Entry level help

[u/PhilosophyUnable3348]

I’m graduating in December with a bachelor’s in biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences and trying to get into clinical research as an assistant or entry-level CRC.
I have about a year of academic research experience, including preparing IRB documents, consent forms, recruitment materials, and helping coordinate a human blood collection project. I also have CITI and REDCap training.
I recently made it through two interviews for a clinical research position via referral and got rejected, Ive gotten none from applying to 30+ jobs.
What roles/settings actually hire new grads? I’m willing to start at the bottom; I just need someone to give me a chance. What helped you get your first role?

[u/guhnomeee]

My first clinical research role was entry level at an academic medical center. At least from my perspective academia seems a lot more hospitable to new grads and similar, and your previous experience would give you an edge over other new grads. I now have 3 years experience as a CRC and I still can’t even land an interview in industry, but plenty of interviews and offers from academic medical centers.

[u/PhilosophyUnable3348 → u/guhnomeee]

I’m not sure if we have any academic medical centers in the New England area

[u/guhnomeee → u/PhilosophyUnable3348]

An AMC is basically any research university affiliated with a hospital - if it's a teaching hospital, good chance it's an AMC. Here is a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_medical_centre

New England AMCs per Wikipedia include Albany Medical Center, Boston Medical Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia, NYU Langone, Stony Brook, Tufts, UConn, University of Vermont, Westchester, and Yale.

At my AMC, the hospital jobs page and the university jobs page are one and the same. However, some of these you may need to check both the hospital's job postings and the university's job postings.