CRA COMPASS
CRA Compass is the best way to plan your personalized career development, gain new skills, track your progress and advance with confidence into your future.
This comprehensive, customizable toolkit features all of the resources, information and guidance you need to find your direction and get where you want to go with PPD.
The CRA Experience at PPD
Throughout your career journey as a CRA with PPD, you’ll enjoy the excitement of being part of the pharma industry and the stability of a world-class CRO. Gaining broad experience, you’ll have a front seat to the drug-development process at the study level, from start to finish, idea to cure. In between, you’ll partner with talented people in medical, marketing and sales to help us make safe, effective treatments accessible to patients around the globe.
Given the considerable scope and complexity of our client trials, as well as the breadth and depth of our organization, your career journey may take you far and wide across PPD. Along the way, you’ll enjoy a wide array of opportunities to gain new skills and build the capabilities to realize your most important current and future career aspirations.
Use This Toolkit to Grow Your Career
CRA Compass is designed to help you create a plan and set goals for your development. Use it to foster your personal and professional growth, inspire exploration and deeper learning, and increase your awareness of the many opportunities available to our CRAs. As you gain additional skills, you can apply what you’ve learned to new areas of PPD.
Plan your development
Determine how you can advance and get where you want to go.
- Create a strategy and set goals for your professional growth.
- Learn about and employ additional resources to reach your objectives.
- Adjust your plans as your interests and abilities become more focused.
Track your progress
Measure and share progress against your plan and goals in your regular one-to-one discussions with your manager.
- Track the development of your competencies, skills and capabilities.
- Measure your success against your Connect for Success business & development goals.
Visit Mosaic Career Development - Describe your experiences and update your CV to share with resourcing. CV Guidance
gain new skills
Find learning opportunities and gain skills and experience to meet your goals.
- Find learning opportunities that match your goals.
Learn more - Target projects and opportunities that broaden your skills and experience.
- Find a mentor and experience-based learning opportunities.
Learn more - Go to the Clinical Operations Opportunities Marketplace site to learn about and participate in global Clinical Operations opportunities.
Learn more - Visit the ACRP site for access to best practices, trends, an e-learning library and educational webinars by research-thought leaders.
See it now. - Need to gain better understanding of a therapeutic area for new project assignment? Looking to brush up on your therapeutic area skills for a current study or expand your knowledge in therapeutic areas where you lack experience?
What you’ll find here
To ensure that you get the most from CRA Compass, we offer a set of customizable resources you can use to stay informed, challenged and engaged in your CRA career. Learn more here:
Tell us what you think
Just like you, PPD is on a learning curve as we launch this new toolkit. Once you’ve explored the details, please tell us what you like about it and where we might improve. We’ll use your input to make refinements.