There is also an influx of government money to help with this initiative, which is helping fuel the growth of job listings for these positions.  This provides an enormous opportunity for someone who either has prior experience in Clinical Data Management, or people with related experience.  Related experience can include anything from having worked in the medical field before, to have experience with data quality, data governance, master data management, or data warehousing.

The critical key is that you relate your prior experience to the job that you are applying for.  Generally, when you are applying, you will be provided with a job description.  It is imperative that you tailor not only your cover letter, but also your resume, so that you appear to be a perfect fit for the position. You are writing a custom, or at least semi-custom, cover letter for each job, right?

Tailoring your cover letter and resume means making sure you meet all of the ‘requirements’ as well as the ‘nice to haves’ in the job description.  Don’t lie… if you don’t have it, don’t make it up.  But, do be sure to think through all of your experience and ‘spin’ it so that it makes sense for what they are looking for.

In your interview, stress to the hiring managers that you are competent and able to complete the tasks that they have described.  It is always best to answer questions about your abilities by relating previous experience and education that you have.

Not only are there data management jobs in the medical arena, but also in the clinical trials and medical testing fields.  When applying, and interviewing, for jobs that have to do with clinical trials and medical testing, it is extremely important to emphasize your thoroughness and attention to detail.  Do this by explaining how you’ve done this in previous positions, have you’ve caught critical errors, fixed problems, had perfect reviews by auditors, and generally just saved the day.  The fields demand attention to detail and depend on your ability to keep perfect logs and ensure clean data.

The best places to look for these jobs appear to be Career Builder, Monster, and Craigslist.  There are some smaller job listing boards that come and go, so I would primarily focus and keep your eye on the big listing boards.  When you have exhausted all of the opportunities on those sites, target some specific large companies – they almost always have job listings on their own sites as well.  In addition to these jobs being hot, there are many other hot jobs such as roofing, cleaning, and others.  You can even get electrician training and start in a whole new career field.