Greater Salt Lake City Chapter: How to Make Soft Skills Your Superpower (ACRP 2024 Conference Replay)
This event will be presenting a webinar replay from the ACRP Conference Library
Event Description:
When thinking of career progression, many clinical research professionals focus on their options and needs for obtaining an advanced degree, getting certified, and networking efficiently in the field.
Enhancing your technical and scientific knowledge within the clinical research space is important, but often individuals overlook that last part or underestimate how important it is to also improve their soft skills—the ones that make or break your success at dealing with “person-to-person” interactions on a daily basis.
Possessing effective soft skills can be your superpower when it comes to winning a promotion or landing a new position. In fact, Harvard University led a study with the Carnegie Foundation and Stanford Research Center which showed 85% of job success comes from having well-developed soft skills.
Hiring statistics from one placement service show that only 15% to 20% of candidates placed are a perfect match for a position’s hard skill requirements. With such an emphasis on the importance of soft skills, this webinar provided attendees with tools to assess the maturity of their soft skills. The speaker discussed developmental tasks attendees can employ to strengthen or enhance those that may be weak.
Speaker:
Angela Roberts, Head of Recruiting Operations, craresources
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the “not so obvious” reasons soft skills are critical in being an effective clinical researcher.
- Use available resources to assess soft skill strengths and weaknesses.
- Explore developmental tasks to enhance or mature your soft skills.
Registration & Contact Hour Information:
- Chapter Member (registration with or without contact hours): $0
- ACRP Member (registration only): $15
- ACRP Member (registration + contact hours): $30
- Non-Member (registration only): $30
- Non-Member (registration + contact hours): $60
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