Preparing for Career Success: How to be Competitive in Industry Job Market (1.29.19)

This event is part of the Preparing for Career Success series

Featuring: Lauren Celano, MBA, Founder and CEO, Propel Careers

Workshop Description:
This seminar will discuss ways that you can become a better candidate for a position in industry while completing your Ph.D. or postdoctoral training. Lauren will focus on research and non‐research positions such as consulting, business development, writing, and medical affairs. This seminar will cover how to incorporate collaborative research into Ph.D. work, how to learn hard and soft skills valued by industry, and various ways to gain management and leadership skills. Importantly, this seminar will discuss how both Ph.D.’s and postdocs already possess many skills valued by industry, and ways to discuss and highlight these skills.

Speaker Bio:
Lauren Celano is the co-founder and CEO of Propel Careers, a life science search and career development firm focused on connecting talented individuals with entrepreneurial life sciences companies. Propel works with current leaders and actively cultivates future leaders through full time placement, internships, mentoring, career coaching, and networking. Propel Careers is engaged across all areas of life sciences, including therapeutics, medical devices, healthcare IT, diagnostics, consulting, venture capital, and investment banking. Prior to Propel Careers, Lauren was a senior account manager for SNBL USA where she worked with emerging biotech companies in Europe, Asia, and the US to help characterize and advance their drug molecules. Prior to SNBL USA, she held business development positions with Aptuit and Quintiles, where she focused on IND enabling studies to advance therapeutics from discovery into the clinic. Earlier in her career, Lauren held positions as a marketing manager and account manager at Absorption Systems, where she was responsible for managing life sciences companies in the northeastern United States. She has a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Gettysburg College and an MBA with a focus in the health sector and entrepreneurship from Boston University. Lauren is on the membership committee of the Boston Chapter of the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association and she also serves on the programming committee of the Capital Network.