hey guys Serg here back with another episode today I've got another question
from somebody who listens to the channel on either YouTube or on the podcast and
they are from India and they write in high EC RG I am from India I have done a
Bachelors of Science in life sciences from Delhi University now I am doing a
master's and Dietetics and food from Agnew simultaneously I am doing an
internship in bio stats and epidemiology Department of ICMR ni CPR therefore I am
working on a research paper sir I am keenly interested to make my career in
clinical research as a research assistant for what I am learning
statistics and SPS software - I would be immensely grateful to you if you could
guide me at how I how should I proceed further for this work and need to learn
which new skills - I am also open to global opportunities kindly respond as
soon as possible so thank you so much for your question I
have done a video on how to get jobs in India before so for those that also want
to watch that you can type in how to get a job in India or how to get a clinical
research job in India and my video should pop right on up if you listening
on youtube so to break down your question you're currently doing a
master's in Dietetics and you're also doing an internship in
bio statics and epidemiology so this is a little strange because you want to get
into clinical research but you're doing your masters in diet and diet dyadic so
know why I have a hard time saying that alright so first off I don't I'm not as
familiar with the program are you paying for this masters or not but if you don't
want to do any things with Dietetics and you're still continuing to get this
master's maybe you should see if you could switch it to another masters
that's a little bit more applicable to clinical research maybe like a master's
in pharmacologic s' maybe like a master's in biology
or a master's in clinical research itself they do offer those masters now
so I would see if you could do something a little bit more applicable to clinical
research than just getting a master just to get a master's because as I've said
on this channel numerous times your degrees do not matter in clinical
research unless you're being a medical monitor or something like that your
degree does not matter once again I've worked with people in
the entry-level job that had PhDs I've worked people that had dental
degrees I work with people in all types of educational advanced education and
sure they get paid a little more than me but not more than five thousand dollars
and I just had a bachelor's so your education as long as you have a
bachelor's degree it does not matter past that if you want to break into
clinical research and I in fact argue against it when I've done people's
resumes I have in fact told them to leave off the advanced degree because
sometimes that really puts you in a box and recruiters will pass right on over
you because they think that you want to get paid more than the job is worth and
you're not necessarily gonna do that much better than someone else who does
not have a degree or the advanced degree so that's my two cents on that which
also doing an internship in bio stats and epidemiology so once again I'll see
if you can change your internship to doing it into clinical research I think
that is one of the best ways to get into the clinical research industry is to
obviously get some experience and one of the best ways to get some experience
it's obviously getting internship so one see if you can change your master's
degree to a more applicable master's to see if you can change your internship to
a more applicable mass of internship so you have got to get some experience so
even if you complete your masters and this internship I'm still gonna
recommend that you do another internship in clinical research so might as well
just do it now because you're gonna need some experience so get an internship and
clinical research if you can so that that is my advice on that and then you
want to become a research assistant in clinical research
so you are gonna have to find a company that has research assistants now there
are plenty of companies India's a is not a bad place it's a growing place for
clinical research so I would also kind of expand your job market into maybe
study coordinator because a lot of studies are gonna be run in India coming
soon Twenty twenty Twenty twenty one twenty twenty two because it is cheap to
run clinical trials there is cheaper than other places in the world to run
clinical trials there so I would expand into clinical research coordinator I
would see also see if you can be some kind of clinical trial assistant or
something working for a CRO type field and explore all of these options because
the more broad your work search is the higher chance of you bringing into the
industry so I would definitely consider that also and I don't think you need to
leave India per se but if you were Great Britain is always a good option to a
United Kingdom or Ireland these places have decent clinical research
opportunities but India really does - especially as a growing growing market
for clinical research plenty of CEOs have operations their IQ via does CEOs
does you can work in the TMF you can be like a they call him attea TMF tech NIT
no not a technician but they have an entry-level TMF role that would that is
great and you can apply there you can go on indeed indeed has a great place page
for India and all these companies all these major pharmaceutical companies
have have operations going on in India so you you figure out which ones are in
your area and you go on and imply apply so one of the best ways is go on indeed
I talked about this in my other video related to India and you go on indeed
you type in your city and look at the clinical research jobs there or since
you're open to relocation I would just look anywhere in India and if they hire
you then you can relocate there so that's my advice you should definitely
consider especially because you're at a university consider if they have
clinical research and get in contact with you need to get coming in contact
with email phone call or show up in person and see if they have any
opportunities for you to get an internship not many people are gonna
turn down you know paying someone less or even working for free just to get
some experience not many people are gonna turn that down so that's my advice
you're already at a university so see what they have opportunities there see
what other opportunities they have other universities for clinical research and
get in contact with those folks so thank you so much for your question as always
if you're interested in any resume review helped or any interview
preparation or any LinkedIn profile make over email me alie clinical group at
gmail.com take care
you