hey guys ECR G here and today I wanted to touch base with you guys on the
secrecy around certain clinical research positions
hey guys Serg here and today i want to talk about some of the secrecy and smoke
and mirrors going around about some of the certain wreak clinical research
positions that your company may be hiding from you so at some companies
I've noticed that they will send out a bulletin of the positions that they're
looking for whether on a weekly basis a monthly basis bi-weekly whatever it is
but companies tend to send out bulletins or have the positions posted somewhere
we can go and look at which positions are open and one of the things I've
noticed is that companies have a really easy time I guess posting positions that
they want to hire for but they're not posting a lot of the entry-level
positions now I find that very strange because it's clear that a lot of these
positions I mean clinical research is going up more and more businesses being
pushed out a big pharma is outsourcing 2cr owes more and more so we're
obviously going to need entry-level positions especially if people want to
start from the bottom and go to the top it's gonna be hard for somebody coming
from a brand new industry to just jump into clinical research and clinical
trials and just you know be able to start from that but it can't happen but
I'd say for most people they have to start from the bottom so they can get a
good strong foundation but I've known this notice this weird thing where
there's a lot of smoke and mirrors about the positions like for example there's
never any in-house CRA positions on this on this form that they send out there's
never any information about a CRA training program it's all just hearsay
about how to get into it it's not very clear about how to get into it even
though there is one there let's see yeah there's never they never
post any job openings for for entry-level CRA positions never CRA one
they're always posting for senior CRA s I don't know if that's to discourage
people from going that route it can't be that because there's clearly a high
demand there's more demand than ever for C arrays and it's expected to go up even
in 2018 and 2019 so I don't understand why there's all this secrecy about how
to be a CRA and the path to take to it even for positions like in house CRA
they all whenever they post it it's always looking for a senior or an
in-house CRA level to and it's usually those positions I've also seen all the
project manager positions they post our level two or senior project manager it's
never a project manager level one so I don't know what the deal is with that
maybe if you're a recruiter or somebody you can comment down below on this and
see why why there is that so much secrecy around it but really there
shouldn't be this much secrecy this this is something that does not promote
royalty to your organization because if it's not clear on the path and steps you
need to take to get to where you want to be to get to the next level to get into
the positions you want to be in because a lot of people just take a job in the
industry to get their foot in the door and then move on to something else
bigger and better later on whether at that company or at another company but
this is one of the reasons why turnover is so high in the industry is because
it's not clear how to get to where you want to be especially when people want
to be in-house see arrays or or field C Ras if the pathway is not clear then
they're gonna jump to where the pathway is clear they're gonna go apply
somewhere else to be a CRA and more often than not they're gonna be
accepted eventually just because the supply-demand of this situation so this
secrecy and and stuff of that nature does not promote loyalty if you if your
guys are sending out a bulletin or requesting people to apply for positions
you need to have the entry-level positions the level one positions
there as well because we know you guys are hiring those positions we see new
people coming in people see new people coming in all the time there's a lot of
turnover there's new people bi-weekly if not you know weekly at one of the
companies I used to work for they used to have a permanent sign down there in
Lobby talking about where they could direct people for orientation so they
knew they always had people coming into the organization at all times on a
weekly basis to have an orientation to the company so it's really ridiculous
and this is just one of those things that an organization can improve on make
it a lot clearer on the pathway to get to where you want to be to really
improve loyalty and improve the ability for someone to progress at an
organization because that's one thing that's important I mean there's many
things that's important for loyalty and a reason why someone might stay at a CRO
but the secrecy in hidden mirrors around the CRA training program and how to get
in the CRA training program if there's all this crap and red tape to deal with
someone's just gonna go elsewhere where they're gonna get a higher salary one
because that's typically how things work a much higher salary at that and it's
just clear it's it's easier and they're already doing what they want to do if
they move somewhere else so this is this is something that I think needs changing
very very quickly because companies always complain about how much how
pricey it is to hire somebody and that was complaining about turnover in the
industry and employees aren't loyal anymore or Millennials aren't loyal
anymore and they just want to change jobs this is something that needs to be
changed fast if you want to see that change or if you don't that's just gonna
be the nature of the business so I would love for you guys to comment on that
down below maybe talk about what your company does around
going through CRA training or in-house CRA training or any of the entry levels
and talked about some of the bulletins dealing with that that your company may
send out you can leave that below in the comments and give your thoughts on it
baby I'm just full of crap and it's just the companies I've worked for and no one
else is doing this but I feel like if my companies are doing this then some other
companies have to be doing this too and you may be experiencing this as well so
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