Propelling Careers

Lauren Celano
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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.

  1. 2d ago

    Ep 111: Part 2: Q’s from Optimizing your CV in the Era of AI talk at Festival of Genomics - Propelling Careers Podcast

    Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 111. This is a continuation from episode 110 - to cover more Questionswe received from the  Festival of Genomics in Boston.   We want to give a shout out again to  Jennifer K. Ocasio Adorno, PhD, at North Carolina State University who wrote down all the questions that we got during the talk. In this episode we focus on these points below. We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoy listening.    Structuring & Organizing Content Is there a standard order of sections or would you need to move sections around depending on the application? Can education be listed different places based upon what you are trying to show?  Where should publications be listed in the resume?When you reorganize your CV for the job ad, do you work at a high level or add / modify / remove experiences?Where should you include core competencies? And how should you phrase these?   Writing Effective Experience Descriptions How do you distinguish between research experiences with similar backgrounds and achievements?How detailed should bullet points be?Should you duplicate bullet points across experiences?How can you best convey wide or varied experience (e.g., consulting with multiple clients)?     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!

    40 min

  2. Jun 21

    Ep 110: Part 1: Q’s from Optimizing your CV in the Era of AI talk at Festival of Genomics - Propelling Careers Podcast

    Jim and Lauren recently gave a talk at the Festival of Genomics in Boston on Optimizing your CV in the AI Era. Wecovered a range of topics on resume creation, development and branding and we had a lot of questions during our talk. One of the audience members, Jennifer K. Ocasio Adorno, PhD, at North Carolina State University took these down for us and we are super thankful for that!  We also want to thank  Victor Guy, a Life Sciences Event Producer, at Front Line Genomics who invited us to do our talk. This podcast will be the first in a few to cover all of the questions we received. We start with these below.  We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoy listening.    Resume vs. CV: Length, Format, and Purpose   Would a resume always be a 1‑pager and more pages would be a CV?What is a good lengthWill a longer resume burden reviewers?Do you then include descriptions of each role? Isn’t that part of the interview?How long should the summary be at the beginning of your resume?How granular do you have to be about the dates (year; month, year)?            Skills, Expertise, and Non‑Technical Elements What is the importance of service, awards, and other experiences? Isn’t technical expertise most important?How do demonstrate well-roundedness, transferable skills, “fit”Is it worth including all techniques/skills on your resume when these also appear in dropdown menus inthe job application?Do you need to use exact phrasing from the role (e.g., “molecular genetics”)?  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!

    42 min

  3. Jun 12

    Ep 109: Disconnect and unplug with intention - Propelling Careers Podcast

    Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 109.  We talked in our last podcast about a few ways to leverage the summer slowdown and one of these was to disconnect and unplug with intention. Therefore we thought we would do a specific podcast just to focus on this topic covering points including these below. We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoy listening.    Use normalizing language: it matters what you call it and how you phrase/frame Normalize rest as responsible scienceRedefine “rest”: Not all rest is passive.Step away from work intentionally Gentle re‑entry (so the break actually helps)Start your morning media free. Set bounded unplug rules (not all‑or‑nothing)Find your creative outletAllocate time for your mental health through meditation and breathingJournalingLimit your screen timeTrade your phone for a book or some other activity Get physical exercise    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 listenersnavigate 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!

    35 min

  4. Jun 5

    Ep 108: Recharging and Reinvigorate your Career Exploration during the summer slowdown - Propelling Careers Podcast

    The start of summer marks a turning point in the year.  This can be a great time to reflect and refocus and recharge. In this episode, we focus on tips including these below, to help you leverage the summer time, especially if you are in a career search.  Often, the summer is less busy with work meetings, conferences, and other work obligations, therefore you may have more time to focus recharging andreflection. We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoylistening.  Reflect on what work gave you energy and joyReflect on what work consistently drained you  Reflect on when you felt most usefulReflect on what you procrastinated on even when you had time to do the work Disconnect/unplug with intentionPay attention to moments of curiosity especially during downtimeConnect with your network - outside of work activities and for funEngage in Informational interviews since people you want to connect with may have more time over the summer toconnectWork on your resume - does it truly reflect who you are and where you want to go?Work on your LinkedIn profile - does it truly reflect who you are and where you want to go? Post a few times on LinkedIn to let your network know what you are up toLearn something new 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!

    35 min

  5. May 29

    Ep 107: Building your Target List - Propelling Careers Podcast

    In many of Jim and Lauren’s coaching discussions, the topic of building a target list to identify organizations of interest comes up. This seems to happen regardless of the original focus of the coaching session. Since so many people are not sure how to build this. By developing a target list, you may increase your chances of identifying opportunities.  We have covered this topic as part of a few episodes, but we have not done one just on this topic, therefore we decided to dothis episode specifically on this topic.  We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoy listening.    Why are we doing this episode:  What do you mean by target list The target list advice can be used to build a list of organizations, as well as a list of titles and also a list of people to connect with  Why is this important Strategies to build your target list Once you have your target list, how can you use it    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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

    41 min

  6. May 21

    Ep 106: Fighting the overwhelm: how to get started - Propelling Careers Podcast

    Jim and Lauren have had many discussions recently where people we speak with just feel overwhelmed in their job search / career navigation.  Therefore, we thought we would do this episode to try to give advice for how to overcome the overwhelming feeling.  We cover points including these below. We hope you enjoy listening.    Set small goalsTake an inventory of what you have access to: Don’t do your search aloneTry to cross things off your listKeep track of progressFocus only on what you can control, keep it simpleBe intentionalProtect and replenish your energy  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

  7. May 13

    Ep 105: Questions from Jim’s talks at MGH, AAI and Beth Israel - Propelling Careers Podcast

    In this episode, we will talk about a few more of Jim’s recent talks at MGH, AAI’s IMMUNOLOGY 2026 conference and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.  The talk at Beth Israel was Jim’s talk, “Self-work to Network”  and the talks at MGH and activities at AAI Immunology 2026 focused on resumes and CV’s.  We hope you enjoy listening.    Questions from Jim’s talk at BIDMC include: I feel my self-worth, but as a postdoc, it's one of the most underappreciated (especially financially) jobsthat we are a part of, Do you have insights?  What types of elevator pitches should we be preparing for different situations? How do you build connections that last and build without bothering/burdening them? How do you build your reputation and increasevisibility? How can we showcase ourselves to the non-scientific audiences?  I have a very broad network, but it's tough to stay in touch with everyone, do you have any advice? Resume advice   For how to make a strong first impression.To showcase YOU and your skills/experience.To tailoring your resume and CV to the jobFormatting advice    A few questions that came up from the MGH andAAI activities   How much effort do I put into LinkedIn?How to Networking efficiency?  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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

    42 min

  8. May 7

    Ep 104: Defining career and professional success - Propelling Careers Podcast

    In episode 102, the topic of defining success came up while we were discussing Jim’s recent talk at Wheaton College.Since this is such an important topic, and one that can be very personal and individualized, we decided to do a podcast focused on defining success. We hopeyou enjoy listening.    Why we feel this is important   How do you know where you’re going if you never define the destination? What is important to you personally? What is important to you professionally? Keep in mind, what Success looks like might change over time as your career and life develops Separate happiness from successSeparate self worth from successDefine what success looks like for you - what are your guiding principles  Build in accountability Celebrate success otherwise it feels like you’re constantly chasing  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 listenersnavigate 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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

    32 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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  • Creator
    Lauren Celano
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    111
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Lauren Celano
  • Show Website
    Propelling Careers

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