Realizing Your Career Potential
The Power of Planning
Jennifer Lauria Clark, CPIP
LeAnna Pearson
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Agenda
• Intro – Self Story
• Where are you?
– Evaluate current position
• Where do you want to go?
– Develop your vision Statement
• What is your plan to get there?
– Mapping out your future
– Degree Certification
• Lessons Learned
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Jennifer Lauria Clark, CPIP
Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering
North Carolina State University – Raleigh, North Carolina
Biotech
OSD
Big Pharma
Big Pharma
Big Pharma
OSD
Big Pharma
OSD
2001
2005 – 2007
2007 – 2011
2007 – 2011
2012– 2014
GSK
AMEC
BioPharm
Yonkers
Industries
Yonkers
Industries
CAI
Summer
Intern,
Quality
Validation
Engineer
Leiner
Health
Products
Biogen Idec
2002 – 2005
JOINED ISPE
2002
Secretary,
NCSU
2005 – 2007
ISPE Intl,
SAC
Member
ISPE CaSA
SAC
Member
Validation
Engineer
Project
Manager
GSK, Biogen Idec, Becton
Dickinson, Merck
2007 – 2011
SAC Chair,
CaSA
SAC Chair,
Intl
2007 – 2011
Earned CPIP
ISPE CaSA
Sec, Treas,
VP
ISPE Intl
Chair, YP
Comm.
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Everything
Technical
Services
Manager
Commitment
Flexibility
Diversity
Science Based
Novo
Nordisk,
Shire,
Vertex,
Curemark
2012– 2014
ISPE CaSA
President
Director,
IBOD
YP Intl
Member
ISPE CaSA
Committee
Member
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LeAnna Pearson
Bachelor of Science in Biology, Salisbury University – Salisbury , MD
Masters of Science in Pharmaceutical Engineering, NCCU – Durham, NC
Social &
Scientific
Systems
2003-2010
Temp Lab
Tech I
Big Pharma
Grad School
Clinical Research
Biogen Idec
2009-2010
CRO/CMO
Catalent
Pharma
Soultions
2010-2013
Graduate CoOp (no pay)
Lab Tech II
QC
Internship
Lab Tech III
QC Lab
Associate I
Consulting
SpecLine
Consulting Inc.
2013-Current
Scientist
Sr. Validation
Scientist
Project
Director
Site Manager
Aptuit, Mecrk,
Hospria, Fuji Film
Dyosinth, Start-ups,
International
Companies
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Novartis,
Catalent, Fuji
Film Dyosinth
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Why Planning is Important?
This is the start of your Journey.
• To determine what your driver is.
– Money, status, advancement
• New Years Resolutions
– 25% people abandon after 1 week
– 60% after 6 months
• Write them down
• Find someone to be your accountability
partner
• Review them regularly
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Are you a leader or a follower?
IT’S OK!
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Handout
S
M
A
R
T
•Specific: State exactly what you want to accomplish (Who, What, Where,
Why)
•Measurable: How will you demonsttrate & evaluate the extent to which the
goal as been met.
•Achievable: Stretch & challenging goals within ability to achieve outcome.
What is the action oriented verb.
•Relevant: How does the goal tie into your key responsibilities? How is it
aligned to objectivves are your coompany?
•Time-Bound: Set 1 or more target dates, the "by when" to guide your goal
to successful & timely completion (include deadlines, dates & frequency)
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Paving the way.
• Degree Certifications - Do I need one
• Work Experience
• Internships
– GSK – Jennifer – got AMEC, Inc. job
– CO-OP – Biogen Idec – got temp job
• Organizations that helped you reach your goals
– ISPE
“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
Abraham Lincoln
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Lessons Learned
• Continue to make great first impressions
• Identify your strengths; solicit feedback
– Development vs. Execution
– Generalist vs. Specialist
• Deliver solutions, not excuses
• Define measurable outcomes
• Engage your colleagues in a common goal
– Ownership and Accountability
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Answer Definitively ‘Yes’
1. Do I know what is expected of me at work?
7. At work, do my opinions seem to count?
2. Do I have the equipment and material I
8. Does the mission/purpose of my company
make me feel my work is important?
need to do my work right?
3. At work, do I have the opportunity to do
what I do best every day?
9. Are my co-workers committed to doing
quality work?
10. Do I have a best friend at work?
4. In the last seven days, have I received
recognition or praise for good work?
5. Does my supervisor or someone at work
seem to care about me as a person?
11. In the last six months, have I talked to
someone about my progress?
12. This last year, have I had opportunities at
work to learn and grow?
6. Is there someone at work who encourages
my development?
*Buckingham, Marcus and Curt Coffman. First, Break All the
Rules. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Print.
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Next Steps
• Find a mentor and a champion
• Join Linked In YP Group
– ISPE Young Professional
• Engage in a professional scholastic reading group
(book club)?
• Go back and get engaged with your local chapter.
(www.ispe.org )
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Q&A
Jennifer Lauria Clark, CPIP
Jennifer.clark@cagents.com
LeAnna Pearson
LeAnnaPearson@gmail.com
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