Welcome to Propelling Careers podcast episode 23. In this episode, Jim and Lauren continue the theme of flags similar to episodes 19, 20, 21, and 22.  Will talk about a few more scenarios relating to networking, resumes, job searching, and interviewing. We have been enjoying putting these together, so we thought we would have one last one to wrap up the flags theme for right now.

For context, in case you have not listened to episodes 19, 20, 21, or 22 a Red Flag could refer to something that means stop, leave immediately - really not a good thing.  A Yellow Flag could mean warning, slow down, you may want to investigate further; a Green Flag means proceed and a Beige flag could refers to a strange or odd behavior or item that catches someone off guard but typically don't hurt anything. A beige flag is neither good nor bad, but it does draw attention. We hope you find our insights helpful as you navigate these different scenarios. We hope you enjoy listening   

Scenario: Only having 1 resume.  (To dive deeper into

Scenario - not having a google doc or word version of your resume

Scenario: How you list dates on your resume

Scenario: Applying only to roles where you know someone at the organization. 

Scenario: only using one source to search for roles   

Scenario: Not aligning your responses to what the interviewer is asking about 

Scenario: Interview questions not to ask first

Scenario: How to respond when you hear you are not being offered the job

Scenario: being short with people when networking   

Scenario: not having a LinkedIn profile that accurately reflects your interests and experiences 

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 this podcast episode Jim and Lauren talk about flags in the context of networking. We talk about a few scenarios, including these listed below, in order to provide context to help all of you navigate networking situations. By networking, we are referring to situations such as networking events, informational interviewing, and also email networking. For context, in case you did not listen to episodes 19, 20, or 21 a Red Flag could refer to something that  means stop, leave immediately - really

Scenario: Single minded networker

Scenario: putting your stress or time crunch on someone else 

Scenario: Not having a clear elevator pitch 

Scenario: Not following up after someone made a referral connection for you

Scenario: not empowering people to help you  

Scenario: Expecting ROI quickly 

Scenario: Not being clear enough with Email networking  

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 20 since we have so many scenarios to discuss in terms of flags in candidate behavior during interviews. For context, in case you did not listen to episodes 19 or 20, a Red Flag could refer to something that means stop, leave immediately - really this is not a good thing.  A Yellow Flag could mean warning, slow down, you may want to investigate further; a Green Flag means proceed and a Beige flag refers to a strange or odd behavior or item that catches someone off guard but typically don't hurt anything. A beige flag is neither good nor bad, but it does draw attention.  As we discuss a few scenarios to highlight flags, including these below, we will provide thoughts to consider as you prepare for and navigate your interviews. Some of these scenarios thankfully have only happened a few times, but we share them since they are memorable.  We hope you enjoy listening!    

Scenario:  Conveying interest in the role

Scenario:  A candidate who overstated their role in a project

Scenario:  A candidate ghosted an organization after receiving a job offer

Scenario:  Remote is the key reason why a candidate is interested in a role. However, during the interview, this candidate inadvertently indicated that focusing remotely might be challenging      

Scenario:  A candidate’s openness to be considered for a different role than the one they applied to.  

Scenario:  Importance of tailoring questions to the type and level of interviewer you are speaking with

Scenario:  Interview dress 

Scenario:  Pressuring the organization to make a decision 

Scenario:  Check your screen name / background before a video interview…

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 20. In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on interviewing insights in the context of the candidate and how they may be indicating red, green, yellow or beige flags by their behaviors and responses. We will share actual examples from candidate interviews in this episode and we will discuss these in the context of the flags.  For context, a Red Flag could refer to something that means stop, leave immediately; a Yellow Flag could mean warning, slow down, you may want to investigate further; a Green Flag means proceed and a Beige flag could refers to a strange or odd behavior or item that catches someone off guard but typically does not hurt anything. A beige flag is neither good nor bad, but it does draw attention. As we discuss a few scenarios, including these below, to highlight each of these flags, we will provide thoughts to consider if you do any of these flags. We 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 we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

Welcome to Propelling Careers podcast episode 19. In this episode, Jim and Lauren focus on interviewing insights in the context of what to look out for if you are a candidate interviewing at organizations. These things can indicate if the organization is organized or chaotic, if the culture is positive, if the team members seem to have good working relationships and respect for each other, if your manager will be a good manager and support their team, and others.  We will share actual examples from candidate interviews in this episode and we will discuss these in the context of Red, Yellow, Green and Beige flags.  For context, a Red Flag could refer to something that means stop, leave immediately; a Yellow Flag could mean warning, slow down, you may want to investigate further; a Green Flag means proceed and a Beige flag could refers to a strange or odd behavior or item that catches someone off guard but typically does not hurt anything. A beige flag is neither good nor bad, but it does draw attention. As we discuss a few scenarios, including these below, to highlight each of these flags, we will provide thoughts to consider if you encounter any of these flags. We hope you enjoy listening!

Scenario: Efficiency (or not) in setting up the interview process

Scenario: Consistency in what interview team members share with you about the role and/or organization

Scenario: How the organization interview members responds to the question you ask about their values and how they demonstrate these

Scenario: Pay attention to questions the interview team asks you, especially if you are asked the same question by most people in the interview team

Scenario: Panel interviews – pay attention to the interview team interactions

Scenario: Ask questions to understand team dynamics / environment to ensure alignment to what you are looking for

Scenario: Being offered a job without being able to interview with the full team

Scenario: Hiring manager talking negatively about his current team

Scenario: Being asked unrelated questions to the job, such as what is your favorite animal, food, vacation spot, etc  

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 18. In this

- Involvement in local chapters of national org's

- Involvement in specific groups at universities

- Founding an organization to serve a need you see

- Involvement in community wide organizations

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 17. In this episode, Jim and Lauren build upon information shared about informational interviews in Episode 16 which focused on why to do informational interviews and how to identify people. This episode focuses on what to ask during an informational interview covering advice including these details below.  We 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

In this episode and also episode 17, Jim and Lauren focus on informational interviewing. In Episode 15, we talked about how the summer slowdown can be a great opportunity to reflect on your career and informational interviewing is a wonderful opportunity to put this reflection into action.  Informational interviewing is so important for career insights.  Many people who you would like to reachout to may have more time during the summer so this creates a unique opportunity for you.  This episode will cover these points below and episode 17 will focus on what questions to ask.  We hope you enjoy

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.

In this episode, Jim and Lauren share a few thoughts on how to leverage the ”summer slowdown” for your career Journey. 

For many people, the summer months are a little slower than fall and spring, which allows mental capacity to even think about your future. We cover a few points such as these below. We 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 we provide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!

In Propelling Careers Podcast Episode 14, Jim and Lauren continue with resume advice (following on from Episodes 12 and 13) and at the end, Jim and Lauren provide some critique to their CV and resume. This episode covers topics such as:  

We 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 we provide can be applicable to other audiences.