hey guys ECR G here back with another episode today's episode is about CNN's
downside of working from home they recently published an article on their
website that caught my attention and it talks about the downside of working from
home so I'm gonna go in that today what applies to clinical research from that
article what does not apply to clinical research
from that article and why clinical research professionals should not really
be worried about these downsides put in this article about the downsides of
working from home before we go into that I just want to share with you guys some
very very exciting news that I receive from one of my clients and their resume
review program I am super stoked about this we work
together Sunday night and Monday night this week this is January 24th as you
can see probably on my screen now this is January 24th a Thursday event I'm
recording this video and we work together literally Sunday night Monday
night she had her interview on Tuesday and she already got an offer for an
in-house seer a level two position not level one guys you already know it's
hard enough to get back into the industry but in house er a level two she
got offered that today so shout out to you you know who you are just wanna let
you guys know about that because she did email me over some questions that they
did ask her so I will record another video about that some questions that she
received during her interview but as always she did do the resume review
program with me but she did buy the top tier package she did do that and that
comes with an interview prep so we did that Monday night before the interview
and she killed it I could tell she killed it cuz they came with an offer so
fast just two days after the interview so they must really have liked her and
she had some pretty good experience also they were able to tweak on her resume
but I think most of all we we just worked on the confidence and seeing a
lot of the questions that I asked in my customized questions set show up during
her interview for the in-house CRA position so just want to shout her out
and shout and give that information to all you guys too because I know a lot of
people have been emailing me about the program and I'm sure you're curious if
it's working or not so she said she'd write a testimonial
also so I'll add that to the resume interview testimonials but just wanted
to share that with you guys before I go into today's episode so today's episode
is about the downside of working from home as we mentioned before and for
those listening on the podcast sorry you're not gonna see my screen for this
one but I'm gonna you know read as much as I can to you and for those watching
on YouTube you should be able to see my screen now so we got the downside of
working from home so the article starts out you know saying a growing number of
people are working out of the office as we all know this you know according to a
2008 teen Gallup poll 43% of Americans say they work remotely at least
sometimes but even as this kind of work working arrangement becomes increasingly
common some managers still value in-house workers over those that they
can't see so here's the punchline research shows remote workers could be
missing out on opportunities available only to inhale in office workers because
managers still value face time above all else even when it doesn't seem to have a
direct effect on an individual employees performance and they go on to say not
all offices are prone to this kind of bias some jobs of course require a lot
of travel or away from desk work as part of the role and you know basically the
punchline is there is this unconscious perception of people who are seen around
the office during regular working hours and outside of regular hours is
dedicated reliable committed and dependable so basically what this
article is trying to say that because you're able to be seen by your
co-workers your colleagues your boss in other managers that you will be getting
a lot of the in office perks and things you're more likely to get a promotion or
anything like that a bonus because they can see you rather than someone who is
you know not office based and is in as remote now
I think clinical research is as in its own little bubble with this because
remote work and clinical research is built into the fabric at this point if
you've ever worked for a CRO or or a pharma company you know that there are
company there are people in the company based all around the world that you
literally work with especially as a in a CRO I worked for a global CRO half the
team was based in another country so we are we are you know even though I'm
coming into the office you know my manager was based in another country and
we had to work that time schedule out just to just to be able to meet to have
one-on-ones but even like on the project team you've got data manager based in
Amsterdam you've got TMF team based in France
you've got another you know project manager assistant based in England so
you're having to you know work and use these tools like Skype and WebEx and
email and all the in phone and all these things anyway
you're not talking to the people face to face that you're actually working with
anyway so I don't think that face time bias really really affects you if you're
working in a global CRA and a global CRO or a global pharma company because
you're not getting the face time anyway and those are really really good skills
to to learn and master anyway even if you do work with people that are in the
same office as you so I don't think because of that we're not really getting
much face time that there's gonna be as much of an encanta
unconscious perception of people who are seen around the office to be more
reliable committed dependable like the article says so I don't think that
really applies to clinical research in the same way it could apply to other to
other industries because of that fact and then another important fact that
keep in mind in clinical research is if they are if if you do see that they are
giving people more perks and bonuses and things of that nature because they're in
the office more you can always leave in clinical research it is not uncommon for
people to have many jobs within their first few years in the industry it is
not looked down upon you aren't punished because of it and they definitely don't
dock your cell because of it either people jump all the
time they call it jumping people jump from company to company all the time and
clinical research and it has no bearing on your career whatsoever it is very
very common turnover is really really high and I actually recently saw an
article about you know CRO is wanting to limit the turnover right now so they're
gonna probably start releasing some a lot more incentives and things
throughout the rest of the year to limit the employee turnover so that's
something to keep in mind a lot of industries aren't like that you've got
to work three years four years get a couple promotions before you're
allowed to jump or else companies are gonna think that you're unreliable that
you're unloyal you know one person thinks that because you had three jobs
in three years that you're unloyal whereas another person they're gonna say
you're experienced because you've had three different experiences so it's just
one side of the coin and versus another but look I mean the times are changing
people that are young are definitely more used to using the technology and I
think you can get a lot of that in clinical research definitely people on
the lower end of the totem pole tend to be younger and more able to use the
technology you know the older generation just adopted it where we were born with
it to reference that old Bane quote from the Batman so look I mean there's
definitely this bias out there potentially for people that aren't
really used to the technology but for the younger folk the people that are
coming up in clinical research now we're so used to the technology FaceTime
texting I mean I guess we don't really talk on the phone as much as we used to
but definitely those two that not really seeing people face-to-face is perfectly
fine for us so I mean look in clinical research is very conservative in certain
aspects of it when it comes to like new technology being introduced but
surprisingly this remote work is something that is not very conservative
what they're not very conservative with and you can tell I mean some companies
will allow their allow their entry-level employees to
work from home you typically got to be like a project manager you know
basically like after you get a decent promotion and up after probably the
first year and a half or so working in a CRO or Pharma they may let you you know
work from home eventually you know one day a week and then bump that up to two
days a week and so on and so forth so people are you know taught from an early
start and clinical research that you can work from home and work remotely so I
don't think this really applies to clinical research at all and I know I've
kind of done a video on this on the path in the past but this is something that's
becoming more and more apparent in other industries so I just wanted to touch on
it again here in early 2019 how remote work is
definitely gonna be something of the future because you don't need to hire a
workforce that lives within a 5 to 10 mile radius of the office you can hire a
workforce that lives almost anywhere you know throughout the whole entire time
zone if necessary so that's something just to keep in mind and you know you
guys can go check out the article yourself you see the link here and I
honestly put it in the description if you want to read the full article but
just want to touch on that for you guys I hope this episode was great and
probably probably what you expected with clinical research if any of you guys
have entered in the field already or for those that are wanting to get in you can
kind of understand why the culture of clinical research is focused around
remote work and why it's really not a big deal in clinical research and why
that's something you can look forward to if you got a family if you got kids or
you just want a more flexible schedule you know working from home is really
really awesome it's enough to wake up an hour and hour and a half two hours
before you have to get into work you know often times when I work from home I
wake up you know five minutes before I've to get on and then you know you can
do your thing you know slowly get ready throughout the day so alright guys
that's it for today's episode email me elite clinical group at
gmail.com for any inquiries you may have resume review program or any type of
interview preparation a lot of people have trouble with behavioral style
questions so I'll do my own personal question set customized for you if you
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like those different positions so it is a customized question set for the
position that you are interviewing for so if you're interested email me Ali
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