Seven Tips For Hiring And Retaining Top CRO Talent

What makes a CRO successful? While experience, speed, and customer service are certainly important characteristics, CRO leadership looks to their teams of highly skilled employees to drive both growth and repeat business. These top performers represent CROs in pivotal trials across the globe, leveraging their roles and responsibilities to deliver clinical trials on time and on budget.

But locating, hiring, and retaining top talent in the hyper-competitive clinical trials industry is not an easy task. “It’s a highly specialized industry,” said Cathy Gooch, Senior VP of People and Culture at Biorasi. “And the demand for top CRO talent is notoriously high, increasingly outpacing both the supply of qualified candidates and the needs of clinical trial sponsors.”

These and other obstacles to hiring within the clinical research industry can turn talent acquisition into a significant challenge for today’s recruiters and potential candidates. So what steps need to be taken to hire the best and brightest?