In this episode, Jim and Lauren talk about a few conferences that Lauren attended / spoke at between June 10th and 23rd 2025 covering these points below.  Lauren was at the Graduate Career Consortium (GCC) conference in Minneapolis MN from June 10-13, The BIO conference in Boston from June 15-18 and the American Society of Microbiology Microbe (ASM) conference in Los Angeles from June 19-23.  

• What is the GCC conference
• How was the GCC
• Our talk at the GCC – along with Vanderbilt and the Science Communication Lab about our respective podcasts - The title: “Still listening?  a Comparison of three Ph.D. podcasts and a discussion of their relevance in 2025.  
• Questions we got about our podcasts
• Involvement in the Scholar Mentor and Development Program - as part of BIO https://smdp.icpdprograms.org/ 
• Panel moderation at the SMDP program on Getting Hired
• Advice that the panelists shared during the panel  
• BIO conference networking and engaging with international groups
• The possible talk at Bio
• Developing a high impact resume talk at the ASM Career Symposium
• Mentoring at ASM
• Takeaways from Lauren’s talk at the ASM Leadership Symposium on How to develop and engage your professional network

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 weprovide can be applicable to other audiences. We hope you enjoy listening!