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Ep 82 - Help me help you….. - Propelling Careers Podcast 

November 18, 2025
by Lauren Celano, CEO, Propel Careers and Jim Gould, the Director for Postdoctoral Affairs at Harvard Medical School 
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This episode focuses on ways to help your network help you especially if you are in a job search. We put this episode together to provide advice to make it easier for people to help you and we cover tips including these below. For many people, this might be their first real job search so they might not have thought about these tips before. Even for seasoned people, this job market is different than previous ones, so they may find these tips helpful also. We hope you find the advice in this episode helpful and hope you enjoy listening.

 

  • Why are we doing this episode
  • Be specific in your ask, Don’t be so vague
  • Be open to feedback
  • Have details in your LinkedIn profile
  • Leverage LinkedIn to identify potential connections
  • Provide info about your background to your contacts when making connections
  • Revise Materials and Send ahead
  • Don’t put time pressure on the person you are asking to help you

 

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!

 

 

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