Quick process spoke to a recruiter then interview next with a managers. General CRA questions nothing too difficult. Be able to break down RECIST if applying to a oncology role.
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Parexel (London, England) in June 2011
Interview
The interview was a face-to-face interview with an Associate Director, a Line Manager and the HR Manager. It was a friendly atmosphere. The interview began initially with questions about my past roles etc followed by a series of competency/behavioural type questions. There must have been at least 20 such questions. You have to support each question with an example of an incident or situation which had taken place and how you dealt with it or what you learnt from it. It was quite challenging having to relate a different scenario for each question but the interviewers were very encouraging and helpful; they prompted me to use a previous scenario for some of the questions when I drew a blank at some questions. At the end of the interview which lasted a good 2 hours, I had to complete a test on a laptop. The test consisted of questions relating to pharmaceutical drug research, systems and processes as well as your writing skills.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Give us an example of a communication which went wrong and how did you deal with it or what did you learn from it?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Parexel in Dec 2022
Interview
I was referred by a candidate, then had a phone screen with a recruiter. Within 2-3 weeks I had a 1 hour video interview with a hiring manager covering basic monitoring questions. Questions ranged from monitoring to behavioral questions to why I was leaving. Then I was offered an interview with a current employee in the CRA role to ask about their experience.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic monitoring questions, why I was leaving current company, what I was looking for in next company etc
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Parexel in June 2021
Interview
I had 1 hour interview scheduled and it went really smooth with department's senior manager. Just one round of interview was taken and rest discussion with HR and documents submission. Overall it was a great experience as many organisations conducts multiple rounds of interview and waste their as well candidate's time and mostly don't even give feedback once they reject you.