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Within the craresources blog you will see industry updates, Job Seeker and Hiring Manager advice. We want you to join us and help create the community you want to be a part of!Welcome to our blog!
Within this craresources blog you will see industry updates, Job Seeker and Hiring Manager advice. We want you to join us and help create the community you want to be a part of!We believe the most important role in this industry is that of a Clinical Research Associate. We ‘pound the pavement’ daily to find the best CRAs…and engage them.
The craresources blog offers advice to CRA job seekers and those who hire them. So buckle up, use the search feature, and if you have questions, give us a shout. We look forward to our collaboration!
Roundtable: How to Work With a Recruiter
How to Work With a Recruiter: Today’s roundtable is about how to work with a recruiter. And while we speak about working with a recruiter to obtain a new position, we also discuss how to continue working with your recruiter to transition into your role (if a perm...
The Value of a Well-Written CRA Job Description
CRA Job Description: “Angela, you know we don’t have a CRA job description,” my client said. “Just find me several great CRAs…you know what to look for.” She had a point. I and my team had provided CRAs to her for over a decade. So yes, I knew exactly what specific...
Podcast: Can You Count on Employment Check Results?
Employment Check: Many hiring managers feel employment verification and background checks are a waste of time and money. Alternatively, other clinical operations managers feel an employment check protects them from candidate fraudulence. Our firm feels performing a...
Is Lying on Your Resume Illegal?
Is Lying on Your Resume Illegal? It has been my observation that we are diving face-first into an employer-driven market. The shift from what has been a candidate-driven market has undoubtedly caused a lot of stress to many job seekers. Unfortunately, the highly...
Roundtable: Professional Networking = Small World Phenomenon
Professional Networking: Today’s roundtable is about how professional networking can create a Small World Phenomenon for you. And no, I am not talking about Disney World’s Small World ride. I am talking about the principle that Wikipedia describes where short chains...
Fake Job Applicants Can Pass a Background Check
Fake Job Applicants: As we continue the discussion on how to identify fake job applicants, I am constantly asked “But why not just call and verify past employment?” Seems like a reasonable question…doesn’t it? And many Clinical Operations Managers who are aware of...
Roundtable: What Not to Say in a Job Interview
What Not to Say in a Job Interview: It is standard practice for interviewers to open up the discussion with a question like “Tell me about yourself” or “Walk me through your resume.” I like starting an interview this way for a couple of reasons. First, answering this...
Roundtable: Self-Defeating Beliefs of the Unemployed
Self-Defeating Beliefs: The topic of this week’s roundtable is self-defeating beliefs and how they may be keeping you unemployed or unhappily employed. I refer to self-defeating habit patterns as Blockers. Blockers are those habit patterns that may have helped you...
How to Get a Job With a Criminal Record
Does having a felony record affect a person’s employability? Are you wondering whether your past is going to creep back in and make it hard to get hired?
Podcast: What Leads to Firing a Friend?
Firing a Friend: Do you think that bosses can have friends at work? It is a complicated question…and if your answer is no, then I am certainly guilty. I love my team members. Each and every one of them are more than just colleagues to me. But as the boss, fostering...
Roundtable: Declining a Job Offer In Today’s Economy
Declining a job offer: Some of our listeners may argue that no one should be declining a job offer in today’s economy. I find that many candidates decide to accept or decline a position based only on compensation. But aren't there other factors important to you? ...
Podcast: Getting a Job Using the Right Mindset
Getting a Job: Have you ever considered how getting a job is directly related to your mindset as a job seeker? Before you craft your resume, update your LinkedIn profile, or start applying for positions, consider whether your mindset may be turning off potential...
LinkedIn Job Search Tips
LinkedIn Job Search Tips: LinkedIn is one of the world’s most popular social network platforms in existence and to this author’s knowledge, the only social media platform that is focused on professional networking. Currently, LinkedIn boasts that they have over 900...
Blowing the Whistle on Fake CRA Programs
Blowing the Whistle: Blowing the whistle can be one of the most difficult decisions anyone can make. According to the Office of the Whistleblower Ombuds (a government site), blowing the whistle can have long-lasting personal impacts for the whistleblower as well as...
Applying for a Job as an Overqualified Candidate
Overqualified Candidate: We understand that the job market is lousy and you have a mortgage to pay. And by the way, according to the job description you just read, you can do the position in your sleep…so why not apply? Is applying for a job as an overqualified...
5 Successful Career Growth Strategies
Career Growth: Over the years I have learned a lot about setting career goals and achieving success. I have been extremely fortunate to work for and develop my growth within some of the largest, most well-known, and well-reputed companies in the world (such as IBM)....
Podcast: Hiring the Right Person Starts With…
Hiring the Right Person: Several years ago Lou Adler wrote an article that described what recruiters and talent leaders felt were challenges to hiring the right person. He boiled their feedback into two primary categories: Teams aren’t seeing enough quality...
Signs You Are Not Taking Control of Your Career
Taking control of your career: Fresh out of college, I made ends meet by bartending at the local. While I had graduated with honors, I hadn’t given my career path much thought. Quite frankly, I was more concerned with whether the weekend would yield a trip to the...
Why You Should Consider Hiring Industry-Certified CRAs
I recently answered a blog post from a CRA who wondered if she should become ACRP vs SOCRA certified. Her ultimate question was whether she should become certified at all. It made me think of this story... Our house’s main electrical panel box had suffered...
Roundtable: I need a job now…please help me
I need a job now…please help me: In the last 24 hours, one of our clients just received 667 applicants for an open CRA position. I just received 272 applicants for an administrative position (and they are still pouring in). The rub? Many of those candidates were...