#21: Find a dream job and jumpstart your career

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Summary:

Advance your career and expertly navigate the job hunt with guidance from Dr. Alia Chisty of Temple University Hospital. Highlights include Dr. Chisty offering up her personal email address for mentorship and Dr. Watto announcing our first contest. This episode is full of wisdom to enhance your career whether you're gainfully employed or looking for your first job.

Clinical Pearls:

Meet with your mentors at the start of the process. They can:
1. Help clarify your goals
2. Activate your network
Look for jobs 9 months in advance.
An ideal job: incorporates your interests, skills, and values.
Leverage your network (friends, mentors, program director) to identify available opportunities
Email your cover letter (typically an email) and CV to the division chair or section chief
1. Craft your elevator pitch.
2. Do your homework.
3. Explain how you will add value.
When interviewing:
Give yourself credit! Highlight experiences in your CV (e.g. conference attendance, lectures given, etc.)
Have someone review and proofread your CV.
If an employer makes a promise, then have it included in your contract. Don’t just take their word!
Have a lawyer review your contract.

Goal: Listeners will learn to craft a systematized approach to finding their perfect job.

Learning objectives:

By the end of this podcast listeners will:

Recognize timeline for applications and finding or switching jobs.
Design an effective CV and cover letter.
Recognize the importance and utility of mentors in the application process

Disclosures:

Dr. Chisty reports no relevant financial disclosures.

Time Stamps

0:20 Intro

03:40 Rapid fire questions

07:10 When to start looking for jobs

09:22 How to narrow your focus

11:33 Too many choices may be worse

13:05 Asking yourself the right questions

14:40 Quick recap of what we

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0:00.0	So, Matt, I think you can see why I wanted to leave to talk about this.
0:03.0	Like, you guys have been talking for what, five minutes, and she's already wildly protective
0:07.2	and giving you great career advice. Yeah, I need it.
0:20.0	Welcome back to The Curve Siders, the internal medicine podcast that uses expert interviews
0:24.8	to bring you clinical pearls and practice changing knowledge. I'm your host, Dr. Matthew Wato,
0:29.6	here with my co-host, Dr. Paul Williams. Hey, Paul.
0:34.0	Hey, Matt, how are you? Good.
0:36.5	Conspicuously absent on this episode is Dr. Stewart Kent Brigham,
0:41.4	Stewart. We miss you, buddy, but I know you'll be back for the next one.
0:45.3	Stewart is at a conference, a fancy conference, mixing it up. But Paul, this episode, can you explain
0:53.7	to us the idea behind this episode? Well, you're sure happy to. So, for me, you know,
0:59.3	as someone who's happily and comfortably already in sconce in a pretty cushy job in academic
1:04.3	medicine, I don't need this episode so much. But for you, for someone who's now currently on the
1:08.8	job hunt, I think that we decided that you need as much help as humanly possible. So, we've
1:14.4	invited the great doctor, Leigh, I just sort of tell us how to go about the job hunt, how to
1:19.2	think about things before preparing for it, identifying a timeline, the interview day, the whole
1:23.2	line, just to sort of maximize your chance to success. So, I can continue to ride your coattails.
1:28.0	As always, this episode for me is totally self-serving. But I think it will also help our listeners.
1:37.4	That's the way that I get that I can sleep with myself at night or live with myself. Anyway.
1:44.0	So, Dr. Chissey is currently an associate program director and the medical director of the
1:48.8	resident outpatient practice at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. She completed her residency
1:54.8	at Yale and went on to pursue a general internal medicine fellowship at UCSF. And she is a particular
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