How to develop and engage your network for your job search
Join us for an insightful online event where Lauren Celano, CEO of Propel Careers, will share valuable tips on how to develop and engage your network so that you are not doing your job search alone. This presentation will focus on the life sciences sector, but the information shared can apply to other sectors.
This talk will provide advice for how to engage (and develop if needed) your network during a job search. This talk will provide advice for how to identify events and organizations relevant to your interests so that you can build your network. We will provide advice for how to leverage LinkedIn to identify people you can reachout to. We will also provide advice for how to reach out to your network for insights about organizations and roles, what to say when you reachout, how to engage in informational interviews, and how to prioritize who to reachout out to. This talk will provide advice to empower your network to help you throughout your search so that you are not doing this alone.
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:
Building a Resume and Cover Letter for Life Sciences
Dec 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT
Advice to Identify Career Opportunities in Life Sciences
Dec 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT
How to develop and engage your network during your job search
Dec 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT
Acing your Life Sciences Interview: Answering with Confidence
Dec 22, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT
Leveraging LinkedIn: Build, Brand, and Boost Your Profile
Dec 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT