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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.
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Roundtable: Sounding Senior in a Competency-Based Interview
Let's talk about the competency-based interview and why it is important to approach every interview prepared to share your competencies. Not long ago, one of our recruiters presented two experienced CRAs to two of our clients, each for a role at a different company....
Resume Screening and the Maybe Pile
Every week, resumes come through our portal that might not survive a typical automated screen. Some are formatted the way resumes were formatted fifteen years ago. Others list duties and nothing else. And some leave out the keywords a hiring system looks for, or...
LinkedIn Work Experience When Careers Don’t Follow Rules
A man I am coaching right now has spent his entire career with one organization. He started as a CRA II at i3 in 2006, and he is still there today, at Syneos Health. But you wouldn't know it from his LinkedIn profile. When I first opened it, his LinkedIn work...
Roundtable: How to Tailor Your Resume Honestly
“Is it okay to rewrite my bullets for every job, or does that feel dishonest?” That question came up during one of our free Office Hours sessions, and it deserved more than a quick answer. Most coaches, recruiters, and hiring managers agree that each application needs...
How to Spot a Fake LinkedIn Profile
Last week, a professional reached out to me. Before I replied, I did what our team does with every profile we review. I ran his photo through Google Lens. His face came back on a profile that wasn't his. Same photo, someone else's name. Somewhere, a stranger was using...
LinkedIn About Section Examples for Clinical Research
The About section is the open text box near the top of your LinkedIn profile, right under your headline. It is the one place on your profile where you get to tell your own story in your own words, and this collection of LinkedIn About section examples shows what...
Roundtable: Resume Bullet Points: From Duties to Proof
Last month, a resume came through our portal from a Clinical Research Associate with four CRA positions on it. Under each position, she listed the same resume bullet points, word for word. Her resume gave our recruiters nothing to verify and no way to see what she had...
Resume and LinkedIn After a Career Break
Resume and LinkedIn: Taking time away from work is far more common than it feels. In my coaching sessions, I have seen a lot of people navigating long-term unemployment after a layoff. Therefore, I went digging for the data. It turns out that when a layoff ends a...
Roundtable: Am I Blacklisted From a Company?
When the applications go out but nothing comes back, the silence can start to feel personal. And then often a worry creeps in... am I blacklisted from a company? Or worse, have I been shut out of the whole industry without knowing it? The sweeping, industry-wide...
Presentation Interview Tips for CRAs
Presentation Interview: One of our clients asks every CRA who reaches the second interview to do something a little unexpected. They ask the candidate to create a short presentation and deliver it to the hiring team. For some candidates, that news may bring a wave of...
Roundtable: Your Employment Gap Isn’t the Problem
How to Explain an Employment Gap: A gap sits on your resume, and you feel it there, wondering how much it is costing you. You know that you have years of strong work behind you... But there is one stretch of time you aren't sure how to talk about. Today, we are...
LinkedIn for Job Seekers: Why It Now Decides Whether You Get Found
LinkedIn for Job Seekers: A few weeks ago, a man reached out to me on LinkedIn. His message was earnest... and honestly a little heartbreaking. He had been out of work for months; he was applying everywhere he could, and he asked if I could help him find a job. So I...
How to Explain an Employment Gap (Step by Step)
How to Explain an Employment Gap ...on Your Resume, LinkedIn, and in the Interview A gap in your work history can feel like the loudest thing on the page. It rarely is. A break of a few months or a few years doesn't erase decades of strong work, and most hiring...
Roundtable: Professional Summary for a CRA Resume
CRA Resume: You aren't getting callbacks. The interviews aren't coming... your applications get no response. And unfortunately, you receive silence instead of an explanation. You know the experience behind you is real, so something else is getting in the way before...
Are your CRA Applicants Lying to You? – A Checklist
CRA Applicants: You were trained to run trials, not to run fraud investigations as you search for CRA applicants. And yet, here you are. From what my team sees at intake, roughly 60% of CRA applicants have falsified all or part of their credentials, another 20% are...
Could Your Resume Bullet Points Be Sabotaging Your Interview Chances?
Resume Bullet Points: I am hearing this a lot in my webinars and office hours, and seeing it in my inbox: candidates just don't understand why, in today's job market, they can apply to dozens or hundreds of jobs but get no response. Not a rejection, certainly not a...
Roundtable: Why the Frustrating Job Application Steps?
Job Application Steps: The job application steps in today's hiring process can feel like pure busy work. You submitted your resume, then the application made you retype all of it, one field at a time. Then came a competency assessment before anyone would schedule an...
Signs You Need a Career Change
Career Change: Not every bad week at work means it's time for a career change. Sometimes you are burned out. Sometimes you are bored. And sometimes it is something bigger than either one, and knowing the difference is the whole game. After almost two decades placing...
Roundtable: No References? Here is What To Do
No References: Picture this. You have your LinkedIn buttoned up, your resume is ready, and you find the perfect part-time oncology gig. When you get on the call, everything is going great...until the recruiter asks about your references. And it lands with a thud. You...
No Application Responses? Start With Your Professional Summary
Professional Summary: You have sent out application after application. Maybe dozens. Maybe closer to a hundred. And what comes back is silence. After a while, the silence starts asking its own questions. Is it my age? Is it my experience? Am I overqualified? Let me...