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
The Method This Job Market Needs
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This job market needs a different approach - tune in to hear why.
If you’ve been applying to roles, asking for promotions, taking on stretch work, and getting ghosted or hearing “not yet” or “there’s no budget,” this conversation is for you.
When budgets tighten and leaders become selective, performance alone isn’t enough. In these environments, they don’t promote or hire “good enough.” They move toward the person who feels necessary. And when the rules aren’t clear, it’s easy to internalize stalled growth as a personal failure instead of a strategic gap.
So I'm also going to share the insider conversations that happen behind closed doors of leadership meetings.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why performance reviews and stretch assignments don’t automatically lead to advancement
- What talent conversations actually focus on behind closed doors
- How lack of clarity gets exposed quickly in a tight market
- Why perception and positioning matter as much as credentials
- Details about my book releasing February 24th - Your Worthy Career: A Science-Backed Method to Build a Meaningful Career in Pharma and Biotech.
If you’ve been wondering why it feels harder than it should, this episode will help you see what’s really happening—and what to think about differently.
Get the Book: Your Worthy Career: A Science-Backed Method to Build a Meaningful Career in Pharma and Biotech here.
Work with Me: Learn more and apply to work with me here.
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