In Women’s Health
Webinar Recap — April 23, 2026

Building a 10-Step Plan for Your Career in Women’s Health

1,500 women’s health companies. 3,000 applications per role. Passion alone won’t get you in. A plan will.

The Reality

Getting a job in women’s health is harder than getting one in finance.

Yesterday we covered the resume. Today we covered everything that happens before the resume ever gets read — and everything that has to happen after it does. 70 to 80% of women’s health roles are filled through relationships. The other 20 to 30% are buried under 3,000 applications in the first 72 hours. Hoping to get noticed is not a strategy.

The 10 steps are the strategy. Rate yourself honestly on each one. Where you score high, keep going. Where you score low, that’s the work.

Grab the 10-Step self-assessment template and score yourself 1–10 on each step as you read.

Thank you for spending your Thursday afternoon with me. I know the women’s health job market right now is brutal, and I know how much of your energy it takes to keep showing up anyway. You did the hard work today — you rated yourself honestly and you know where your gaps are. That’s the whole game.

Remember: Step 1 is networking, and it’s the step that moves the other nine the fastest. So I’ll see you tomorrow at 2pm ET at the April IWH Networking Event. Come meet the people who will become your warm intros, your advocates, and — if history is any indicator — your next role.

And if today reminded you that you want to stop doing this alone, the Mastermind starts Monday. I’d love to have you in the room.

See you tomorrow,

Jodi

The Framework

Your 10-Step Plan

Some steps will come easily. Others will reveal exactly where to focus. Both are useful.

01
Build Your Network
70 to 80% of roles in women’s health are filled through relationships. Build a target list of 15 companies and 15 people — one-third to strengthen, one-third new and developing, one-third aspirational. Take action every single day.
02
Know Your Unique Value Add
Riches are in niches. Ask five people who know you best: “When I walk into a room, what walks in with me?” Don’t explain the question. Just listen. Those words tell you your essence — and become the thread you pull through your resume, pitch, LinkedIn, and every interview.
03
Zero In on Your Ideal Role
The job search is exhausting — focus wins. Find the sweet spot between your unique value add, your area of women’s health, and your functional expertise. The people getting hired fastest know whether they’re going after maternal health, menopause, autoimmune, or cardiovascular. Pick your lane.
04
Get Discovered
Train the LinkedIn algorithm that you’re human and that you can actually do what your profile says you can do. Pull five themes from real job descriptions, multiply them across five content types (listicle, story, observation, then vs. now, contrarian), and you have 25 post ideas. Please don’t post the AI output raw. Take out the em-dashes.
05
Tell Your Story
You need three versions, rehearsed until they’re second nature: a 1–2 sentence pitch, a 30-second pitch, and a 2.5 to 5-minute long-form story. If the only thing an interviewer hears is your long-form story, it should be enough to move you to the next round.
06
Find Open Roles
You need to apply in the first 24–48 hours. Companies increasingly aren’t paying to post on LinkedIn — hiring managers post to their own feed instead. Set Google Alerts, learn Boolean search (“hiring” + “join my team” + role), and subscribe to a real job board. The IWH job board syncs with the ATS of 122 women’s health companies in real time.
07
A Resume Built for Women’s Health
Of the 30 resumes reviewed in yesterday’s workshop, zero were ready. A women’s health resume needs three things: a summary only you could have written, an impact section that aggregates career-wide numbers (not one company at a time), and a women’s health section in the top third — professional, volunteer, advocacy, or personal.
08
Interview with Impact
The resume’s job is to get the interview. The first interview’s job is to get the next one. Don’t swing for the fences. Every answer: 90 seconds looking back (what you did, what you learned), 30 seconds looking forward (how that translates to this role). Then send a thank-you with a deliverable attached — something that makes the hiring manager’s job easier.
09
Negotiate Your Role
Negotiation starts in interview one — not when the offer letter arrives. Compensation is only one lever. The others: resources, budget, support, visibility to senior leadership, review cadence, and equity (run the math on the actual exit scenario before you accept equity in lieu of cash).
10
Set Yourself Up for Success
You have 90 days to make a full first impression. Jen Hyman of Rent the Runway says she knows within 90 to 180 days whether a hire will work — and she’s gotten faster at firing. Build a pre-start plan, a 30/60/90, and a framework for vulnerably telling your new team who you are and what you need to be successful.

Today you got the framework. The Mastermind is where we apply all 10 steps to your actual materials — together.

The Career Mastermind — Cohort starts Monday, April 27

Do all 10 steps together, with feedback on every draft.

Four weeks, twice a week, 12–2pm ET. You walk out with a rewritten resume, LinkedIn, cover letter, pitch, 90-day plan — and for the first time this cohort, a career dashboard built in Claude that maps your full network and shows you exactly where the gaps are. One-to-one feedback from me and the cohort on every piece.

You walk away with
✓  A rewritten resume, LinkedIn, and cover letter
✓  Your 1-2 sentence pitch, 30-second pitch, and long-form story
✓  A 15-page report on your strengths, triggers, and conditions for success
✓  A career dashboard in Claude mapping your full network
✓  25+ templates for outreach, agendas, follow-ups, and thank-yous
✓  Warm intros to women’s health recruiters and hiring managers
✓  Alumni community with monthly cohort meetings after the program
🎁 Bonus — expires Friday, April 24 at midnight

Sign up by midnight tomorrow and we’ll include a full year of IWH Pro membership — not the standard 3 months.

That’s a $708 value, on top of the Mastermind. Same-day access to the job board, Slack community, and member events.

Seats
20 seats only — a few left
Investment
$1,249 — payment plans available
Guarantee
100% money-back
Code
IWH100 saves $100
Claim Your Seat →

IWH members get an additional discount — email [email protected]

The Proof

From our Mastermind alumni

“The Mastermind gave me the tools and confidence to navigate my career with clarity and purpose.”

Susan Willis

“The Women’s Health Mastermind was the fire starter I needed. The structured approach and supportive community helped me refine my career direction and take action.”

Carley Lauren Hauck

“It provided me with a roadmap to break into the women’s health industry and gave me connections I wouldn’t have found elsewhere.”

Sydney Perlotto

“Joining the 10-Step Mastermind and connecting with like-minded professionals was one of the best career moves I’ve made. The insights and networking opportunities are truly game-changing.”

Ariel Zuckerman

Read all of the testimonials →

Keep Building

Resources to go deeper

The deep-dive on Step 4. How to train your algorithm, build your content matrix, and make hiring managers find you. Watch →

AI has rewritten how candidates get discovered. What that means for you — and what to do now. Watch →

Score yourself 1–10 on each step. Identify gaps. Build your plan. Open template →

100+ curated women’s health jobs every Monday, plus ecosystem news and insights. Subscribe →

The largest database of women’s health talent. Free. Upload your resume and get found by the companies hiring. Join →

Private Slack community, real-time job alerts from Jodi, full access to the IWH job board with 122+ companies, member events, and program discounts. Become a member →

Stay Close

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Office hours, company deep dives, networking sessions, webinars — follow our Luma calendar to see everything as it’s added.

P.S.

We are officially the first career program in women’s health where your homework includes building a dashboard in Claude — which means if you sign up on Monday and your career coach is an AI, it’s technically a feature, not a bug. Bring your network. We’ll bring the prompts. 🤖

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