Looking Your Best on Paper - Building a Resume and Cover Letter
Join us for an insightful online event where Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers, will share valuable tips and on how to develop tailored resumes and cover letters for your job applications to help you stand out. This presentation will focus on the life sciences sector, but the information shared can apply to other sectors.
Your resumes and cover letters are such an important part of your application process. In this talk, Lauren leverages her >15 years of recruiting and coaching experience to highlight best practices to develop these documents. This talk will share information for why tailoring is important as well as advice for how to tailoring your resume and cover letter as you apply to roles. This talk provides examples for how to list your hard skills as well as soft skills as you develop these documents. Examples will be shared to provide advice for a range of career areas including research and non-research roles such as medical writing, business development, and consulting. Advice will be also be provided regarding resume and cover letter formatting.
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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Building a Resume & Cover Letter for Life Sciences
Feb 5, 2026 at 12:00 PM EDT