Propelling Careers Podcast Episode 34: Following up from Networking interactions 

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In this episode, Jim and Lauren provide advice, including these topics below, to follow up from your networking interactions. We hope you enjoy listening!

• Advice to keep notes of what you talked about during interactions
• Have a professional permanent email
• Tailor follow up
• When to follow up after networking interactions
• Be specific in your subject lines / body of emails
• How do you keep on a person’s radar after the initial follow up
• We share a few reasons to follow up
• The importance of being organized to help with your follow up
• Leverage LinkedIn post feature and other tools as a way to follow up
• Leverage informational interviews for followups
• When you reachout, include verifiable information
• Do not overwhelm the person you are reaching out to
• Leverage points of commonality in your followups
• A few things that you should not do while following up

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!