Your Worthy Career
Welcome to Your Worthy Career, a podcast with Melissa Lawrence, a Career & Leadership Coach and former Talent & Development leader inside Pharma that helps women in Pharma and Biotech design their unique career path and build the skills to get a new job, get promotion, and advance their career.
Your Worthy Career
Latest Episodes
The Typical Career Advice That Stalls Pharma and Biotech Careers
Let’s talk about why typical career advice, even advice that might have worked for you before, isn’t working now. Things like looking at the org chart, scrolling job postings, waiting for your boss to make it happen, and padding your resume wit...
Smile More: Navigating the Boys Club in Pharma
Let’s talk about what it can be like to be a woman working in government, pharma, and biotech. Things like the idea was only recognized when a man repeated it. The comment in a team meeting that made you freeze. The 1-1 where you were told to s...
Don’t Let AI Take Your Voice
Most of the women I coach in pharma and biotech are worried AI will eventually take their jobs. AI is risking your opportunities, but not in the way you think.When you use AI for cover letters and resumes, the data show it le...
Stay or Go: How to Decide
Should You Stay or Should You Go? In this episode, I walk through the signs that something has to change, and then the actual decision logic I use with clients who are weighing an internal move against a full exit.In this e...
Overlooked to Promoted in One Month with Jennifer Jenkins
My client, Jennifer, spent four plus years as a clinical trial manager. Her leadership praised her, handed her work well above her level, and yet, her promotion didn't come. She had become too useful exactly where she was.Jen came into T...