ASCP 2024 Workforce Lounge: Discover Resources to Boost Your Career & Attract and Retain Staff

Stop by the ASCP Workforce Lounge during the ASCP 2024 Annual Meeting to connect with fellow attendees and discover tools, resources, and practical knowledge for pathologists and laboratory professionals who are looking to expand their organizational development, recruit new employees or retain existing staff, or seek new employment.

You will find the ASCP Workforce Lounge located by the registration desk. Here are a few things you can learn about at the Workforce Lounge:
• Stay informed of job marketplace & industry trend updates, view industry occupation roles/titles
• See a CDC OneLab VR (Virtual Reality Laboratory) Demo
• View wage/vacancy rates
• View Workforce Maps on Tableau and Workforce Survey Reports
• Get up-to-date on ASCP’s collaboration in support of the CDC OneLabTM Initiative
• Learn about new, free training resources for laboratory professionals through ASCP’s CDC OneLabTM grant
• Dig into the ASCP Negotiation & Advocacy Toolbox and win a chance at a daily prize
• Chat with ASCP volunteer mentors who can offer attendees professional guidance and support
• Discuss continuing education opportunities
• Review career advancement opportunities including Career Exploration Tools and job search resources

Session Offering
This year, the Workforce Lounge is organizing a session on the challenges the field is facing in recruiting the next generation of laboratory professionals and proposed solutions. Please make sure to watch our session before the Annual Meeting during the "Path to Chicago" available on-demand:

Non-traditional Recruitment Methods for the Next Generation of Laboratory Professionals
This course will address the need to improve entry of the laboratory professionals into the field, through examining creative recruitment strategies both in employment and academic settings that the presenters have implemented in their institutions with success.

Register here for the ASCP 2024 Annual Meeting!