not one not two not three but ten interview questions that managers will
ask you in clinical research coming right up after the intro hey guys
ECR G here back with another video today we're gonna be talking about ten
interview questions you can guarantee that hiring managers will ask you during
the interview process at some point during the interview process you will
get asked all ten or at least most of these ten questions so if you are
interested in improving your chances of getting that job after the interview
sign up for one of our interview prep time slots how you sign up is you email
me at elite clinical group at gmail.com and tell me you're interested in some
interview prep we're going to hammer home some questions both behavioral and
clinical questions that you can be sure that you'll be asked these will be
high-yield questions and if you're asked you'll know be able to knock them out
the park so email me Ali's clinical group at gmail.com we'll do 30 minutes
of questions and then we'll follow it up with 30 minutes of how you responded
we've got all these different options for you we can send you a recording of
how you did and all this other stuff so if you're interested email me elite
clinical group at gmail.com so what's the first question that you're gonna be
asked and these are of course and no different in no particular order here
but one of the most important questions you're going to be asked is where do you
see yourself in five years and this is a question that they are wanting to see
okay do you have a five-year plan do you have a five-year plan at this company or
like what is your goals are they reasonable for you to achieve in this
career path do you know what you're talking about in this career path so
that's one of the questions you're gonna be asked and this is a time for you to
really be honest and specific about what your future goals are so this isn't this
is not a time where you want to say okay I want to work at this company for a
year then bounced a different company for a year no no no
you don't want to respond like that you want to talk about yeah you see yourself
growing at this company and talk about some of the career progressions that can
happen within that five years and really make it come off as genuine and honest
as possible so that's one of the questions you're gonna get asked where
do you see yourself in five years and then here's a pretty much classic
questions you're gonna be asked the next one is tell me about a challenge or
conflict you've faced and how you dealt with it
now this is a question that they want to see how you work when there's adversity
on the line how do you work in a stressful situation so this is one of
those ones where you want to have one of your stories prepared for this or like a
generic story that can be used for multiple different questions but a time
there was some adversity and how you overcame it that's one of the other
questions so here's another one that you could be asked what is your greatest
professional achievement and this is really an opportunity for you to brag on
yourself and talk about how great you were in some situations some positive
aspects about you and really brag about yourself this is a good time to talk
about those numbers I know we've talked about those before on the resume if you
listen to some of the resume videos but if you've got some specific numbers or
specific data about how you helped out a client or how you helped the company
make more money or how you helped them save a little bit more money this is a
great opportunity to talk about that and to kind of sneak this into your
professional achievements so they know they know you're not afraid a to you
know kind of brag about yourself and be that you have had success in your
previous roles so here's one I hate getting asked this question I think it's
a really really lame question but it's a common one and you're probably gonna get
asked it so what do you consider to be your weaknesses you know what is your
greatest weakness and I hate hate hate this question because it's so lame I
feel like a lot of people and response to this question they say something
that's not really a weakness but it's like a backhanded
compliment of themselves like sometimes I'm too much of a perfectionist that's
the classic one don't say that guys come up with an
actual weakness here and then you can talk about how you've worked really hard
to correct that weakness so one of my weaknesses was taking meeting minutes I
was terrible at it in the beginning but I ended up taking a course through the
through the company I was working for they had courses on this and I ended up
you know getting better at them and I ended up working with the project
manager and they would always provide feedback and I'm gradually getting
better and better at it through that way so you know think about something like
that something you hate doing something that you know you're bad at and come up
with some ways that you got better with it so that's one and then obviously the
flip of that what are your what are some of your strengths is another question
you're most likely gonna get asked so if you get asked one of them you can be
rest assured you're gonna be asked the other one so we're your greatest
strengths that you should have a lot of these and you know you just pick you
pick one essentially pick one of your strengths talk about how you've
developed it talk about why it's one of your strengths and then you should have
something to back it up maybe like a certificate honoring that maybe like
some feedback one of your managers gave you on that
you know don't don't just say you know a random strength you want to have
something to kind of back it up add a little bit more oomph to it so that's
one next one is why should the company hire you why should we hire you and you
know some of these are difficult to answer I feel like the weakness one is
kind of difficult to answer but there should be many reasons why they hire you
I always like to talk about why I'm the best fit for the role so if it's a CRA
role I'm gonna talk about how I've monitored in the past but talk about how
many sites I've monitored before I'm going to talk about how passionate I am
about monitoring I'm gonna talk about how you know I love traveling all over
the country I'm gonna talk about how I love study coordinators and interacting
with pis I'm gonna say all that stuff and this is
really a good opportunity to sell yourself if they ask you that and that's
that's really what there looking for their there look they're
lopping you one right there you're supposed to hit it out the park
so take that and you know do your best with that but that's one where you
should be able to hit that one out the park and then here's another one that
they may ask you why do you want this job and once again that's another one
you should be able to hit out the park that's that's a softball you want to
talk about you can you can use the same kind of logic talk about your X past
experience why you're a great fit for that job and you know that can kind of
parlay you into why you want that job also so why do you want that job that's
another question then here's the one you can be sure they're gonna ask you about
what do you know about the company you know how did you hear about the company
and one of my favorite ways to talk about this is if you have a referral
maybe you had a friend that worked at the company and that's a that's a great
thing to talk about maybe you had a friend who really enjoyed working for
the company who maybe got in there as an entry-level person and kind of worked
their way up through the ranks and you know you've been friends with them they
highly recommend the company and then you can talk about some other things too
this is a great opportunity you know we're gonna ask you about this and so
this should be in your prep work beforehand you can go on Glassdoor you
can go on their website talk about some of the things that really stand out to
you with that company so that's a great opportunity for you also then the second
to last one the ninth question that you can be sure they're gonna ask you is how
did you hear about this position and then you know once I like I said before
this is a great opportunity for you also if you if you had a referral you want to
tie that in also talk about how that person right recommended you for the
position and they recommend that company also so that's a good opportunity for
you to plug that in also and then the last and probably one of the most common
ones for anyone to kind of open an interview for you is can you tell me a
little bit about yourself and you know this one stumps up a lot of people too
but everyone typically asked this question and this is an opportunity for
you to provide a brief few centons background on you know
how you kind of came up in the industry where you came from maybe you maybe if
their entry-level you want talk about college some a little bit of the
experience you have this is nothing you want to belabor but you know you just
highlights from your past career over the past five to ten years just high
level highlights and you know you don't want to give too many details here but
you definitely wanna provide some nuggets for them to piggyback off of and
be like oh that's interesting and then they're gonna talk to kind of about that
also this is a great opportunity if you can if you can lay some nuggets into
that you can kind of get them off topic of their normal questions set because
I'm not gonna lie I hate interviews where they just ask those normal
standard questions I like people that maybe they have a few questions down and
then they then they kind of go after some of the interesting things you say
and want to learn about that so that shows that the interviews going well if
you can get them off of their normal standard questions set that they're
talking about when they are actually showing interest and some of the things
you say that's a good sign so lay some nuggets in there with the can you tell
me about yourself and you know it's a good opportunity for you to talk about
some of your past experience and why you're a great fit for this new role
great opportunity so you know those are some very very common ten questions you
can be sure they're gonna ask you and we haven't even gotten to the clinical
questions yet so we're gonna do another video on the ten clinical questions I
mean ten clinical research questions that they may ask you during the
interview and you know some of those may be behavioral some of those may be
actual clinical questions so we're gonna go over them in another video and this
this all comes from a place because one up for very early on in my career I was
applying for a it was a project coordinator position with a CEO I'm not
gonna name the name but they asked me about a central document and at the time
I had only had like a month or two months of experience and so I kind of
knew that what the documents were like I knew financial disclosure form I knew
1572 I knew you know gzp training I knew
medical license CV I knew I knew those documents but when they said the term
essential documents or regulatory documents I let that trip me up and I
was like and so they had to kind of start me they're like oh you like GCP
and you know I know that kind of ruined the interview because are like this
person doesn't have enough experience to get this position but you know it just
takes time to kind of get familiar with some of the documents and terminology
and questions they may ask but I mean that's that's a lowball you got to know
what the essential documents are and so in that next video we are going to talk
about some of those lowball questions that they could ask you to really
separate you know people that know nothing about clinical research or at
least have a little bit of knowledge about clinical research so hopefully
this one this video was great for you some of the questions are for sure gonna
be asked and hopefully this gave you an idea of those and how you can prepare
your answers for those a little bit so as always guys like this video share it
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