Welcome to Propelling Careers podcast episode 36. This week (Nov 13-16 2024), Lauren is at the ABRCMS conference in Pittsburgh PA. She gave a talk on Nov 15th on The state of the industry job market:  opportunities, challenges, and strategies for success. We thought it could be worthwhile to talk about this topic in our podcast today.  ABRCMS stands for the  Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minoritized Scientists.  ABRCMS has been the go-to conference for underrepresented community college, undergraduate and postbaccalaureate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. As ABRCMS has continued to grow and evolve, it has also become a space for graduate students, postdocs, faculty, program administrators and more.

We talk a little about Pittsburgh (Jim’s home-town)

We talk a little about the ABRCMS conference

Lauren talked about her talk at the ABRCMS conference on The state of the industry job market:  opportunities, challenges, and strategies for success

So much flux right now in the industry – funding challenges, reorganizations, layoffs, etc

Fierce Biotech has a tracker to keep track of all of these layoffs

Is this current flux a normal part of the system?

Fundraising has been challenging leading to reorgs and layoffs across the industry 

We cover a few areas of growth in the industry

We cover how to use this information for your job search

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!