Transform Your Hiring Process

As the drug development industry strives to meet the hiring requirements of clinical research professionals in the current workforce climate, recruiters and hiring managers are facing unique hurdles. COVID-19 sparked a shift in the workforce’s expectations: top candidates with clinical research backgrounds are now looking for greater flexibility and hybrid work options. Sponsors are seeking experienced employees that will be committed for the long-term and ideally, for the duration of a trial. Navigating these shifts in workplace culture takes agility and an individualized approach from talent acquisition teams.

Strategies to improve employee retention and mitigate turnover are vital to ensuring the continuity and success of a clinical trial. Firms must strive to maintain a project’s timeline and alleviate or reduce costs associated with backfilling and re-training replacement employees. In some cases, the global regulatory agencies may recognize high personnel turnover throughout a trial as a risk to data integrity, thus jeopardizing chances for drug approval. Download the full article to learn more about how working with a functional service provider (FSP) throughout the life span of your trial can help build a high-quality clinical research team that will stay the course from ‘molecule to market.’