Learn
Start from the role, not from a course catalogue.
- Target role broken into named capability domains
- Recommended learning plan built from the identified gaps
- Self-paced study, structured cohorts or coached delivery
Workforce capability infrastructure for life sciences
Build the capability.Prove the work.Hire on evidence.
One connected platform for clinical research professionals who need to show what they can do, and for the teams who need better evidence before they hire.
Learn: Role requirements are defined and the gaps are named.
One connected record, from first gap to hiring decision.
Built by someone who has done the work
Fifteen years in clinical research. Three hundred careers moved.
Wonja was built by Rudy Malle, a clinical operations professional who has worked across trial sites, CROs and global pharmaceutical companies, as a Clinical Research Coordinator, CRA, Lead CRA, Project Manager and Director. The assessment model is new. The domain expertise behind it is not.
Q-IAOCR, Internationally Qualified Clinical Research Trainer · CPCC, Certified Professional Career Coach (PARWCC)
- Documented placements
- 300+Documented placements
- Offer rate
- 89%Offer rate
- Professionals following the work on LinkedIn
- 40K+Professionals following the work on LinkedIn
- Subscribers to Clinical Research Space
- 24K+Subscribers to Clinical Research Space
Outcomes
Professionals we have supported now work across the industry.
Site coordinators, monitors, project managers and directors, placed into academic medical centres, global CROs, biotech and large pharmaceutical sponsors.
Academic medical centres
Investigator sites running sponsor and federally funded trials.
Global CROs
Monitoring, project management and clinical operations roles.
Biotech
Emerging sponsors building first clinical operations teams.
Large pharmaceutical sponsors
Sponsor-side study management and oversight roles.
Our graduates work at
Employers of program graduates from YANA Careers, now Wonja Academy. Logos do not imply partnership, endorsement or affiliation.
Track record at a glance
- Documented placements
- 300+Documented placementsConfirmed roles, counted once per person
- In clinical research
- 15 yrsIn clinical researchSite, CRO and sponsor side
- Employer categories
- 4Employer categoriesSites, CROs, biotech, pharma
- Graduate destinations
- 19Graduate destinationsEmployers shown in the row above
How we count outcomes
- Reported by the professional
- A placement is recorded when the person tells us they accepted a role.
- Confirmed before counting
- We count it once the role, employer and start are confirmed with them directly.
- Counted once
- One person, one placement. Later moves are not added to the total.
- Category, not endorsement
- Employer type is taken from the employer itself. No partnership is implied.
We publish no placement rate, salary figure or time-to-hire claim, because we cannot confirm those for every professional we have supported.
Outcomes reflect professionals supported through Rudy Malle's prior clinical research coaching work. Employer categories are shown for context and do not indicate partnership, endorsement or affiliation with Wonja.
The signal problem
Readiness is still judged by proxy.
Life-sciences teams make consequential workforce decisions on documents that were never designed to show capability.
Today
- Resumes and job titles stand in for readiness.
- Certificates record attendance, not demonstrated capability.
- Learning, assessment and hiring sit in disconnected tools.
- Every candidate is read against a different yardstick.
With Wonja
- Role requirements are defined as capability domains.
- Capability is built against those named requirements.
- Practical work is assessed against a published rubric.
- Decisions read one consistent, reviewed record.
One continuous system
Five stages. One capability record.
Most organisations already run pieces of this: a training library here, an interview exercise there, a spreadsheet holding the result. Wonja runs them as one sequence, so what a professional learns, practises and demonstrates all lands in the same record and can be read the same way months later.
Practice
Rehearse the judgement before anything counts.
- Task-based practice drawn from real role activity
- Nothing from practice reaches the evidence record
- Rubric criteria visible while practising
Advance
Scored casebooks that ask how the work would be done.
- Published rubric applied consistently across candidates
- Domain-level scoring rather than one overall grade
- Documented assessor review on every scored submission
Verify
Reviewed work becomes a record with a stated boundary.
- Built only from work completed and reviewed inside Wonja
- Issue, expiry and revocation status on every record
- Framework version recorded so results stay readable later
Impact
Comparable evidence at the point of decision.
- Consistent candidate comparison across a defined role
- Talent pipelines built on demonstrated readiness
- Development directed at the domains still unproven
Two sides, one record
The same evidence serves both decisions.
A professional building a career and an employer building a team are asking versions of the same question: what can this person actually do in this role. Wonja answers it once, in a form both sides can read.
Show what you can do, not only where you have been.
- Find the pathway that fits your background and target role
- Close the gaps that role names, in a defined order
- Demonstrate readiness through scored, reviewed casebooks
Make workforce decisions on consistent evidence.
- Define the capability a role genuinely requires
- Compare people on the same domains and rubric version
- Build pipelines around demonstrated readiness, not keywords
Modular platform
Adopt the connected workflow, or start with one module.
The four modules run on one pathway and share one record, but none of them requires the others to be useful on day one. Labs is the assessment engine that produces evidence. Passport is the outcome of that reviewed evidence, not a separate claim layered on top.
Infrastructure and trust
Assessment infrastructure you can inspect.
Evidence is only worth as much as the process behind it. Wonja publishes how assessments are scored, who reviews them, how records change over time and, just as importantly, where the boundary of a Wonja record sits.
Published rubrics
Criteria written before assessment, applied the same to every submission.
Versioned frameworks
Every framework carries a version, so older records stay readable.
Documented human review
An assessor reviews scored work, and that review is retained.
Record lifecycle
Issue date, expiry and revocation status on every Wonja record.
Wonja verifies
- Assessed, rubric-aligned work completed inside Wonja
- The domains demonstrated and the framework version applied
- That a documented human review took place
- The current status of a Wonja-issued record
Wonja does not verify
- Identity, licensure or regulatory standing
- Employment history, references or resume claims
- Certificates issued by other organisations
- Future job performance or hiring outcomes
Sample screens and data shown across this site are illustrative. They are not real candidate records.
Questions
Straight answers.
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Two ways in.
For professionals
Find the pathway that fits your background, and the first action that actually moves you toward it.
Take the diagnosticFor employers and workforce teams
See how role requirements, assessed evidence and the comparison view work against a live role on your team.
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