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Niteesa Brooks shares her journey from social work to a successful career in health tech and pharmaceutical research, emphasizing the importance of networking and reframing one's professional identity.

In this episode, I chat with Niteesa Brooks, MSW, a program manager who took her social work degree into health tech, pharmaceutical research, and financial technology. Niteesa graduated from Columbia University in 2018 and has spent her career building out programs and processes at the intersection of healthcare and technology. Niteesa gets specific about how she navigated the job search, how she networked her way into roles, and why she stopped marketing herself as a social worker and started marketing herself as someone who "solves problems". This is a great episode for those who are interested in practicing social work in a non-clinical setting, but are not sure how to get started down that path. We chat about: How Niteesa went from wanting to be a sports psychologist to working in health tech and pharmaceutical research What program management actually is and how social work skills translate directly into it Why she didn't market herself as a social worker on her resume and what she did instead How to use LinkedIn to find social workers working in non-clinical spaces and learn from their career paths What she witnessed while working inside pharmaceutical research Resources…

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