hey guys ecrg here back with another episode
today i've got a very very special video a special episode for you guys today
a lot of people have been asking about interview interview interview
what's asked during the interview and i've got a report back
and i actually said i'd make this video a while back because one of my clients
who did a resume review package with me as
well as interview prep with me actually i announced that she got in uh
not promoted but she got offered an in-house cra position level two
which is excellent because she had originally applied for level one
but they were so impressed with her that they gave her an in-house cra level two
and she said a lot of that had to do with my interview prep because of the
questions that we did during that so if you're interested in any type of
interview preparation or resume review you can email me elite clinical group
gmail.com but she responded back with some of the questions that were
asked during the interview and i'm going to uh let you guys know
about some of these today uh just so you guys know when you're
going through your interviews or or you want to do some interview
preparation you can kind of think about these questions in advance
um and you know it kind of helps to and you can go back and watch some of my
past interview videos to kind of think about these questions and you want to
get some scenarios in your head down i talk about this when i do my
one-on-one interview prep with clients a lot is
the trick for interviews is to only think of a few
uh scenarios only thing of a few scenarios and situations
and use those and tilt those to the questions that they ask
so they could ask you 10 or so different behavioral questions
but you only need a few scenarios to just kind of plug and play with
in the interview a lot of people try and come up with a scenario or situation for
each question that's too much to remember and you want
to come off as natural as possible you don't want it to come
off overly rehearsed like reading off a script or something
so that's why i think preparing a few situations and scenarios is probably the
best way to go about interviewing in the clinical
research industry so she said she tried to drop down a few
of these questions so i'm gonna go ahead and start with the first one
she said name one positive and negative quality of your current manager
so that's a question that really they're trying to
uh you know kind of see what you what what you would say
um this is a question where when you're responding you do not want to go out
there and just bash your former manager that would look very bad because they're
going to be thinking wow what is this person saying behind my back if i were
to hire them so definitely don't want to do that next
question they have is name a quality you possess
that would be useful to this role so that's a good question i mean
really you should know your strengths and weaknesses and that's one of the
highlights i think of my interview prep that i do and resume review is
talk about those strengths and weaknesses for the clinical research
position and you know obviously if you rehearse
this and if you practice you should know where your strengths are
and your weaknesses lie are you familiar with regulatory documents
now this is a question that you know if you have prior experience in the
industry obviously you say yes you have to say yes but if you don't
have prior experience in the industry you want to
kind of portray that you are familiar with regulatory documents
um and so this might be us a question where
you might offer up a little bit of extra knowledge so that they don't
uh try and pry deep because you know if you have experience they're gonna ask
you specific questions like you know what is a 1572 or like
uh what is a financial disclosure form or you know what is the delegation of
duty's log type type of questions like that but if
you don't have if you're if this is an entry level position you don't need any
experience then you could say you're familiar but
if they start asking questions you're fine saying you don't know
but you plan on learning while you're in the role next question they asked is
name and accomplishment in your professional life that you are proud of
so this goes back to strengths and weaknesses obviously your strengths are
going to be things that you think you're good at but also other
people think you're good at so if you've got some kind of award
something that's an easy answer to this question
you know employee of the month or some type of departmental award or something
like that that's always good any type of
certificate you got that's always good too next question is
where do you see yourself in the next two to five years
um this is a common question they want to see if you are
preparing for long-term growth with that company or are you planning to be there
six months a year and leave so you definitely want to
kind of portray that you hope to stay with the organization and
grow your career there
um so next question they ask is if you are given an assignment with an
unreachable deadline what would you do and you know a lot of
times the interviewing style is going to be
behavioral based so they could flip that same type of question and say
have you ever had a situation where you were given a deadline and you couldn't
meet it so it's a kind of similar quick question
but you want to say either way you want to say what you
did or what you would have done in the in that situation
and oftentimes if they ask a behavioral question where i do not have a scenario
for or i don't have prior experience conducting
that's where you say what you would do so this is this is kind of interesting
question um next question they ask is how do you
handle managing multiple tasks so multi-task
just a basic multi-task question there another question they ask is what
interested you in this position i think that's pretty much par for the
course you've got to know why you're interested in that position
they're going to ask if you don't really know why or
or you say something like it's just a job uh that's not gonna look too good
um here's another question if you notice that something a colleague handed off to
you contains a mistake how would you handle that um
okay that's a pretty good question too this is this is
one of those behavior they want to see how you handle situations
so a lot of people struggle with those type of questions
and you know the question sets that i use for my clients are
most of it is behavioral based because that's extremely common
in the clinical research industry right now especially for the entry level roles
um because they're not going to ask you you know about specifics in the industry
because you're not going to know them you have minimal experience if any
so they're going to ask you about how you handle and work in situations
how you work in teams and handle adversity
but a lot of people do have trouble with that and that's why i really started the
interview prep process because i think there's a way to tackle
behavioral based interviewing and it is a skill and it's
different than what a lot of people are used to
but i think i could definitely help so you can email me eliteclinicalgroup
gmail.com if you're interested in that and then she also said there were a lot
of questions about employee to management relationship
so you know it just depends on the culture of the company
especially in clinical research you could either be really really close with
your management team or not close at all i remember in my
first position as a project specialist none of my
management team was even in the same country as me
like i'ma say that again none of the people i worked with
or managed more my management team were in the same country as me
they were all based elsewhere so it's important to understand
you know how your employee and management relationships are going to be
because you know some people need uh some people like their space
when it comes to management or and some people like to be checked up cause
uh checked up on constantly so it just kind of depends
so you got to know your management style how you like to be managed et cetera
so got a lot of good questions there so those are actual
um in-house cra questions uh that's what she had interviewed for
but she was a former crc so that's why i said crc
um but you know these are actual interview questions that were asked
um and you know these aren't all of them but this is definitely a good start for
someone who's looking to prepare and looking to get into
the clinical research field so hope this was
informative for you guys um any more questions or you want your
question answered or any any tips or anything like that email me
eliteclinicalgroup gmail.com take care
you