hey guys Serg here back with another episode today I've got another in
another viewer submitted question so if you are interested in submitting a
question to me you can email me Ali clinical group at gmail.com this one
comes from a listener in India actually and I'm gonna go ahead and read his
message here his message says hello sir I am blank
I'm not gonna say his name but he's from India I found your channel content
helpful for me thanks for the time and hard work right now I'm pursuing a
master's of science and clinical research and working as an intern he's
got a parenthesis here a CR C which is a clinical research coordinator a study
coordinator same thing it's been a year now and I have got some experience about
how clinical trials are carried out I need some career advice from you if
possible I want to be a seat I want to be a CRA so please help me with any
advice you can provide thanks so guys it's it's the same advice that I'm going
to give over and over and over again for CRA because that's what works right now
there you gotta attack this from all angles no matter where you are so number
one is usually networking networking is extremely important so you want to
network with other people that are CRA s how are their CRA s so how are you gonna
find C arrays in India well my favorite way is gonna be LinkedIn you can
literally see which companies they work for so you know who is hiring CRA s
you need to see how many you get to see what company what opportunities and
companies that are there in the area that you are working in on LinkedIn you
get a lot of information from LinkedIn people are always emailing me from other
countries saying how do I get to the US how do I be a CRA in the u.s. well
newsflash guys if they're conducting clinical research in that country there
are CRA s in that country that live in that country so you don't have to
always move to the USA to be a CRA so that's something to think about also but
this person's been working a year as a study coordinator so what I recommend
for you is finish up your masters first in clinical research and try and get an
in-house CR a job or a serie one job but try to get an in-house CRA job working
for a pharma company or a CRO company and you know you obviously got to do
networking you've got to do indeed indeed is one of my favorite platforms
I've done a tutorial on that maybe it's time to do another one because we're
heading into 2019 maybe 2019 by the time this video is
released but definitely want to look at indeed and indeed is gonna tell you
which companies are hiring in in the area that you're looking for so I've
done a video on India before I've shown you guys how many opportunities there
are in India there are hundreds IQ view by themselves has like eight offices
throughout India which is the largest CRO by the way so there are plenty of
opportunities in India you do not need to move from India to pursue a clinical
research career so yeah I would definitely try and look for a CRO or a
Pharma to work for as an in-house CRA and then from an in-house CRA it's gonna
be easy for you to transition with your study coordinator experience into a CRA
role so that's one path another path is to go from study coordinator straight to
CRA now it's doable for sure I think it
might be a little bit harder just kind of depends I mean you want to explore
all avenues and then just go with whatever door opens so if the in-house
CRA door opens go with that if the CRA door opens go with that you've got to
explore this from all angles so when you're trying to get a job in the CRO
world or a Pharma world you've got to attack LinkedIn their recruiters on
there so you want to connect with them talk with them there are other si Ras or
whatever position you're looking for on on there to connect with them talk with
them figure how they got there so then go on indeed
apply for jobs hundreds of jobs if you can apply for a job every single day if
you can't and then that's gonna tell you which companies are hiring then go to
those companies websites that's my third and very very high-yield tip even though
I've gotten pretty much all of my jobs off of indeed I've had but yeah go to
those companies websites and apply directly on their website
another thing is do not wait don't wait until the following week to apply apply
immediately apply often apply early because they will recruiters will reach
out to you within that same day I've applied for jobs at 8:00 a.m. how to
call on my phone from a recruiter at midday at lunch so and then been in for
an interview you know a couple days later so they move quickly in this
industry and you don't want to be left waiting so apply as early as possible
and often as possible so hopefully this helps master's in clinical research it's
one of those things where the advanced education and clinical research doesn't
really mean anything unless you can couple that with some experience so
that's good that you're getting some study coordinator experience that will
mean a lot more coupled with the masters as if rather than just having the
Masters by itself people email me all the time about getting these degrees and
certificates and whatever that people are selling and they don't really mean
much unless you have experience to back that up so that that's pretty much safe
to say so that's good that you have a study coordinator experience also and
then one other thing to think about is what are the other study coordinators
that were there before you doing now and what are what are the plans are the
other study coordinators that you're there with now so you network with your
peers also they may have some valuable insights they may have some valuable
knowledge that you don't know about so you know like I said before it's about
networking networking networking networking that's how you tend to learn
things and know things so that's how I would go about being a CRA explore the
opportunities right there in India because there are plenty
like I said before IQ BIA has like eight offices there I was looking on their
website when I did that past video on how to get a job in India and iqv is
just one company there are hundreds of pharmaceutical companies and CEOs to
choose from so do your research get out there and indeed get on their personal
sites network and apply apply apply alright guys if you're interested we do
still have the resume review program going on right now
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