Acing your Interview: Answering with Confidence
Join us for an insightful online event where Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers, will share valuable tips on how to ace your interview and answer with confidence. This presentation will focus on the life sciences sector, but the information shared can apply to other sectors.
This talk provides advice for how to succeed during an interview and will cover different interview formats including phone/video, in person one-on-one and panel settings. This talk provides insight on what hiring managers, team members and HR look for when conducting interviews and how to develop responses using the STAR technique. Lauren will discuss how to prepare for skills based questions (i.e. tell me more about X Technical Experience) as well as “soft skills” questions (i.e. tell me how you work in a team, or how you show initiative). Lauren will provide insight on why companies use behavioral interviewing during the interview process. Lauren will cover research that a candidate can do to make sure they have relevant background information on the organization and interviewers and advice on what questions to ask during an interview.
About the speaker:
Lauren Celano is the co-founder of Propel Careers, a life sciences search and career development firm and she is also the co-founder of the Propelling Careers podcast which is a podcast providing career advice on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. She has recruited for more than 60 innovative life sciences organizations and has coached thousands of students, postdocs, medical residents and professionals to advance their careers since co-founding Propel in 2009. Lauren presents often on career development topics to inspire the next generation of talent. Before Propel, she spent about 10 years in life sciences advancing drug molecules through SNBL USA, Aptuit, Quintiles, and Absorption Systems. She has a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Gettysburg College and an MBA (focused in the health sector and entrepreneurship) from Boston University. She is on Boards including: MassBioEd (Chair), MassBio, National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association and Advisory Boards: the Professional Science Masters Program at Framingham State University and NE Graduate Women in Science.
This talk is one in a series of talks:
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Acing your Life Sciences Interview: Answering with Confidence
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