How to Prepare for a Research Assistant Interview | Biomedical Research Assistant Job Applications
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- How to Prepare for a Research Assistant Interview | Biomedical Science Research Assistant Job Applications 🥼🎙
Hello everyone, I hope you're doing well! Previously on this channel, I've made videos on how to write a CV and cover letter for a Biomedical Research Assistant (RA) position. To wrap up this little job application series, I thought it'd be fitting to do an interview preparation video.
In this video, I talk about the purpose of an interview, types of RA interviews in academia vs industry, what to research about the employer, potential questions to expect, and how to answer them. I hope you find this helpful and best of luck in your job application process!
Disclaimer: I am not part of any admissions team; all of what I'm saying is based on my personal opinions and experience.
⏳ Time stamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:38 - Purpose of an interview
01:13 - Types of interviews
01:37 - Academia interviews
02:55 - Industry application process & interviews
04:30 - Research the employer
06:45 - Experience-based questions
07:28 - Knowledge / critical-thinking-based questions
09:01 - Aspirations / career-based questions
09:49 - Situational questions
10:29 - Thanks for watching :)
🔗 References:
Cambridge career advice - www.careers.cam.ac.uk/interviews
Indeed RA interview tips - uk.indeed.com/career-advice/i...
Psychometric tests - www.prospects.ac.uk/careers-a...
Networking & personal experience
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👩🏻🔬 About me:
Hello 👋 My name's Vy and I make videos about pursuing an education and career in STEM 🔬 I'm currently working as a research assistant in Cambridge and studied biomedical science in the UK 🇬🇧 Science aside, I really enjoy all things creative arts 🎨 This channel is also a place for me to document the little joys in my every day life and my travel adventures 🌎
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This video was entirely filmed and edited on my phone.
Thank you for the great advice! I used your video for my interview preparation, and was just offered a research assistant role at my university!!
so glad I could help, congratulations! 🥳
thank you for this vidoe. I have an interview for a potential summer placement and this video has helped me prepare.
This was so useful for me, I am not at al in the medical sciences field, but going for a research assistant job in social sciences, but it was still super interesting to know what kinds of questions might pop up!
I'm glad that it was translatable and you found it helpful! 😊😊
Thank you so much i was tensed as i hv an interview for the research assistant tomorrow this information gave me confidence to move ahead ❤
I’m currently preparing for an interview for junior RA , your video helps me a lot !!!
Great 💙.i'm your great fan from now Mem.
Thank you for the intelligent tips 🎉
this video came in the perfect time for me, i'm preparing for a interviw in a virology lab on tuesday! thank you for the information :)
All the best! 😊
this was so good
I’m gonna have an interview in a couple of days for a postgraduate associate position at one of the ivy league’s uni’s, which is amazing yet a bit intimidating. They asked me to prepare a 15 min presentation about my research experience and future plans. On their website it was stated that the position is for one year with a possibility of a renewal. I mentioned in my application that I intent to apply for a PhD this up coming fall. In US the application process takes a year, so it fits. So it’s okay if I will mention that during the interview, right? I want to take my masters thesis presentation and adapt it. Hope it will be okay. Sorry, just texting it here cuz I’m both nervous and excited and I finally saw someone in my field in a top university here on TH-cam haha! You are amazing!!!!!
this is undergrad internship research training. so i don’t think they’ll ask such knowledge based because they’re going to train us
Your video came at the right time as i have an interview in 3 days with a canadian researcher (im streeessseeeed, but seeing you talk about it so calmly reassured me. It's nice to receive advice from a woman in stem too ! ). Lot of love from France
You’ve absolutely got this, hope it went well! Seeing this comment made me so happy and it’s great meeting a fellow woman in STEM 😊
What’s the difference between an academic and industry research assistant position? I’m applying to a RA job at my local hospital as an undergrad medical student
I have my interview schedule on 31 March for the Junior research assistant in field of pathology what question should I prepare myself for.
Job description involve pharmacokinetics drug lab
Is it possible to get any research related part time jobs while being an undergrad student
It's possible to apply for UROPs or email individual professors to see if they are willing to host an undergrad. There are also easter/summer internships you can apply to in larger biopharmas/institutions, keep in mind that these deadlines tend to be quite early!
Loved the video, what kind of questions did you ask your interviewer?
thank you!! sometimes I'd ask about in vivo work (cause I don't feel very comfortable working with mice) and also how the pandemic has impacted their work (I started 2021) to see how they adapted their experiments/research
@@biomedwithvy ahhh okay, I have an interview with Cambridge uni as a research assistant which would involve a lot of in-vivo work if I did get the job 😳
Can you help to choose bio medical science or nursing which is good??🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 I’m so confused 😕