1. Follow up and Maintain your Network after you Land a Job
12/1/2018
Follow up and Maintain your Network after you Land a Job
Lauren Celano
Founder and CEO, Propel Careers

2. Outline Why should you follow up? Who should you follow up with?
How to follow up
Tips to stay in contact throughout your Career

3. Why Follow-up After you Land a Job
Build your “professional” connections
Show you are serious about your career
Show you are relationship focused
Helps you to keep in touch

4. Job Search Tips – Contact List
Name
Referred By / Met
Date Spoken To
Notes / Follow up
Lisa Smith
Jason Hertzog
March 1, 2018
Informational Interview - Send her list of additional questions about research in industry
Jack Campbell
March 3, 2018
list of companies interested in. Extremely friendly.
Emily Smith
Met at XX conference
March
Networking: Alumnus of same college
Ed Connor
Met through LinkedIn
March 14, 2018
Similar path to me – send resume to critique

5. Networking Tree
Keep track of who you met, how you have been connected – it becomes a maze of sorts…

6. Who to follow up with After you secure a position, email people who:
you spoke with for informational interviews or formal interviews
referred you to individuals
you met through networking
Are in your institution and career offices
Are Friends
Others

7. Following up with your Network
After you secure a position, people
To let know that you found a role
To provide your new contact details ( , title, company, etc)
To stay in touch
People like to see where “people have landed”
You have now joined the “professional industry community”. Leverage this.

8. Sample Follow-up Email
Title: Lauren Celano new role Dear Lisa, Thank you so much for the guidance you provided during my job search. I am happy to let you know that I have chosen a position with COMPANY as a TITLE. I start on May 15, I am very excited to begin my industry career. I look forward to keeping in touch and hope our paths will cross in the future. Please let me know if I can do anything for you. With kind regards, Lauren Celano Phone

9. Follow-up Tips
When you come across articles about industry trends, a relevant paper, or an issue a former colleague worked on, send an with a quick note saying “thought this may be of interest.”
Confidential; Not for Distribution. December 1, 2018

10. A Few Additional Things…
Update LinkedIn
Update your summary section
Add your new job and a description of your role
Update your resume
Develop / update your Bio

11. Follow-up Throughout your Career
Your former colleagues, classmates, Community Health Alunni, and supervisors are a networking goldmine:
They know your background, they know your work, and they have their own set of professional contacts. Keep in touch with them.
Send at least a holiday card / .
Did you get a job or a promotion?
Let your old bosses and colleagues know, and thank them for the experiences they’ve given you that helped you get to this point.
Confidential; Not for Distribution. December 1, 2018

12. Join an Industry Association
Such as:
Community Health Worker (CHW)
Community Health Association
American Health Care Association
Boston Young Healthcare Professionals Network
Etc
Get Involved in your new Career Community – the time and effort will pay off

13. Get Involved Membership Committee Programming Committee
Board, eventually
Attend Events Regularly related to your career interest in order to develop relationships with individuals in industry who share similar interests and career pathways

14. Give Back Be a panelist on Career Panels at your institution or others
Mentor, “an aspiring you” on their career path
Mentor with Foundations or other groups that foster Community Health education
Try to allocate a coffee a month to provide others with insight about your career path
Get Involved in your new Career Community – the time and effort will pay off

15. Networking is a Life Long Skill
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Continue to network even after you get a job
This builds your network and industry knowledge
This builds your “industry brand”
Enables connections
Builds relationships which are valuable to your future career

16. Contact Details Fueling Innovation. Fostering Leaders.
12/1/2018
Lauren Celano Founder and CEO, Propel Careers
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Fueling Innovation. Fostering Leaders.