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"Success is When Preparation Meets Opportunity” 


During this webinar, members and alums will learn how to craft a proper resume and cover letter, create an elevator pitch, and explore ways to exude confidence when highlighting professional successes. 


Zoila Reyna, MPH, Founder of Public Health Hired, shares a presentation about key strategies for resume and elevator pitch creation and Erik Gottleib, Director of Staffing and Recruiting at ASTHO joins a conversation discussing what hiring managers look for in resumes when fielding applications. 


As a bonus, attendees can participate in the optional LIVE Office Hours on February 8, 2024 from 3-4 pm EST, to fine-tune their resumes, practice their elevator pitches, and ask questions with NNPHI, CDCF, and PHA staff on the hiring process. This session has limited office hours, so “real-time” practice is limited to a first-come, first-served basis. Link to register: https://www.bigmarker.com/nnphi/PHA-office-hours

Timestamps

3:42 How to Prepare for Career Fair
17:20 Guided Activity: Elevator Pitches
37:04 Interview with Erik Gottlieb, Hiring Expert

Presenters

  • Amy Jacobs, MPH (she/they)

    NNPHI, NCCPHT Program Manager

    Amy Jacobs is a Program Manager for the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT) within the National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI). Her focus is Project ECHO, a program she’s drawn to because of its mission to deinstitutionalize best practices for equity and innovation in healthcare.

    Amy’s public health journey started as a FoodCorps AmeriCorps service member in Camden, New Jersey. Through her role in FoodCorps, she solidified her ethos of care, community, and equity in public health. She worked in program management at FoodCorps for years after, supporting health justice in the northeastern United States and beyond.

    In 2021, Amy graduated with a Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. Most recently, Amy served as the Chief of Staff on the operations and executive leadership teams for the Maryland Department of Health’s Covid-19 Recovery Program. Since living in Baltimore, she has completed meaningful studies with Health Justice Commons and A Sacred Passing, worked at a local nonprofit as a curriculum development manager and training facilitator, and served as a caregiver for older adults.

    In her free time, Amy serves on the board of the Mental Health Emergency Fund, a Baltimore-based nonprofit that offers stipends and peer support to folks in need. She is also an avid gardener, a dance enthusiast, and a dog parent to a lively cattle dog mix named Luna.

  • Ajay Persaud, MPH, CPH (he/him)

    NNPHI Senior Program Associate, Climate and Crisis Preparedness

    Ajay is a Senior Program Associate within the Climate and Crisis Preparedness program. He supports key programmatic work in CCP projects including Project Firstline, an-infection prevention and control initiative, and the Coaching for Enhanced Disease Intervention Skills program, and other environmental health projects.

    Ajay’s passion for public health began in high school when he joined his local volunteer EMS agency and discovered emergency preparedness and response. His goal to protect families and communities alike from natural and man-made disasters has guided him to advocate for improved climate change adaptation and mitigation research and projects.

    Ajay holds his master’s degree in public health with a concentration in Environmental and Occupational Health from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. His graduate thesis focused assessing the impact that wildfire smoke may have on climate change and its implications. Prior to joining NNPHI, Ajay was an Emergency Medical Technician and telecommunications operator at the George Washington University Department of Emergency Medicine.

  • Garlie St-Cyr, MPH (she/her)

    NNPHI, NCCPHT Program Assistant

    Garlie is the Project ECHO Program Assistant for the National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training (NCCPHT) team. She will be coordinating ECHO-related activities and providing administrative and logistical support across NCCPHT.

    She earned her Bachelors in Public Health, a minor in Healthcare Management, and her Master of Public Health degree concentrated in Health Policy and Management at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Garlie is proud to be from a Haitian immigrant family, and her interests lie in creating and coordinating equitable and sustainable programs and resources for different communities.

    Her previous experiences include performing a qualitative program evaluation for a resettlement agency, creating and facilitating health promotion workshops for college students, and supporting health equity program efforts within a health department. Garlie is excited to be a part of NNPHI and continue growing her public health career in the DC area! Garlie fills her cup through traveling, trying new restaurants and recipes, and volunteering.

  • Zoila Reyna, MPH (she/her)

    Founder of Public Health Hired

    Passionate and dedicated leader advancing advocacy and grassroots outreach on public health issues, bringing 15 years of experience organizing and implementing community health programs, building strategic alliances with diverse underserved communities, CBOs, local and national healthcare organizations.

  • Erik Gottleib, RACR

    ASTHO Director of Recruiting and Staffing

    Responsible for overseeing the entire recruiting process for companies ranging from consulting to manufacturing to software development. These responsibilities include managing and filling multiple requirements in a timely manner as well as developing recruiting processes, strategies and programs to streamline the recruiting department.

Webinar: 3. Career Fair Preparation Part 1: Resumes and Elevator Pitches by National Network of Public Health Institutes