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.
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Ep 118: Myth Busting - Leadership and Failure - Propelling Careers Podcast (opens the original)
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In this episode we will focus on two myths that we hear often. One is Leadership skills are only important for people in formal leadership positions - like being a manager of people and the second one is that failure is a sign that I don't belong. We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoy listening. Leadership is not only for people in formal leadership positions Leadership can occur at any career stage. Leadership is a behavior, not a title There are many way to show leadership that is n
Ep 117: Myth Busting - Propelling Careers Podcast (opens the original)
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In this episode we focus on myth busting including these points below. This is one of our favorite topics. The myth busting is one of the reasons we started the podcast. We like being a source of truth for people seeking relevant and real time career advice. We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoy listening. Good science speaks for itself My mentor will manage my career I need to have my entire career figured out now Professional development can wait until I'm almost done your graduate
Ep 116: How to sell yourself without being salesy - Propelling Careers Podcast (opens the original)
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Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 116. In this episode we will focus on how to sell yourself without being salesy - this topic has come up multiple times in many of our coaching discussions so we thought we would do this episode to provide advice. We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoy listening. it’s important to be Truthful (about challenges and accomplishments) it’s important to be authentic It’s important to be excited and proud It’s important to be facts and evidence-b
Ep 115: Informational interview Advice - Propelling Careers Podcast (opens the original)
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In this episode we will focus on tips to do effective informational interviews. In the last episode, 114, wetalked about networking tips. Since one way to follow up from networking could be an informational interview, we thought this episode would be timely in case any of our listeners have informational interviews after their networking. We cover advice including these points below. We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoy listening. People may have more time over the summer to connect
Ep 114: Building and Connecting with your Network - diving deeper into one of the topics from ep 108 - Propelling Careers Podcast (opens the original)
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In this episode we will focus on tips to build and connect with your network especially during more informal get togethers that happen over the summer. We briefly discussed this topic in episode 108 and will dive deeper in this episode covering points including these below. We hope you find this helpful and that you enjoy listening. Summertime is a great time to connect with your network through outside of work activities such as bbq’s, summer parties, informal events, etc Tips to network based
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