hey guys II see RG here today we're gonna be talking about why is it so hard
to become a CRA hey guys ECR G here today we're gonna be talking
about why it's so hard to be a CRA and today I have a couple reasons for you
guys and you know it's really frustrating I know for a lot of people
who heard about clinical research heard about this great job an opportunity
called CRA clinical research associate and then they finally get into the
industry and realized it's not very easy to attain at least right now and it's
not very it's not as easy to get there as you thought once possible I know a
lot of people like to advertise that it's so easy you can come into the
industry become a CRA and I think the industry really goes through peaks and
valleys where sometimes it is easier to get to that role it seems like people
are pushing you to that role when other times it feels like you're really really
fighting against it and you really have to you know like
you're swimming upstream to attain that goal and it's it's
frustrating but just hold out hope and eventually you will get there so one of
the reasons why it can be so hard to be a CRA is for the CRA program is because
you have to be trained for them they are constantly changing the they're
constantly changing what they're looking for to accept into their programs one
minute they want study coordinators the next minute they want people with no
experience or people entry-level people from college or something like that
we're new to the field the next minute they want people with one year
experience in the field the next minute they want people with
two years experience in the field so it just changes all the time and it's so
annoying for people that are trying to be CRA s because you come into the field
you realize you're gonna have to work the entry-level job you know take your
meeting minutes and whatnot for a year and then you're gonna be on your way
you're gonna be able to get in to a program to be a CRA or someone's gonna
hire you to be a CRA and then they slammed the door shut and they're like
so fast so it's gonna be frustrating for you just keep it up I have no idea what
the industry will be like when I finally release this video but at least right
now it seems to be going through a little bit of a downturn I remember when
a lot of my friends were becoming CRA s a few years ago now this was we see 2013
2014 yeah 2014 2015 they were they had worked the year they had worked all 2014
and they were being pushed almost into being CRA s like it was like the natural
evolution those automatic it seemed like they didn't have to beg for it they'd
have to ask to be promoted etc a lot of them came in as either the CTA the
clinical trial assistant position entry level through quintiles good position a
lot of them came there and then quintiles used to have an in-house CRA
position where you would work from home but you were in how CRA you would do TMF
or remote monitoring and they had that position where they just gradually put
you in there from the CTA position and then after a year of that they kicked
you into the CRA role it was like bada-bing bada-boom easy oh I also had
some friends that worked for Parks L they had a role called a CMA also a
clinical monitoring associate basically an in-house CRA after a year of doing
that they kicked you out on the road in the field they said get out of here we
want you on the road make up making us more money so it really seemed to be
easier to become a CRA back in the day back just back 2014-2015 and you know
now it's not here 2017 2018 so I mean I don't know what that's about
they were changing the characteristics you know people a lot of my friends get
in how CRA rolls out of college you know making decent money and then thanks then
you know you're on the you're being kicked out to be a CRA and you know it's
just not like that anymore which is frustrating because I know
people hear about oh there's this great feel to be a CRA and you get in the
field and it's not like that you think you feel like once you get experience
you know more people will be able to you know we asking you for jobs etc and I
guess how you really know that the market isn't doing well is when people
aren't hitting your inbox to be for jobs anymore or calling you randomly for jobs
this industry used to be known for that recruiters constantly getting you up to
take you off of to take you away from your company and bring you on to another
company for more money I used to get hit up a lot for jobs almost weekly but
pretty much once every three weeks or so a recruiter would be in my inbox telling
me about a position and it could just be the timing of everything I things tend
to open up open up around summertime so it could just be that so hold on tight
for then if you're willing to be a CRA winter time goes by quickly and then
sooner or later it's January the January to April timeframe is tough because the
jobs don't start open up until like May June maybe a little bit in April but and
also there's no vacations from January to April
there's not many there might be one day in there or something I think Easter and
Easter is in there but not everybody gets off of that in the USA so I mean
that just just that can be difficult for it to be a CRA also another thing that
can make it really difficult to be a CRA is there's just the overall hypocrisy of
the industry they say there's a demand for CRA s but it's very hard to become a
CRA so if there's a high demand for something you would think it'd be
relatively easy or relatively cheap to meet that demand or to get into that
position and it doesn't seem like that's the case I don't think there's an
oversaturation of the market it doesn't seem like that it seems like there's I
mean I know I'm studies that I work on it seems like we're we're thirsty for
CRA resourcing we're thirsty for there's
work out here that needs to be done and there's sponsors out here that are
willing to pay for it to be done so I don't know what is going on I don't know
if companies are trying to analyze if the you know risk benefit analysis works
to train series in-house or what you know through a CRA training program I
don't know what is going on but it seems to be slowing down and you know just
just be mindful of that I think I think what you want to do is is wade through
the storm continue to get your experience and then when it opens back
up jump on out any opportunity that arise but it's it's crazy it's crazy
that you know it's so hard to be a CRA in the industry but just like anything
if anything that's worth doing you know takes time doesn't come easy so
unfortunately that's just the world we live in now I and the industry always
goes through its ups and downs so this could be honest way down and then
obviously it'll come back up again because we're doing good work in
clinical research bringing drugs to market for people that need them yeah
and that's something that I'm passionate about and I'm sure a lot of you guys are
passionate about that that would listen to this channel so that's it for today
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