hey guys Serg here back with another episode today I've got a juicy juicy
episode for you guys I think this one is gonna be extremely valuable extremely
high yield for anybody looking to break into the clinical research industry or
looking for clinical research coordinator positions because I recently
had someone who emailed in you know we talked a little bit about their kind of
career path via email answer some questions for them that type of thing
and they were spotted back they had an interview for a clinical research
coordinator position and they actually responded back and wrote down some of
the questions that were asked of them during the interview and kind of
detailed the situation so I'm gonna go into that here in a second but before I
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to help guys so let's go ahead and get back into this so this person you know
I'm just gonna go ahead and basically say what they said so when asked about
the interview they said overall it went pretty well the beginning they filled
out a little application form they said there was a human resource
representative present and but they ended up leaving a little bit early so
overall the interview was about 40 minutes in length and they said in the
beginning the questions were kind of general related to the background you
know such as where you grew up where they went to school you know
things like that next question they asked was why do I
want to work in clinical trials what do I know about clinical trials etc so more
general questions about clinical trial this seems like a standard interview you
know standard standard interview talking point here next questions they asked
about were chat about challenging situations how do you handle situations
in crisis how you handle certain ethical issues what would you do in situations
and if she could give examples and if the person could give examples from
their previous work history now this is what's called behavioral style
interviewing and I know a lot of people have issues with this style of interview
so I'm actually gonna make more content about this in the future but people have
actually and I've had clients specifically when we do our interview
prep they want to be asked these behavioral style interview questions
because this is becoming very very popular in the clinical research
industry and it's really becoming the way that clinical research questions are
being asked nowadays for interviews so next questions where how are you in a
team like setting are you good with team work would you be a good fit for Team mm
they mentioned that you know the research coordinator is a position that
is in the middle of a bunch of other positions like patients pis
other doctors sponsors monitors and they're key for making sure the clinical
trial runs smoothly so they asked about that see what else they said mmm so
that's that's a lot of it and then at the end this person asked her some
questions so at the end of an interview guys it's always important to make sure
that you ask questions if you don't ask questions at the end of an interview
kind of makes it sound like you don't care or you're unprepared you don't want
to come off like that so there are some questions you definitely want to avoid
and there are some questions that you can't ask but we'll talk about that in
another interview in another episode this is not what this is about
so yeah so this is uh and then they ended
the interview with you know what kind of salary are you looking for and that
that's pretty much it so we've talked about the behavioral style interviews in
the past and that's what's really really common and that's what is going to be
used in clinical research style interviews doesn't matter if you're
gonna be applying for a study coordinator project specialist project
coordinator project assistant behavioral style especially for these entry-level
roles it is what is going to be asked of you so I want to just report that to you
guys I wanted to know if if that was gonna be helpful for you guys as helpful
as I think it would be I remember when I was applying for my first clinical
research positions I was wondering what kind of questions would be asked and
there you have it from a real live client of mine what questions were asked
during interview so I have another client also who said that she would
email in the questions that were asked of her if you're interested I also have
other videos with talking about some of the questions that are asked during an
interview so go check those out you check those out on YouTube and the
podcast as well so and stay tuned for more content on interviewing that's
definitely something I'm gonna focus more on in 2019 because I know I've
gotten a lot of requests for those type of episodes so thank you for listening
as always email me Ali clinical group at gmail.com if you have any inquiries take
care