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  • In this episode, Jim and Lauren follow up from the last podcast, episode 51, which focused on developing and delivering an effective job talk and in this episode, will give few tips, such as these below, to develop and show confidence as you are giving your talk. These tips could also apply to other situations also. We hope you find this information helpful and we hope you enjoy listening.

    We talk briefly about the recent National Postdoctoral Association meeting in Boston and insights on some of the presentations we heard

    We shared thoughts on what stands out positively about presentations

    We shared a few thoughts on what could hinder presentations

    We talked about a few phrases that people say that might undermine audience confidence along with a few ways to reword these statements to showcase more confidence to the audience

    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!

  • In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on how to develop and deliver an effective job talk. We will provide advice for academic as well as industry job talks. How you communicate in your job talk, is such an important part of the interview process. We cover points including these below. We hope you find this information helpful and we hope you enjoy listening.

    Why organizations ask for a job talk

    When in the interview process is a job talk

    Understanding your audience

    Types of job talks (there are many…)

    What do interviewers look for in the job talk

    Tips to structure your job talk

    Do’s and don’ts for job talks

    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 build upon our previous episode, episode 49, to talk more about why it’s important to communicate your value. In this episode, we cover advice related to communicating your value on LinkedIn and your application materials including these below. We hope you enjoy listening.

    Why clearly communicating your value on your LinkedIn and application materials is important

    This is useful even if you are not actively looking for a new role

    How communication of your value may be different on LinkedIn and Resumes

    A few ways to show your value on LinkedIn in your Summary, experience and title

    Leveraging the post feature on LinkedIn

    A few tips to highlight value on your resume

    Can you include things in your resume or LinkedIn that did not result in something like a paper or a novel research finding

    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!

  • In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on why it’s important to communicate your value along with a few ways to do this. Right now, It is especially important for scientists to communicate effectively so that others know the value and impact of the work that you do. This episode will focus more generally on why this topic focusing on these points below. A few future episodes will dive deeper into different scenarios such as networking, your resume, LinkedIn, and Interviewing. We hope you enjoy listening.

    Why effective communication of your value is important

    Before you can effectively communicate your value and impact, you first need to understand Your Unique ValueProposition

    Self reflection is important in order to understand this

    Jim and Lauren highlight a few of their strengths, skills and unique qualities

    We talk about elevator pitches and storytelling

    We provide a few tips to overcome imposter syndrome.

    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!

  • In this episode, Jim and Lauren continue from our last episode, episode 47 to cover a few more career truths to help our listeners plan for and navigate their careers including these below. We saw a number of LinkedIn posts about these topics that we will talk about so we are hoping you find this compilation of information helpful. We hope you enjoy listening.

    Burnout is real and is not healthy - it is not a Badge of Honor

    You cannot fire on all cylinders all the time – it’s not sustainable

    Burnout happens for different reasons, too much work, not the right resources, economic uncertainty, and others

    Spreading responsibility, delegating where you can, building teams, trusting others can help with this

    Be on the lookout for signs of burnout so that you can try to address this

    How do you get back from the path to burnout

    Don’t just settle in a comfort zone for the rest of your career - embrace opportunities to learn and grow.

    You need stability to learn and grow though so keep this in mind

    Look out for stretch opportunities to allow you to grow and develop. Be comfortable being uncomfortable…

    We should all be thinking about what skills, experiences, settings, etc that we would like to get more exposure to in order to expand our toolkit.

    Do your best to focus on impact rather than being irreplaceable

    Money does not buy happiness – it should not be your sole driver in decisions around career

    Look at the entirety of the offer package – comp and benefits as well as intangibles – such as career growth, relationship with your boss, entrance to an emerging field, etc

    You are not your job – your job does not define you

    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!

  • In this episode, Jim and Lauren discuss a few career truths that we thought would be helpful to hear as our listeners plan for and navigate their careers including these below. We saw a number of LinkedIn posts about these so we have assembled some key ones that we think are important. We hope you enjoy listening.

    It’s not enough to just work hard and be good at what you do, you need to advocate for yourself, increase your visibility and build your community (at work and beyond)

    Don’t focus just on job title, focus on developing your experiences, building skills, and expanding your exposure across the organization – this means so much more than just what title you have (had)

    Strive for excellence, quality and progress, instead of perfection

    Your career path is not linear – embrace pivots and side steps - often these can lead to amazing opportunities as you look back on your career

    Many new roles are created as the industry evolves so embrace new opportunities

    People who are career changers later in life, should lean into this – often there is a very compelling reason why they are making a pivot

    Networking is extremely important – building your network is something you should actively do, and not just when you need a new job

    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!

  • In this episode, Jim Gould and Lauren Celano follow up to the last episode, episode 45 and share a few more pieces of advice for giving and receiving feedback. We will then provide a few tips for giving and receiving feedback. We cover points including these below. We hope you enjoy listening.

    When giving and receiving feedback, it is important to be aware of the difference between venting, complaining andgiving or requesting feedback

    When you give feedback, it is helpful to frame it in a way that is not confrontational; frame this in a way for how youlike to work or what you need

    A few tips for giving feedback up (managing up)

    Managing up takes courage

    Having a sense of humility is important

    A few tips for how toenter into and navigate difficult conversations

    Let the person know how you are feeling before you just dive in

    Remember, avoiding difficult conversations might just ruin relationships. Having these can help deepen relationships and build trust.

    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!

  • In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on giving and receiving feedback. Many people could probably improve/enhance their processes around this, so we thought this could be helpful. We cover points including these below. We hope you enjoy listening.

    There are multiple types of feedback including positive feedback and constructive feedback. Also this could be given in individual or and group settings.

    Feedback varies from feedback that Jim and Lauren often give, such as feedback on resumes, job search, etc and also feedback that a manager may give to their direct report.

    Feedback is a gift

    Points to keep in mind when giving and receiving feedback

    Benefits of giving and receiving feedback

    Ways to give feedback

    In what setting to give feedback

    Tips when receiving feedback

    The importance of active 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!

  • In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on advice related to helping people navigate their career journey / search (orprepare for it). We often debunk bad advice (since one reason we started this podcast was to be a source of truth regarding career focused insights) but in this episode, we thought we would boost good advice, such as these points below. We hope you enjoy listening.

    To advance in your career, you need to work on yourself first

    Consider how you are interacting with your colleagues / team / group – are you positively contributing to the energy of the group? Are you enjoyable to work with? Do you meet your commitments?

    You can lead, even if you are not the boss

    Consider that sometimes a setback or failure, may actually be a blessing in disguise and a valuable learning opportunity

    Recognize the value of self reflection

    Highlight your value – recruiters cannot read your mind… make your information approachable

    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!

  • In this episode, Jim and Lauren share perspective about how to find silver linings in change. We both know change can be hard. but sometimes change opens up opportunities that you were not aware of. Many people I know have been able to find a better culture, a better work life balance, more fulfillment in their career, and other things after the initial change of role. We hope you enjoy listening.

    - How to find lessons learned in these challenges and changes we face

    - How to maintain positivity during challenges and changes we face

    - We can work and what might not work to find the silver lining in change

    - How to get into the right mindset and nourish it

    - Oftentimes change provides a time of reflection

    - What are your lessons learned

    - What is your motivation moving forward- Building resilience and using this to bounce forward

    - Importance of a growth mindset

    - Tip for what is helpful and not helpful to do when you are looking for silver linings

    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!

  • In our last episode, 41, we rung in the New Year by talking about the "New Year, New Job’". To provide more advice to help with this topic, in this episode Jim and Lauren cover something we often hear from job searchers, that is dealing with the pressure of finding a job under time constraints, especially without seeming too desperate. We cover these points below. We hope you enjoy listening!

    Limited timeframes for your job search can arise for various reasons. Normalize the pressure, recognize it and develop a plan Spread the responsibility (engage your network) so that you don’t do your search alone Self reflect so that you have an idea of what you are looking for next and share this with people Have your application materials together Get in a routine - schedule times for searching Take stock of resources you have access to and leverage these. You might have access to more than you think. Developing a SMART plan Be proactive to identify organizations and roles (don’t just look on job boards) Set goals and reward yourself to keep motivated

    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!

  • In episode 41, our first episode of 2025, we focus on the topic of New Year, New Job. The new year often brings with it a fresh start and this can invigorate people especially as they think about their career. In this episode, we will provide advice and insights to help as you navigate career exploration and or a search including these below. We hope you enjoy listening!

    - The important role that self reflection plays in your exploration and search

    - The importance of having “anchors” i.e. preferences for what you want in your career and what you are looking for in a role to help focus you in your search

    - Document your anchors

    - You should not launch a search until you know what you are looking for

    - Be intentional in your search

    - Use these anchors to guide you in tailoring application materials

    - Reflect on what gives you energy to help you know what you may want to focus on as your career develops

    - It is important to understand where you are in the process: job exploration or job search

    - What signs might indicate that you should start to consider looking for a new role

    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!

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 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!

  • 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 up

    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!

  • 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 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!