Propelling Careers

Lauren Celano
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Propelling Careers

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. This podcast provides 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.

  1. HACE 4 DÍAS

    Propelling Careers Podcast Episode 41: New Year New Job

    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!

    27 min

  2. 27/12/2024

    Propelling Careers Podcast Episode 40: 2024 Wrapup and Podcast Highlights

    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!

    41 min

  3. 19/12/2024

    Propelling Careers Podcast Episode 39: Cultivating, Picking and using References 

    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!

    38 min

  4. 12/12/2024

    Propelling Careers Podcast Episode 38: Giving Gratitude

    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!

    31 min

  5. 04/12/2024

    Propelling Careers Podcast Episode 37: Our Skill Building and busting a few myths

    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!

    37 min

  6. 21/11/2024

    Propelling Careers Podcast Episode 36:  Life Sciences job opportunities and challenges and ABRCMS conference

    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!

    32 min

  7. 15/11/2024

    Propelling Careers Podcast Episode 35: Deciphering job descriptions - how to understand what the org is looking for

    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!

    34 min

  8. 07/11/2024

    Propelling Careers Podcast Episode 34: Following up from Networking interactions

    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!

    37 min
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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. This podcast provides 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.

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  • Creador
    Lauren Celano
  • Años de actividad
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodios
    41
  • Clasificación
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  • Copyright
    © Lauren Celano
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    Propelling Careers

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