Seeking to advance your career, enhance your professional development and leadership skills in pathology or lab medicine?
Sign up for ASCP’s Career Services Day on September 18, as part of the Path to Boston preceding the ASCP 2021 Annual Meeting. Check out the variety of programming, which includes career and wage progression strategies, a virtual networking lunch, a workshop on resume building, mentoring sessions, mock interviews and speakers sharing their expertise on a variety of topics.
Guest speaker Rodney Rohde, PhD, Chair of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program in the College of Health Professions at Texas State University (TSU), will talk about this experience with his role as a global subject matter expert during the SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 pandemic. An ASCP board-certified specialist in virology, microbiology and molecular biology, he is also associate director for the Translational Health Research Center at TSU. His presentation on these topics will allow participants to leverage their expertise to increase the laboratory field’s visibility to recruit more professionals into the field.
Medical laboratory scientist Tywuana Wilson, MBA, MLS(ASCP)
CM will present a session, How to Attract Your Next All-Star to Complement Your Laboratory Team. Ms. Wilson is the owner of Trendy Elite Coaching and Consulting and system technical director of chemistry for a regional laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. She is also an author, entrepreneur and leadership mentor who helps professionals land their dream role.
Aaron Odegard, MS, MLS(ASCP)
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CM, chair of ASCP’s Council of Laboratory Professionals, will present a course on how to leverage data for decision making. A medical laboratory scientist in the infectious diagnostics laboratory at Baptist Health, a community-based health system in Jacksonville, Fla., he has spent the past year encouraging colleagues and other ASCP members to actively make use of the ASCP resources and other tools that are available in order to successfully advocate for their laboratory’s needs.
Among other activities, ASCP will present mentoring sessions and mock interviews. The mentoring sessions offer the chance to work one-on-one with another professional to learn more about their field’s industry demands, career expectations, job outlooks and career opportunities. The mock interviews allow participants to practice creating effective responses to interview questions, work on nonverbal communication skills, and become familiar with a variety of interview environments.
Sign up for these one-on-one mentoring sessions or mock interviews begins September 18 on the Career Services page through the virtual meeting platform. Participants will be able to view the mentor and mock interviewers' biographies and schedule sessions via their personal scheduling link provided on the Career Services page. These half-hour sessions will continue through October 29.
In addition to the offerings available during the Path to Boston, there will be many more resources available during the ASCP 2021 Annual Meeting, Oct. 27-29. Participants can attend the meeting live in Boston, or virtually. Discover more career services resources on the ASCP 2021 Annual Meeting website and register today at ascp.org/2021.
