hey guys easy RG here back with another episode
today we're gonna be talking about what you can expect during a recruiter screen
so first off I'm not gonna tell you about as I normally do about our resume
review program or any of the coaching we offer or any of the interview prep we
offer and how you can just email us at elite clinical group at gmail.com if
you're interested in ensuring your success in getting to the next level of
the interview process I'm not gonna talk about that so I'm gonna just jump right
into this episode right here so what can you expect from the recruiter screen now
this is typically the first thing that happens after you send in your resume
and it gets selected so after you after resume gets selected they have picked
out your resume from however many applicants they may have had 50 60 100
they picked out your resume and wants you to be the people that are gonna make
it onto the interview but first they're gonna give you a recruiter screen this
is gonna be maybe a 30 minute 15 minutes a 30 minute conversation with the
recruiter you're gonna ask you a few questions
and kind of tell you more about the role and the purpose of this is to weed out a
little bit of the candidates and kind of narrow down their candidate pool to the
ones that they actually want to interview or have a phone conversation
with a hiring manager so they're typically gonna ask you a few questions
you know why are you interested in this role is a common question that they may
ask you you know why are you interested in this company or why did you apply for
this world another common question why are you planning on leaving your current
company there's another common question you know they're typically gonna ask you
about three to five questions you know tell me about your current role in your
past experience they're particularly gonna ask you anywhere from three to
five questions kind of basic those questions you can expect kind of just
entry-level questions they're gonna ask they're not gonna go into too much depth
at all they're not gonna ask you hey what is the 1572
or whose names are listed in box six of the 1572
they're not gonna ask you those specific questions or how do you reconcile you
know the TMF or anything like that they're not gonna ask you that so what
they're gonna do is just ask you those basic questions and they're gonna pretty
much do the rest of the talking after that so you're gonna do the talking for
pretty much the first 10 minutes or so then they're gonna do the rest of the
talking after that telling you about the position and this is a good opportunity
to ask some questions about the position some things you may not have thought of
but this is a pretty informal process I mean it's a little bit more formal than
you know just talking casually like if you met them out on the street but it's
pretty informal and they're pretty much just asking you these questions to see
if you're a good fit for the role just a good preliminary screen so I was called
a recruiter screen and it was pretty informal usually 95 percent of the time
it's informal where I've had them and I've done a number of these and you know
they just want to make sure that you're a good fit for somebody to go talk to
the hiring manager and then potentially interview now most of the time depending
on the role this could be the part right before the interview or right before
talking to the hiring manager now I've actually had recruiter screens though
the 5% that I'm talking about were they grill you with questions now for my firm
my clinical research associate one position that I got they grilled me with
questions during this recruiter screening and it seemed like that was a
kind of a theme for the whole interview process
maybe you've went back and listened to those videos where I kind of detailed
each step of the process seven interviews total but and this was the
first one and they grilled me with questions I was not expecting it I was
kind of going in there with the attitude like hey they're gonna have some three
to five you know simple questions so I was kind of ready for that and to make
typically I like to I don't like to over prepare for interviews I don't want to
come off as kind of like a machine so I kind of
we kind of under prepare and kind of let my I guess charisma and my knowledge
base kind of take me the rest of the way I said wait how I do it
and a good thing I was kind of good on my feet I think actually a good thing I
do this podcast slash YouTube channel every single day because I think that
allows me to speak more fluidly and speak more about my experience and
skills cuz I do this every single day with you guys so I was able to kind of
like think on my feet better when she was peppering me with these questions
it was just rapid-fire back to back to back but that's not the norm most of the
time it's just a few questions they're gonna ask to take you on to the next
level they're not gonna ask anything specific now especially this is an
entry-level position they're not expecting you to know anything specific
to clinical research yet they're gonna be asking about your background your
previous experience that sort of thing why you want to why understand clinical
research why you're interested in this clinical research position so that's
pretty much we can expect from a recruiter screen anywhere from fifteen
to thirty minutes not long at all and you know we'll do another video on how
you can expect to ace it but just to know like what you can what you can
expect from a recruiter screen that's gonna be really really helpful so hope
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