hey guys ECR G here back with another video and today we're gonna be talking
about the non-compete in clinical research hey guys EC our G here today
we're gonna be talking about the non-compete in clinical research now
this is something that is usually reserved for doctors attorneys people
with clients people where you get your own clientele and you can leave the
company and potentially compete with that company so that's where the
non-compete is really used but it's starting to pick up some traction in the
clinical research space but before we delve into that I'd like to let you guys
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at elite clinical group at gmail.com back to the non-compete the non-compete
is exactly how it says in the name non-compete for individuals to not
compete but I've been seeing this crop up into positions that are not executive
level sometimes they do offer that for executives to sign that so that they
don't go out and start their own thing right after they get some experience or
develop some client relationships so they don't leave and start their own
thing and put the main business at risk but we've seen this with CE Ras so I
know of one company so far actually a couple companies that do this but one
company med pace they make their CRA sign a
non-compete agreement there are a few companies that do this actually med pace
is just one of them but they make their people sign a non-compete if you come in
under their CRA program they train you to be a CRA you have to sign a
non-compete and this is on Glassdoor this is on all the reviews of the
company and things of that nature and the reason why they do this is you know
from their perspective so they're training you they're putting all those
resources into you to become a CRA and that's obviously a very in-demand
position and with very little experience as a CA you can then leave and get paid
a lot more money elsewhere so they know that they make you sign a
non-compete all non-competes are different they can be for different
lengths of time never sign one longer than three years that's just ridiculous
but I'm very apprehensive about signing those especially because not it's not an
industry standard not a lot of companies will do it but there are other companies
that will do it for non CRA positions I once was told to sign a non-compete for
a entry-level clinical research position this was an entry-level position so in
my mind if you're a company and you're having your employees sign a non-compete
for an entry-level position and/or ain't really a CRA position or any other
position in clinical research like that you must be your your business must be
so lazy where you feel like the culture is so bad where as soon as they're able
to what your employees are gonna leave you what does that say about your
business that you have to have someone sign a non-compete in a non
client-facing position a non client-facing role because clinical
people do not face the client or you have bottom-of-the-barrel people the
lowest on the totem pole you do not want them to compete with your business you
make them sign a one or two year or three your non-compete what does that
say about your culture that as soon as people have the ability to they're gonna
leave your company so that's something for companies to think about
when they're making people sign non-competes because it is not an
industry standard for people in these roles to sign non-competes
and quite frankly it just puts a bad taste in people's mouths it's like you
don't trust me you want to bring me on and use me for my work and in my
expertise but you don't you don't trust me you don't trust your company you
don't trust the values so that's something that you've really got to
think about as a company that if you are making people sign non-competes who are
very low on the totem pole I mean CR CRA s is a great role and you can make a
good amount of money but that's not very high up in the in the ladder chain
they're not in project management you know it's one thing if you have like
project directors or something signing a non-compete
but a CRA they don't have any client-facing interaction really at all
all they do is face sites it's one thing just because of the demand if you want
to have a CRA sign a one-year non-compete but multiple non-career
competes are just ridiculous especially since it's not an industry standard so
that's just something to think about and you know if you're if you're a company
and you're providing great opportunities and great benefits there should not be a
need for non-compete if you're giving the best experience you can to your
employees there should be no need for a non-compete because they're gonna want
to stay with you so I mean if you're paying them the best if you're giving
them the best opportunities and turnover is a huge deal in clinical research a
part of it is because you can get great opportunities and benefits people are
sweetening the deal elsewhere so why wouldn't you leave if you're doing the
same job and you can get much better deal much better benefits much more
relaxing much more money why wouldn't you leave so as a company you've really
got to audit yourself and I think a lot of times companies don't want to do that
they don't want to look at themselves in the mirror and say hey we've got to
really do better here and turnover is a huge issue in clinical research very
rarely is a team a complete team longer a complete team together longer than a
few months every few months somebody the team is leaving and I know it's so
annoying because you've got to get you got to get new Seavey's you've got to
get new certifications you've got to get new training you've got some you've got
to always train people on your team on what's going on you've got new people
coming in you've got to explain the protocol to them over and over and over
again it's really annoying and I'm sure the client notice notices when there's a
lot of turnover I think it's things get slowed down
the study team notices it reverberates around the whole entire project and the
whole entire study team when there's turnover but that's just how clinical
research is that's just how it is so if there's better opportunities and better
benefits you know enough for there not to be a
non-compete then that's essentially making everything better because there's
not gonna be as much turnover so business is gonna be better things are
gonna move more Slough smoothly and the sponsors are gonna be a lot happier so
there's a lot of reasons why I'm coming against non-compete so hard especially
because I'm a little bitter because I was offered to sign one needless to say
I did not sign it I did not go with that job so I'm curious if anybody listening
to this has ever been able to negotiate out of signing a non-compete and I'm
curious so comment down below or send us an email I'm very curious about that
because they are popping up in the industry we'll see how that goes
hopefully they go away but they are coming up in the industry companies are
sticking them out so I'm curious if people have been able to negotiate the
terms of the non-compete maybe even take some money off their salary or how they
were able to negotiate that a little bit better but I hate non-competes
I know a lot of people hate them but sometimes in situations you've got to do
it you've got to do so thanks guys for listening like share this video please
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