Biostatisticians

Definitely brush up on the biostats terminology and how you can apply old skills into this new role. Research the job description and make sure to bring up how you have some of the required skills before even if they were not in biostats. In some instances, having some code prepared can be helpfu...

I think this is definitely direct employer/department-dependent but for me it was a lot of running and annotating code. We worked with large cardiovascular clinical trials which had massive amounts of data. Our supervisors would ask for weekly and monthly reports which we had to annotate each tim...

Meeting with study team to make decisions about data collection and analysis, creating dataset specifications (a document that explains how raw variables changed or altered in order to do analysis, variables are changed in terms of formats labels and algorithms), and coding in SAS to make derived...