ago probably around the
first few weeks of this channel being when I started uploading these videos I
talked about meeting a meeting with a lady for an informal informational
interview about a position well here it is many months later the position
finally had an opening and I was able to apply for it and have this internal
interview so that's why we always stress the importance of networking because we
kept that relationship open all the way from those many months ago until now
there has not been a single position open until now even though I was told
that there would have been so stay patient guys stay hungry and eventually
your time will come for you to level up and go ahead and attack the position
whenever it's open so basically they said I had an interview I had to submit
a questionnaire they sent out a questionnaire beforehand about a few
days beforehand telling me to ask me some questions like why I wanted to
apply for the role my experience level you know detailing some of the studies
that I've been on in the past and a short questionnaire two pages long not
really too in-depth so I had a few people read it other people in clinical
operations and submitted it back to the recruiter then a few days later the
recruiter let me know when the interview was gonna be you know this happened
pretty quickly all within a matter of a few days and so then I went in and
interviewed for that position so they obviously probably had read my file that
I had sent in and I don't know what other background information they've
done obviously when you do an internal interview they have
your contacts the people that know you they have your manager and they have
they should have a lot more information about you then if you're applying
externally so that can both work to your advantage and disadvantage but we're not
going to talk too much about that here so in the internal interview they asked
questions that were not extremely detailed they didn't get into the nitty
gritty clinical research details they didn't they didn't asked about okay so
if you're doing file reviews and the date is cut off what do you do you know
they didn't ask specific things like that getting into the nitty-gritty of
the actual job they asked more behavioral like okay so
what happens when you when you're stressed out what happens when you know
something doesn't go your way what happens when you know a site isn't
calling you back they ask questions so like that just to see how you would
react in certain situations to see if you were a good fit for the job and so I
was prepared for those questions I mean I was hopefully as prepared as I could
have been for all the questions they would have asked but you know I just
pretty much drew on the experience I had in my previous role to answer those
questions and they knew they of course know a little bit about your previous
role because the in-house CRA and my previous role in project management work
together in a little bit and there's a lot of overlap between those two roles
for example in house er raised do do a good amount of TMF and so in my previous
role I did TMF as well so that was a good talking point to just hammer home
that I was very experienced in TMF TMF is huge in clinical research because it
is one of the most important deliverables to deliver to the sponsor
so pretty much if you talk about TMF and how good you are with TMS their ears are
gonna perk up because the TMF is always in trouble they always need somebody to
review the TMS and they always the TMF is never perfect always the TMF is never
perfect so always talk about TMF in your clinical research interviews
bonus tip there so answer those questions the interview lasted about an
hour there were two individuals in there one was the director of the clinical
unit I was applying for and the other one was just a CTL clinical trial lead
and they both went back and forth and asked me various questions about my
resume they wanted to make sure that my resume added up
they weren't they asked me a question that you know cuz I actually had
forgotten to review my resume beforehand but you should you really shouldn't have
to review your resume because it's your resume so you should know everything on
there without a doubt and so she asked me and so sometimes when you do your
resume you put things on there in the language of the job you're applying for
so when she read it back when she asked me this question about something I was
on my resume it didn't register with me at first what
she was asking about and this was a job that I had had many years ago this was a
research assistant job that they asked about surprisingly just to make sure
that what I was saying was true so they asked me a question about it saying in
that language and at first I didn't register so you know actually expounded
on a little bit more I was like oh yeah I know what you're talking about and I
was able to answer the question so that's another tip review review your
resume for sure and that's that's a no-brainer right there I didn't do it
but like I said if you don't do it your resume is your resume so you should be
able to speak on that at any given time so that was really good and you know the
interview lasted about an hour they asked their questions and then at the
end I was able to ask my questions and I think it went pretty well so that's a
short overview of the internal you know applying internally oh yeah they said
they would get back they'd get back to me within a week so they did interview
other candidates I'm not sure how many candidates I'm not sure if there were
external candidates and I'm not sure like what are the departments that other
people apply for for that position so that's interesting
to say the least about that I felt like I was a good fit for the role
we'll see so that's pretty much it for this video we'll do another video on how
to ace the internal interview and that might be the next video actually so hope
you guys will stay tuned for that tomorrow and you guys have any questions
about the internal interview experience you know come on
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