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From Jodi
"What have you built?" — You need an answer to get a job in women's health.
If you haven't spent time building something with AI since February 2026, you're behind. Here's what that means for your job search — and what to do about it.
I'm going to be straight with you.
If you haven't spent time building something with Claude, ChatGPT, or whatever AI tool you actually use — since the Opus 4.6 release in early February — you are behind. Not a little behind. Meaningfully behind. And I say that not to scare you, but because I care about you getting hired, and the market shifted in a way that most people in this industry haven't fully absorbed yet.
The release of Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 in early February 2026 changed the game. Not theoretically. Practically. Hiring managers at the kinds of companies you want to work at are now asking a question in interviews they weren't asking six months ago:
Not "are you familiar with AI tools." Not "have you used ChatGPT." What have you built. There is a difference — and if you don't have a concrete answer, that gap will show up in the room. Everyone needs an answer for this. There's no excuse not to have one.
This isn't just a tech thing. We may not be seeing it everywhere yet, but we will — across commercial roles, operations, product, and clinical strategy. The companies hiring right now in women's health — Maven, Oura, Evvy, Seven Starling, Pomelo Care — are building with AI at every layer of their organizations. They want people who understand that, who can participate in it, and who've ideally already started doing it on their own.
What this looks like in practice
I had a student in the Career Mastermind a few cohorts ago who knew she wanted to work at Evvy or Oura. As a product person, she spent time actually building a product that solved her own women's health needs. Then when it came time to answer product process questions in her interview, she pulled up what she had built. That's the answer to "what have you built." It's specific. It's real. And it changes the entire energy of the conversation.
Until recently, that kind of advantage belonged to engineers. Someone who worked at Meta as a software engineer could build something and show it. That was a meaningful differentiator. Now everyone can do that.
In the last six weeks I've rebuilt the 51& member platform, built multiple websites for IWH programs, built a hospital bill checker, an insurance parsing tool, rebuilt my entire CRM, and a real-time dashboard for the IWH business. I also used it to write Easter egg hunt clues as the Easter Bunny for my 3 and 5 year old. I'm not telling you this to brag — I'm telling you because if I can do all of that while running two companies, you can build something this week.
What this means for your job search right now
You have to use AI to be found. Recruiters and hiring managers are using AI to search for candidates. If your digital presence isn't optimized for that, you're invisible.
You have to use AI in your search. From targeting the right companies to writing outreach that actually lands — the people moving fastest are using these tools actively, not occasionally.
You have to use AI to demonstrate your impact. The interview question is "what have you built." Build something. Show it. That's the answer.
So many of you have asked me about exactly this — in webinars, in one-on-one conversations, at conferences. How are other people actually using AI in their job search? What does it look like to use AI to demonstrate your impact before you even get in the room? How do you make sure you're being found? I want to pull us all together to have that conversation. Not a lecture — a real conversation, with all of you, about what's working and what's not. And yes, we'll talk about the Women's Health Career Mastermind — where AI has become a central part of the work I do with a very select group of 20 people a couple of times a year.
Start here — join me this Friday
This Friday, April 17 at 12:30pm EST, I'm running a free session called Be FOUND: Future-Proof Your Women's Health Career in the AI Era. We're going to cover exactly how recruiting has changed, what hiring managers are looking for right now, and a 5-step framework for making sure your expertise is visible and discoverable.
It's free. It's an hour. If you've been feeling like the ground shifted under your job search and you're not quite sure why — this is the session for you.
The women landing roles right now aren't just more qualified. They're more visible, more current, and more prepared to speak to this moment. That's a skill you can build. Start Friday.
See you Friday,
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