Afleveringen
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In this episode (our last episode of 2024) Jim and Lauren talk about highlights for this year. We are amazed that we have released 40 episodes this year… As we wrap up 2024, we thought it would be valuable to reflect on our podcast over the last year covering points such as these below. We hope you enjoy listening!
- We didn’t wait for this to be perfect, we tried and improved over time
- Podcast listener demographics
- Top episodes based upon plays
- Our favorite episodes
- Our most challenging episodes to do
- Our favorite questions
- Surprises
- Lessons learned
- Thoughts for our 2025 podcast
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on references. References are an important part of the interview process for both academic and non-academic career areas and sometimes there is confusion about how to approach this. We cover points in this episode such as these below. We hope you enjoy listening!
- What are references
- Why have references
- Who do you pick as references
- Importance of tailoring references for the role you are interviewing for
- You should give references a heads up that they may be contacted
- What types of questions are references asked
- When you are asked for reference, does this mean that you will be getting an offer
- How organizations reachout to references
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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As 2024 starts to come to close, Jim and Lauren focus this episode on giving gratitude and a few ways to express this including these points below. We hope you enjoy listening!
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
- Why is it important to give thanks
- Way to give thanks
- Ways to update your network with your progress over the year
- Appreciate how you have grown
- What we are thankful for
- Special thanks to Ayo (Lauren's nephew) who painted a picture in 2023 when he was 6 that is the podcast logo
- How we have been thanked
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In this episode, Jim and Lauren talk about skill building. We touch on where we are at with our own skill building and advice for people who want to expand their skillset. We would also like to bust a few myths since one of the reasons we started this podcast was to myth bust! We would like to incorporate more of these in 2025. Hope you enjoy listening!
Focus areas:
- Why is skill building important?
- How do we approach building skills
- Get outside of your comfort zone every to help you grow.
- Skills we have been building and looking to build
- Focus on building upon strengths that you do have
- The importance of organizational behavior
- When can you stop building skills?
- We bust the myth that if you do too long of a postdoc, you are not attractive to industry
- We bust the myth that you should only build skills that “look good”
- We then talk about a few skills that are useful to build
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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Welcome to Propelling Careers podcast episode 36. This week (Nov 13-16 2024), Lauren is at the ABRCMS conference in Pittsburgh PA. She gave a talk on Nov 15th on The state of the industry job market: opportunities, challenges, and strategies for success. We thought it could be worthwhile to talk about this topic in our podcast today. ABRCMS stands for the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists. ABRCMS has been the go-to conference for underrepresented community college, undergraduate and postbaccalaureate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As ABRCMS has continued to grow and evolve, it has also become a space for graduate students, postdocs, faculty, program administrators and more.
We talk a little about Pittsburgh (Jim’s home-town)
We talk a little about the ABRCMS conference
Lauren talked about her talk at the ABRCMS conference on The state of the industry job market: opportunities, challenges, and strategies for success
So much flux right now in the industry – funding challenges, reorganizations, layoffs, etc
Fierce Biotech has a tracker to keep track of all of these layoffs
Is this current flux a normal part of the system?
Fundraising has been challenging leading to reorgs and layoffs across the industry
We cover a few areas of growth in the industry
We cover how to use this information for your job search
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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Welcome to Propelling Careers podcast episode 35. In this episode, Jim and Lauren provide insight on how to decipher job descriptions. We know this is challenging and we know it is often confusing to know what an organization is actually looking for in a candidate. We cover topics like these below. We hope you enjoy listening!
- Most job desc’s cover at least four big picture things – company desc, technical skills, soft (transferrable) skills, and description of role. Some also include preferred skills/experiences
- A candidate should do additional research outside of just looking at the job desc
- Sometimes a character limit is advised on the job desc which is why some are shorter
- Sometimes technical skills are listed as a list, sometimes these are given with more context so you can understand more what the org is looking for
- Sometimes orgs are vague on what they are looking for since they want to be discrete on what they are doing (to keep things confidential)
- Many orgs try to make job descriptions more approachable – i.e. less gender focused.
- Examples of different types of descriptions of organizations and what this means
- Translating your technical skills into “industry speak”
- Pay attention to words on job desc’s like exploratory biology, preclinical, manufacturing, etc - in many job descriptions, lingo’s are used and sometimes these lingo’s are important to describe the setting of the role, org, or opportunity
- Transferrable skills are often mentioned in the job description and these are important to pay attention to. We provide a few tips to highlight your transferrable skills in your application materials.
- Education required in the job desc depends upon role – many orgs want to be inclusive so many list minimum requirements to be inclusive
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In this episode, Jim and I provide advice, including these topics below, to follow up from your networking interactions. We hope you enjoy listening!
Advice to keep notes of what you talked about during interactions Have a professional permanent email Tailor follow up When to follow up after networking interactions Be specific in your subject lines / body of emails How do you keep on a person’s radar after the initial follow up We share a few reasons to follow up The importance of being organized to help with your follow up Leverage LinkedIn post feature and other tools as a way to follow up Leverage informational interviews for followups When you reachout, include verifiable information Do not overwhelm the person you are reaching out to Leverage points of commonality in your followups A few things that you should not do while following upLauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In this episode, Jim and Lauren cover tips to help you network more effectively by deescalating the networking process. In a professional setting, networking happens all the time. Every time you interact with people, you are networking. We hope that our tips can help lessen the stress and anxiety of networking. We hope you enjoylistening!
Networking does not have to be a do or die situation - It’s just a conversation Networking does not always have immediate results, but networking on a routine bases will have fruits that develop overtime. You are planting seeds each time you are networking. Don’t just network with “famous” people. Many types of people / backgrounds of people can be valuable as you network We share a few tips to make a memorable / lasting impression Develop and practice your elevator pitch - keep it short and simple to help it be approachable Following up is important (we cover more of this in episode 34) A few tips to open conversations (and end them) Finding points of commonality to help with connections Tips for extroverts and introverts as they network A few pointers to get over your fear of networkingLauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In this episode, Jim and Lauren thought we would address a few questions that have come up often in the last few weeks from people reaching out to us. These questions have been focused mostly on applying to roles and process for organizations reviewing resumes. Points we cover include these below. Perhaps some of you listening also have wondered about these questions too. We hope you enjoy listening!
Can I apply to a job if so many people have already applied on LinkedIn Should I apply to a job on LinkedIn or on the company website Timeframes / process for reviewing applications Importance of being patient Should I message the person who posted the role on LinkedIn? If a role is up for a long time, is it still active and should I still apply? Importance of tailor your applications If you apply first to a role, does this give you an advantage? Thoughts on how many people apply who are actually a fit for roles? Organizations sometimes proactively engage with talent for rolesLauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In the last few weeks, Jim and I have received a number of questions from graduate students about whether or not to do a postdoc, so we thought we would devote an episode to this important topic. It’s not a simple yes/no answer - there is a lot to consider including these points below, when you are making this choice. We hope you enjoylistening!
Why would someone do a postdoc? What skills you are looking/need to build (hard and soft skills) What type of institution Choice of Mentor Type of postdoc, Academic research, academic administrative, Teaching, Industry research, Industry non-research, AAAS, etc How long should someone do a postdoc?Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In our last episode, episode 29, we talked a bit about considerations people have as they evaluate career options. In this episode, we continue on this topic and talk about a few others including these below. We also cover a few points on how to stay motivated in your search knowing all the decision points/considerations involvedin career choices. There can be roadblocks and barriers as you explore options and as you evaluate decisions and sometimes this leads people to have a fear of missing out which could paralyze their decision making. Job searching can be mentally challenging - it is hard not hearing back, it is hard not getting an offer after going through interviews. We hope this episode helps and that you enjoy listening!
Also, we hit a milestone, we now have >1,000 episode listens. We thank you all for taking time to engage with this podcast!
Evaluating a larger company vs a new startup – what is the right choice? Other considerations besides just size of company as you consider career opportunities Importance of a supportive boss and culture match Culture can change over time – a few thoughts to think about Balancing innovation vs working in an established field / area A few thoughts on getting comfortable leavingthe known for the unknown A few tips on how to stay motivated in your search
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice.Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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Welcome to Propelling Careers podcast episode 29. In our last episode, we talked a bit about trends we are paying attention to in our sectors and in this episode we thought we would follow up to talk about what we are hearing from talent who are exploring career options and trying to navigate this environment. Jim is hearing a lot from people about questions regarding the academic search - how to be prepared, identify opportunities, identify application materials, funding, how to be successful once you are a PI, etc. Lauren is hearing a lot from people who have been recently laid off and are trying to navigate their career search. She is also hearing from grad students and postdocs who feel nervous since they hear about their friends in industry being laid off and wonder about their prospects. She is also hearing a lot of questions from people in industry and also in academia who apply and never hear back – they are wondering why and what can they do to stand out. We will share some concerns and questions such as these below. Many of you listening might have similar questions / concerns as younavigate your future. We hope you enjoy listening!
How to prepare for the academic job search / interview / evaluation process If you are new to the job market, how do you start the job application process What do you say/how do you state things, if you have been laid off How can you stand out? Positives thoughts about prospects for grad students / postdocs Importance of emphasizing your passion/enthusiasmfor roles you are interested in to help them stand out Focus on transferrable skills Tailor your application materials Empower people to help you in the search A few thoughts on how to compare offers to make sure you are comparing apples to apples ? How to evaluate risk of choosing one career option vs another – are doors really closed if you choose one area over another? What are considerations for joining different sizes or stages of companies Importance of documenting what you are looking in a role to help you with the fear of missing out What are considerations around choosing to accept offers including culture match, programs you would work on, compensation, growth opportunities, manager style and support, perks, etc Stability of career areas Ensure your materials are always ready to be prepared for opportunitiesLauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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Since Labor Day just happened, Jim and Lauren thought we would do a check in episode as we get ready for the remainder of the year to check in on this year and what’s in store for the next few months for both of us. We also cover a few trends/data we are paying attention to relevant to our work such as the Inflation reduction act’s (IRA’s) impact on life sciences, Immigration, and the NIH’ work on revisioning the postdoc. Labor day seems to be the official end of summer, so now things kick into high gear as we finish off 2024. We hope you enjoy listening!
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In this episode, Jim and Lauren discuss cover letters, since so many people have questions on these. Are they useful, does anyone read them, how do I tailor them, what if there is no space to include them, then how do I include it in the application, and so on and so on. A few people have reached out to us with questions about this topic recently, including these below, so we decided to record a podcast to cover our thoughts. We hope you enjoy listening!
Why have a cover letter - what is the purpose? Do people actually read cover letters? What to include in a cover letter? How long should a cover letter be? How do you tailor a cover letter? Is there anything you should not include in a cover letter Who do i address it to? Are cover letters more important for certain types of roles How do I include one, if there is no place in the application to include one What are some common or unforced errors? Effective strategies to develop your cover letterLauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In this episode, Jim and I bust a few myths that we have seen online, or that people have mentioned to us directly regarding career advice. One of the reasons why we started this podcast is to have a reliable and good source of truth regarding career advice. There is so much advice out there that is not good…. that people seem to follow. Through this podcast we want to be a trusted resource for people to access. We know we may have our own biases when it comes to advice, but we are using our collective almost 30 years of experience providing career focused advice to thousands of people. In this episode, we explain why the advice, including these topics below, is not good advice to provide context to help all of you. We hope you enjoy listening!
Changing your actual title name to match what industry is looking for in titles Removing your Ph.D. from your resume so you don’t look overqualified Having a max character limit for your resume such as 250-600 words Sending a vague resume when you apply for a role since the recruiter will ask for the detailed one if they are interested Focusing on developing too specific of a network as you job searchLauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In this episode, Jim and Lauren talk about how to engage with people like Jim who run postdoc office and the officein general. We have received a number of questions about this topic, so we decided to record a podcast to help others make the most of their interactions at their respective institutions. Jim has a lot of experience, more than 13 years in his role, so he has a lot of insights to share! We talk about a few items such as these below. We hope you enjoy listening!
Types of services that offices like Jim’s offers When should talent engage with offices like his How can someone engage with offices like his Do people need to prepare anything to interact with offices like Jim’s What are best practices to make the most of engagement with offices like Jim’s Does Jim create new offerings as needed to serve additional needs that he sees? How postdocs can be empowered through interaction with offices like Jim’s What should you not do when interacting with people like Jim and their office?Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In this episode, Jim and Lauren talk about how to engage with recruiters. We have received a number of questions about this topic, so we decided to record a podcast to help others make the most of their interactions with recruiters. Lauren leverages her recruiting experience (about 15 years) to demystify the world of recruiting. We talk about a few items such as these below. We hopeyou enjoy listening!
What types of recruiters exist What are the differences between internalrecruiters who work for an organization and external recruiters who work for a recruiting firm that works with organizations to hire Are external recruiters the same as Headhunters Who do recruiters work closely with in organizations they are hiring for Are external recruiters like sports agents – how do they engage with candidates Who do external recruiters work on behalf of How to find relevant recruiters How can you tell if a recruiter is legit Should you engage with multiple external recruiters Responding to internal recruiter or external recruiter reachout What kind of insights can recruiters provideLauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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Welcome to Propelling Careers podcast episode 23. In this episode, Jim and Lauren continue the theme of flags similar to episodes 19, 20, 21, and 22. Will talk about a few more scenarios relating to networking, resumes, job searching, and interviewing. We have been enjoying putting these together, so we thought we would have one last one to wrap up the flags theme for right now.
For context, in case you have not listened to episodes 19, 20, 21, or 22 a Red Flag could refer to something that means stop, leave immediately - really not a good thing. A Yellow Flag could mean warning, slow down, you may want to investigate further; a Green Flag means proceed and a Beige flag could refers to a strange or odd behavior or item that catches someone off guard but typically don't hurt anything. A beige flag is neither good nor bad, but it does draw attention. We hope you find our insights helpful as you navigate these different scenarios. We hope you enjoy listening
Scenario: Only having 1 resume. (To dive deeper intoresumes, Episodes 12, 13, 14 focus on this)
Scenario - not having a google doc or word version of your resume
Scenario: How you list dates on your resume
Scenario: Applying only to roles where you know someone at the organization.
Scenario: only using one source to search for roles
Scenario: Not aligning your responses to what the interviewer is asking about
Scenario: Interview questions not to ask first
Scenario: How to respond when you hear you are not being offered the job
Scenario: being short with people when networking
Scenario: not having a LinkedIn profile that accurately reflects your interests and experiences
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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In this podcast episode Jim and Lauren talk about flags in the context of networking. We talk about a few scenarios, including these listed below, in order to provide context to help all of you navigate networking situations. By networking, we are referring to situations such as networking events, informational interviewing, and also email networking. For context, in case you did not listen to episodes 19, 20, or 21 a Red Flag could refer to something that means stop, leave immediately - reallynot a good thing. A Yellow Flag could mean warning, slow down, you may want to investigate further; a Green Flag means proceed and a Beige flag could refers to a strange or odd behavior or item that catches someone off guard but typically don't hurt anything. A beige flag is neither good nor bad, but it does draw attention. We hope you enjoy listening!
Scenario: Single minded networker
Scenario: putting your stress or time crunch on someone else
Scenario: Not having a clear elevator pitch
Scenario: Not following up after someone made a referral connection for you
Scenario: not empowering people to help you
Scenario: Expecting ROI quickly
Scenario: Not being clear enough with Email networking
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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This episode will continue from episode 20 since we have so many scenarios to discuss in terms of flags in candidate behavior during interviews. For context, in case you did not listen to episodes 19 or 20, a Red Flag could refer to something that means stop, leave immediately - really this is not a good thing. A Yellow Flag could mean warning, slow down, you may want to investigate further; a Green Flag means proceed and a Beige flag refers to a strange or odd behavior or item that catches someone off guard but typically don't hurt anything. A beige flag is neither good nor bad, but it does draw attention. As we discuss a few scenarios to highlight flags, including these below, we will provide thoughts to consider as you prepare for and navigate your interviews. Some of these scenarios thankfully have only happened a few times, but we share them since they are memorable. We hope you enjoy listening!
Scenario: Conveying interest in the role
Scenario: A candidate who overstated their role in a project
Scenario: A candidate ghosted an organization after receiving a job offer
Scenario: Remote is the key reason why a candidate is interested in a role. However, during the interview, this candidate inadvertently indicated that focusing remotely might be challenging
Scenario: A candidate’s openness to be considered for a different role than the one they applied to.
Scenario: Importance of tailoring questions to the type and level of interviewer you are speaking with
Scenario: Interview dress
Scenario: Pressuring the organization to make a decision
Scenario: Check your screen name / background before a video interview…
Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School, launched this podcast as a way for us to share our advice, insights, and reflections to help others navigate their careers.
As we develop new episodes, this podcast will provide insights regarding career advice to help listeners navigate career choices and become more confident in their decisions. We look forward to busting myths and providing real life, timely, and accurate advice. Jim and Lauren work heavily with Ph.D. trained scientists, but the advice we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!
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