Here I compile the 6 most popular public health millennial blog post of 2020.
Thank you to all of you for tuning in to the blog post this year. I look forward to sharing more value with you all in the coming year.
I hope you all check out these 6 post and bookmark them if you need them for future use! If you’ve read them already, thank you and I hope you found it valuable.
Have a great rest of your year and happy new year to you and yours!
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1) How To Search For Jobs During Covid-19
How To Search For Jobs During Covid-19
I can completely understand why this was the top blog post on my website in 2020. With Covid-19 coming out of nowhere and the public health job landscape changing as a result, I can see why this was the most popular.
Job Searching hasn’t changed a whole lot except that you are going to have to be a lot more proactive during this time. But this shouldn’t be a far cry from what your normal job searching process looks like.
Use the tips in the post to strengthen how you go about searching for jobs during and even after Covid-19.
2) The Dilemma of Contact Tracer Jobs For Public Health Professionals
The Dilemma of Contact Tracer Jobs For Public Health Professionals
As Covid-19 raged on in the early days, it was hard to search for any public health jobs without coming across Contact Tracer roles. Contact Tracer roles are vitally important to the stop of spread of disease (Covid-19 and others). However, they don’t truly offer a huge value add especially to newly graduated Master of Public Health students.
Additionally, contact tracing was done dramatically different in different states (even counties) and the US didn’t have any powers other than to ‘recommend’ that people take the recommendations of contact Tracers.
The dilemma came as this was the only opportunity out there for many public health people to apply to yet it wasn’t a role that was going to be something that you can grow into nor really utilize many skillsets learnt.
3) 5 Transferable Skills For Public Health Students
5 Transferable Skills For Public Health Students
This article was a part of a 3 part article post about Transferable Skills For Public Health Students.
These first 5 skills were:
- Networking
- Needs Assessments
- Data Management & Analysis
- Report Writing
- Collaboration
These 5 skills can play a large role in your roles after undergraduate or graduate school in public health. You should be focusing on building these transferable skills as well as skills that are specific to whatever you are studying.
4) Career Chat With The Public Health Millennial
Career Chat With The Public Health Millennial
Early this year I had a couple of Zoom calls where I was walking through my career search process with public health students.
Here I outline the things that I think through when I am looking at applying for jobs. I walk you through what to do before applying, where to search for jobs, why say yes to a job, what to do when looking and some other tips.
This is a great read if you are starting to think about applying for public health jobs.
5) 5 Transferable Skills For Public Health Students Part 2
5 Transferable Skills For Public Health Students Part 2
This was part 2 of the 3 part Transferable Skills For Public Health Students.
Theses next 5 skills were:
- Qualitative Skills
- Presentation Skills
- Grant Research and Writing
- Critical Thinking
- Project Management
Always think about what you can do to set yourself apart from the other students around you. Everyone goes to school, takes classes, but what else can you do that will set you apart. When thinking about this, think about ways that you can demonstrate that you have developed these transferable skills.
6) 4 Things I Wish I Did During Graduate School (MPH)
4 Things I Wish I Did During Graduate School (MPH)
Your graduate school program is going to end a lot quicker than you expect. So you should definitely try to make the most out of experiences and opportunities that come your way. Check out this article to see the 4 things I wish did during my Master of Public Health Program are:
- Systems > Goals
- Do More Case Competitions
- Present At More Conferences
- Taking Courses Outside My Degree
There are many opportunities that you can take advantage of during your Master of Public Health program, always think about how is this going to teach me something, help me illustrate a skillset in a interview, or add to my resume.
Set yourself apart by doing the things that everyone else does not.
Conclusion
Here are the top 6 blog post of 2020.
- How To Search For Jobs During Covid-19
- The Dilemma of Contact Tracer Jobs For Public Health Professionals
- 5 Transferable Skills For Public Health Students
- Career Chat With The Public Health Millennial
- 5 Transferable Skills For Public Health Students Part 2
- 4 Things I Wish I Did During Graduate School (MPH)
These have been the most looked at post and I hope you all got value from these to take into your public health career.
Which article this year was most helpful to you?
