Okay so I was away for 10 days with my family in Santa Cruz, California to see our families…not really a vacation and I really feel that I need a vacation from my vacation. I am so spoiled in traveling for work in that I am usually upgraded for all my flights, not that first class is any great shakes on USAir or any domestic U.S. airline. Was in coach with my wife and kids and the out bound flight was okay. BWI – LAS – SJC. The guys didn’t sleep from BWI to LAS but then crashed on the second flight to SJC. Coming home thought, what a drag. First USAir screwed us. I used one of those buy one get 2 tickets for $99 and then used miles for the fourth ticket. Okay so again outbound Baltimore, Vegas, San Jose. Fine. Home the guy tells me San Jose, Phoenix, Baltimore. Well I made a rookie mistake and didn’t look carefully at the times. I should have realized that there was something funny with the return flight times. Funny alright, the flight from Phoenix to Baltimore stopped back in Vegas. What a drag. Well we made it.
Great news! I was accepted in to Graduate School at University of Maryland. So this fall I start the Doctor of Management program. Three years from now Doctor Stagnaro. It is going to be a hard three years but will be worth it. Part of the program is a research project and fine is going to be the development of Bachelor in Science Clinical Research Associate program. With so many CRA jobs out there I think this program will be super successful. Had an interesting conversation with a friend who works at Georgetown and pitched my idea to her. She loved the ideas but stated that GU would never go for it because GU doesn’t “teach a job”. So I guess that Nursing, Medicine and Law, all degrees with teach people skills to have jobs in those field are much more important then clinical research. Well their loss. I am sure the parents of all those students coming out of GU with a BS and then working at Starbucks while moving back home are just thrilled to have shelled out $100,000 for that. My program would give them a marketable skill and a $60,000 a year job right out of the chute and they will be at $100,000 with in 5 years. Let’s see any other Bachelor’s program provide that.
As you know from looking at the website I have so many open clinical research jobs that I struggle to fill every day. So again if Google routed you here because you searched CRA jobs and you have at least 6 months CRA experience with a CRO or Pharma firm please email me your CV. As for everyone else, foreign MDs, lab techs, coordinators, to name a few, I really can’t help you. You can continue to email me your CV but they all end up in the trash.
Speaking of unqualified candidates, can some one who has attended the Krieger institute in Canada email me. I am very interested in this firm. I receive lots of CV from people who have taken this program. I really think they are being sold a lot of smoke and mirrors. Just because you have six months “experience” at Krieger that doesn’t translate into six months industry experience. I emailed them a few months ago and played the dumb new college grad and tried to find out what their story was. To their credit they didn’t make my any promised via email but they claim to have job placement on their website. Very curious what firms would take someone with this “experience”. None of my firms would. So if you are thinking about paying for this type of training I would suggest you don’t. If you are an American citizen and have a bachelor’s of Science just apply to any of the big CROs directly. Get six months of monitoring experience and then contact me and I will move your career up.
Enough for now. All my best to you all.
Doug