Propelling Careers

This episode will follow up from episode 90 and will focus on myth busying and amplifying good advice for career planning and navigating your career including these points below. Jim and Lauren appreciate all of the advice our network has shared for us to cover in the last episode and this one  We hope you find this episode helpful and that youenjoy listening!   Your manager matters more than the project you are hired forFind good mentors and if you get along well with people, stay in touch with them throughout even after your moved onAccept roles you don’t yet feel fully ready for and trust that you’ll grow into them. Be authentic. In your applications, your interviews, and in your workspace. You will be miserable if you spend your whole career hiding.During job search, stay away from [discussing / disclosing] drama. Keep things at high level if you had a bad experience. If you had a bad experience focus on what you learned through it Make mistakes, learn from your mistakes, never make the same mistake twiceLauren 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!

This episode is our first myth busting episode of 2026.  We will also amplify good advice also. In this episode we will focus on advice for career planning and navigating your career covering these points below.  We have a lot more advice that we will go into in future episodes.  We hope you find this episode helpful and that you enjoy listening!  We want to shoutout everyone who provided advice for this podcast.  we put out a call to our network for good and bad advice people have received and we received a lot of advice! It was really insightful to see so many pieces of good and bad advice…  Good career advice Jim and Lauren have receivedBad career advice Jim and Lauren have receivedAdvice people have shared regarding career planning If you move from academia you can never return - not true!  You should be passionate about your career Hockey analogy: skate to where the puck will be, not where it is Keep diversifying your skill set and explore different areas. It helps keep you sell-able and sustainableBe a sponge, be humble, be adaptable through changeIt is important to always try to see the big picture. Being able to tailor your communication to the audience is extremely important  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!

Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 89. We hope everyone had a nice holiday and new year.   Jim and Lauren are looking forward to 2026. For our first episode in 2026, we thought we would dive right in and talk about trends we are seeing that may influence 2026.  We hope you find this episode helpful and that you enjoy listening!  Some organizations are still hiringStanding out as a candidate is still hardCasting a wider net is important in this current market Not all roles are broadly posted A few factors affecting the life sciences industry include funding uncertainty, SBIR/STTR funding expired in sept 2025 and has not been renewed yet, and Give kids a chance act has not been passed yet, which incentives rare disease research Lauren will be at JPM next week, week of Jan 12th, in San Francisco to keep a pulse on our sectorEpisodes that we plan on doing / topics that we want to talk about in 2026 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!

Jim and Lauren both get questions about career readiness, self-advocacy, and how to mentor up. Inspired by a recent Q&A session Jim had at Boston Children’s Hospital, in this episode, we answer the questions from the audience, and other advice to help our listeners. We hope you find the advice in this episode helpful and hope you enjoy listening. Why Jim was at BCH? Strategies we have found most effective for prioritizing time and energy to balance research, writing, mentoring, and networking? Advice for postdocs to set realistic short-term and long-term goals to stay on track in academiaCommon time-management mistakes postdocs make and how these can be avoidedAdvice for postdocs to approach difficult conversations with their PI, especially when there are disagreementson research direction?Advice for how postdoc can maintain a healthy work-life balance and professional boundaries when their PI has high expectations, including making requests at all hours and occasionally overstepping personal boundaries? Steps postdocs can take early on to prevent authorship disputes Institutional resources or best practices for resolving authorship conflicts Developing productive relationships with colleagues, your boss, and other people you engage with in your work  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!

As 2025 comes to an end, Jim and Lauren put together a wrap up episode to reflect on 2025 and look forward to 2026. It was helpful for both of us to do this episode to realize how much we did in 2025 and also recognize that there is still so much to cover as we look forward to 2026…..   We want to thank you all for listening and we look forward to the 2026 Propelling Careers Podcast Season!  Audience demographics, gender, age, and location – we now have listeners in over 50 countries! Top 10 episodes by listens since podcast startedJim and Lauren’s favorite episode and why Hardest topics we did in 2025Favorite question in 2025Surprises in 2025Lessons learned in 2025Goals for 2026  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!

Welcome to Propelling Careers Podcast episode 85. Given the holiday season and the various networking opportunitiesthat come with it, we thought we would do this episode to provide advice for how to network during these various events/activities. We will cover advice for how to connect with your current network and build yours also. We hope youenjoy listening.  Be authentic as you engage with peopleThere are many different events and opportunities to engage with and build your network Advice to prepare for different types of events  Networking can occur in various forms – in person networking, online, email, informal events, etc Advice for how to engage with a potentially large cross-section of people Thoughts on individual outreach vs general messages to your network  Other ways to engage your network - sending holiday cards / emails / annual summary email / notes Leveraging LinkedIn to engage your network Your elevator pitch   Leveraging this time for informational interviews Advice to follow 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!

This episode 84 is a follow up from the last episode, episode 83. In this episode, we share a few more lessons learned during the last few months of recruiting that Lauren has been involved with.  Jim and Lauren hope that you find these two episodes helpful especially if you are in a job search.  We hope you enjoy listening.  Timeline wise - things sometimes move really fast If you cannot move quickly / start quickly, let the organization knowInterview fatigue is real – how organization try to address itCandidates need to ensure they are prepared for interviewsQuestions candidates asked, and perhaps should not ask, during interviews   Candidate correspondence matters 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!

The last few months have been really busy for Lauren with the recruiting work that she does for entrepreneurial  life sciences companies.  In this episode, Jim and Lauren share a few lessons learned over the last few months, to help others who are on the job search (or who are in the process of hiring).  We hope you find the advice in this episode helpful and hope you enjoy listening.  So many applicants – advice to stand outSome orgs hiring a few people per role…. so not all “roles are posted”Advice to understand what job titles could be a fit and how to broaden what you consider Insights on referrals LinkedIn outreach by recruiters  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!

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 episodeBe specific in your ask, Don’t be so vague Be open to feedbackHave details in your LinkedIn profile Leverage LinkedIn to identify potential connections Provide info about your background to your contacts when making connectionsRevise Materials and Send aheadDon’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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

In this episode, Jim and Lauren cover tips, including these below, to make mentoring relationships more successful.Jim talks about this topic a lot and Lauren has also covered it in some of her talks. This is a really important topic and we are looking forward to this discussion.  We hope you find the advice in this episode helpful and hope you enjoy listening.  Quit taking it personally (Q-TIP) Get a reality check Set goals and expectations together and re-evaluate often Always be prepared for a meeting Ask for feedback but make sure you have several ideas on hand  Seek out secondary mentors in addition to your primary faculty mentor Stay patient, mindful, and connected Realize that mentoring is a two-way street Remember that you are an adult and this is your career Use the resources available to 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!

This episode will continue from episode 79 to continue to focus on advice on questions Jim and Lauren get often about career readiness, self-advocacy, and how to mentor up. Both episodes 79 and this one, are Inspired by a recent Q&A session Jim had at BCH. We hope you find the advice in this episode helpful and hope you enjoy listening.  How should postdocs handle mismatched expectations between themselves and their PI or institution?  What are some practical ways to navigate competition in academia, including in-lab competition, whilemaintaining collaborations and a supportive network? How can postdocs manage career uncertainties, especially when deciding between academia and industry?  What are some red flags that indicate a postdoc is at risk of burnout, and how can they proactively prevent it?  How can institutions better support postdocs in maintaining a healthy work-life balance?   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!

In the last episode, no 77, Jim and I talked about the 2 body problem and reasons why this might occur, and in this episode, we thought we would continue the discussion to talk about how to negotiate if you find yourself in a two body situation.  We cover points such as these below.  We hope you find the advice in this episode helpful and hope you enjoy listening.   From the institutional perspective, the 2 body problem presents both strategic opportunities and operationalchallenges. What are a few of the strategic opportunitiesWhat are a few of the operational challengesWhen you should let an organization know about the 2 body situation  Who to talk with at the organization Options that could exist internally to the organization to address the 2 body problem  Options that could exist in the larger community to address the 2 body problem Considerations to be aware of and the importance of communication   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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!  

Lauren was in Chicago and Ohio a few weeks ago and the question of the two body problem came up a few times.  Jim and I decided to do this episode to provide insight on the two body problem.  We also cover insights on the academic nomad situation.   of career planning also since this can relate to the two body problem.  We hope you find the advice in this episode helpful as you plan for your career and life and hope you enjoy listening.   What do we mean by the academic nomad? What is the two body problemWhy does the academic nomad situation happen… Aspects to consider in planning for your career  Advice to navigate the academic nomad situation  Advice to navigate the two body problem  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 listenersnavigate 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!

Jim and Lauren both had busy weeks last week as part of national postdoc appreciation week (NAPW) which is the third week in September. In this episode, 76, we will cover topics below including what we talked about, questions from the audience, and other advice to help our audience. We hope you find the advice in this episode helpful and hope you enjoy listening.   What Jim and Lauren were up to during national postdoc appreciation week Jim gave a workshop at University of Central Florida - “Hero’s Journey: Making the Most of Your Training” workshop.Lauren gave a talk at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus Ohio, on “Building and Developing Career Relevant Skills” Lauren also coached a number of postdocs and grad students on resume advice while at NCHJim gave a keynote at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterJim hosted NPAW events for the HMS postdocsLauren traveled to Chicago. to give an interactive workshop at the Career Development Symposium on "Transferring Your Academic CV to a Resume for Industry"   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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

In this episode, Jim and Lauren cover advice for how to assess opportunities and evaluate job descriptions in terms of how to understand and interpret some of the language in them.  Wording in job descriptions are not there just to fill space. Wording is often carefully chosen to provide information about the organization and role. This can include information about the company stage, growth, culture, etc  We also add insights about what you might want to highlight in your application materials and to inquire about as you interview, based upon what you see in the job description. We hope you find the advice in this episode helpful and hope you enjoy listening.    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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

In our last episode, we talked about the steps in the job search process (26…).  To follow up this episode,  Jim and I decided to focus on advice for how to structure your time when you are in a job search in this episode.  We provide advice for people who are currently working and job searching as well as those who are fulltime job searching due to a RIF or other reason.  We will provide tips for how to organize your schedule to help you be more efficient as you do the many things that you should be doing as part of the job search process.  We hope you find the advice in this episode helpful and hope you enjoy listening.   Before we dive in, it’s important to mention that for many people, when they are working, their schedule is prettystructured.  It can be a shock when you find yourself suddenly not working, since the unstructured and unpredictable nature of your day can be really hard to deal with. This is why Jim and I are a big proponent of puttingin some sort of structure if you are job searching, otherwise, things may seem super haphazard, and nothing might get done…  We start with general concepts that apply to whether you are full time working and looking for a role or full timeunemployed looking for a role….   We talk about advice that is helpful to do if you are early in the job search We talk about advice once you get into a rhythmWe give some advice when you are mid Job Search ProcessWe give some advice when you are late in your Job Search ProcessLauren 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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

In this episode, Jim and Lauren outline all of the steps involved in a job search process. There are so many things you need to do if you are job searching and it can beoverwhelming to keep on top of everything. In the next episode we will talk about ways to help organize your schedule to help you be more efficient during the job search process.  We hope you find this advice in this episode andthe next one helpful and we hope you enjoy listening.  Steps in the job search process  (generally in this order)Reflect!!!!Identify organizations/sectors relevant to you identify job titles that interest you (and are relevant)Find job postingsIdentify external recruiters / recruiting firms / contacts in your spaceActivate your network - Look at LinkedIn to identify people to network with and reachout Identify networking orgsIdentify events to attend - networking and skill building events and attendWrite master resume Tailor individual resumes - for each role Write master cover letterTailor individual cover letters - for each role Get feedback from people on your application materialsWrite/update Linkedin profile Post on LIDo something fun/re-energizing!! Informational interview Follow up with people you networked with Follow up on applications  Find / ensure clothes that fit for interviews Interview prep Prepare job talkActually interview  Follow up on interviews  Get / engage referencesNegotiate job offerTop 10 most important stepsReflect on what you want in your next role, org, environmentIdentify organizations relevant to you identify job titles that interest you Activate your network Write master resume and CLTailor resume and CL for each role  Get feedback from people on your application materialsWrite/update LinkedIn profile Informational interview Do something fun!!   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!

With so many people impacted by RIF’s (reduction in force, layoffs, etc) we thought we would do this episode to provide advice specifically for people who have been impacted by this.  RIF’s can apply to everyone - people in academia, industry, on-profits, government, etc. We will focus on a few topics in this episode focused on helping plan your job search if you have been impacted by a RIF. We hope you find this advice helpful and we hope you enjoylistening.  Are there different types of RIFs? When do you start applying – right away, or should you reflect first before you send out so many resumes Do you mention the RIF when you apply or talk with people?  How does a RIF effect references How do you talk with your network about the RIF Should you do the “open to work on” LinkedInAdvice to help your network help youif you are international and on a visa and are part of a RIF how do you navigate RIF’sLauren 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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

This episode continues from the last one, episode 70, to add a little more reflection on the last 69 episodes. In the spirit of reflection, we will also share a few thoughts around reflecting on your job search and why this is important to do. We hope you enjoy listening.  Our reflection of the podcast:Our biggest surprises from doing our podcastA few lessons we have learned from doing our podcast Current specific pain points Job search reflectionIf you are not hearing back from job applications, we mention a few reasons why If you are not making it past the HR screen, we mention a few reasons why If you are not making it past the Hiring Manager screen, we mention a few reasons why If you are not making it past the interview teams with colleagues, we mention a few reasons why  If you are not making it past the presentation part of the interview , we mention a few reasons why   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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

This episode is more of a retrospective of the last 69 episodes.  A few weeks ago, we had our 5,000th play and this got us thinking about doing a retrospective episode, since we have so much content. In this episode, we reflect on a few topic areas of the podcast to help for our listeners as they navigate the many episodes.  In addition to reflecting on the episodes, we also reflect on the themes, lessons learned and a few other points below. We hope you enjoy listening.  A few reflections on episodes covering Self-reflection: Intro (Ep 1), SF Trip (Ep 2), March Madness/Job Search/Interview (Ep 6/7), Summer Slowdown (Ep 15), Skill building & Myth busting (Ep 37), Silver linings in change (Ep 43), Game Face (Ep 58)), Salary Negotiation (Ep 60), Universal Advice (Ep 64) A few reflections on episodes covering Self-awareness: Skill building & Myth busting (Ep 37), Silver linings in change (Ep 43), Giving & Receiving feedback (Ep 45) Some of Lauren’s favorite episodes - Superpowers episode (Ep 10), Engagement with your community & myth busting (Ep 18), Advice for international scientists (Ep 53) Some of Jim’s favorite episodes Getting your game face on (Ep 58), all of myth-busting episodes, Finding silver linings in change (Ep 43), New year new administration (Ep 41), Giving gratitude (Ep 38), Thanksgiving/end of year (Ep40), Interviewing red/green flag series (Eps 19-23)  A few reflections on episodes covering Resumes and specific resume advice (Eps 9, 12, 13, 14, 69)A few reflections on episodes covering Interviewing (Eps 7, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 67, 68)A few reflections on episodes covering Networking (Eps 33, 34)A few reflections on episodes covering Informational Interviewing (Eps 15, 16)A few reflections on episodes covering Job searching and navigating career choices (Eps 6, 29, 30, 32, 64) What episodes have we gotten the most feedback on  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!