Transcript Evaluating Your Post-Grad Options: Strategies for Successful Decision Making Josh Lord, M.B.A. Director of Membership and Strategic Initiatives Michigan Dental Association @ASDAnet #ASDAnet.

Evaluating Your Post-Grad
Options: Strategies for
Successful Decision Making
Josh Lord, M.B.A.
Director of Membership and Strategic Initiatives
Michigan Dental Association
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Themes
• Plan strategically
• Establish stability
• Obtain security
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Agenda
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Introduction
Your questions
Pressures and vision
Strategic planning
Resources
Advice
Q&A
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Credentials
• Hired to generate 33% of $6M operating
budget @ 24 years-old
• Launched MDA’s Career Services Center
• Successfully supported aspirations of
family, friends, friends-of-friends, dental
students, new dentists
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Tapped resources
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ADA New Dentist Mentor of the Year, private practice owner/associate,
part-time faculty at UM SoD
Member, ADA’s New Dentist Committee, private practice owner/former
public health dentist
Chairperson, MDA’s Membership Committee, private practice
owner/former associate
Former UM ASDA president, UCLA endo resident
Former UM ASDA president, Loyola OMS resident
Student Affairs Director, UDM SoD
Class of 2009 Graduate, private practice owner/former associate
Financial planner, specializes in dentistry
– Clients include who’s who of MDA members
M.B.A. Career Services, Michigan State University
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Under pressure
Family
Significant
Other
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My vision for life @ 30 @ 22
• Executive-level compensation
• Department director for a high-profile
organization
• Obtain M.B.A.
• Establish reputation as go-to within industry
• Be positioned for career advancement
• Secure stability for family
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Evaluating career options
• Do you have a career strategic plan?
– Short-term choices should facilitate
accomplishment of long-term plan
– Make the best choice for this moment as long as it
corresponds to your long-term plan
– Identify gaps, make choices that fill them
– Don’t buy into external pressure
– MindMeister
• Know you will be OK!
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Core questions
Self
• What are my expectations?
• What are my goals?
• What is my tolerance for risk?
• Am I comfortable practicing unsupervised?
• Is my GPA competitive?
• Do I like delivering patient care?
• Am I prepared to actively manage and lead
a business?
• Debt management
• Family impact
• Resource/time constraints
Obligations
Opportunity
• Who do I want to work for?
• Who do I want to work with?
• Do I like this community – personal, practice, family?
• Life-work balance?
• Intangibles?
• Does this feel right?
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Resources
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People as resources
• Make connections – over, and over, and
over again
• People who have made similar choices
recently
• Informational interviews
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Informational interviews
• Three goals:
– Become informed
– Build connections
– Indirect way to distribute resume/CV
• Can I have 15-30 minutes of your time to get
advice about [insert decision here]?
• Do you know of anyone else I should reach out
to for advice?
• Would you mind giving me feedback on my
resume/CV?
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Consultants,
Seasoned
DDS
Ring of Resources
ADA Network,
Media, Peers,
CE, Faculty,
Admin
Friends,
Family
Mentors
Informational
Interviews,
Site Visits,
People
Recently in
Your Spot
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Online/digital resources
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Compensation Reports
Career Services
www.onetonline.org
LinkedIn
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Just my opinion
Advice based on being in your shoes, hiring,
getting hired, and helping others find and land jobs
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Don’t be entitled
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Your reputation precedes you
Be selective, not picky
Contrast the stereotype
A foot in the door in an administrative role is
better than the alternative
• Good way to learn
• Additional part-time employment can bridge the
gap and provide you with additional skills
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Get involved
• Sets you apart given peer comparisons
• Student leadership provides visibility to pros
• Next to clinical accomplishments, provides best
fodder for resumes
• Translates into involvement with professional
organization, increasing job prospects
• Patterns of leadership and initiative
– Volunteerism/involvement translating into
leadership
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Remember the impact of
social media
• Employers do check, impacts hiring
decision
• Build LinkedIn presence early, proactively
connect with influencers
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Informational interviews
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Gain insight, and perspective on resume
Build your network
Indirect way to share your resume
Learn about the city/industry from people living it
Facilitates networking and movement of your
resume
• Use LinkedIn to find alumni
– Be polite, courteous, and always say thank you
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Customize documents
• Develop based on role and link to
candidacy
• Generic versions are easy to spot
• Personal statement/cover letter should
contain a single theme and ah-ha moment
• Communicate distinct value
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Use alumni network
• One of the best tools
• Great for informational interviews
• Contact state dental society or alumni
association
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Create relationships with
faculty
• Part-time
• Used to work in profession
• Often under utilized
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Talk to people
• Pick up the phone and call
• Send hand-written thank you notes
• Emails are lazy
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Summary
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What are you taking home today?
You will be OK!
Write a plan, and get feedback
Network
Informational interviews
Don’t be entitled
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Contact me
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[email protected]
[email protected]
517-346-9415
www.linkedin.com/in/joshuadlord
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