Data Science Jobs: Career Guide for Students & Professionals
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Data Science Jobs: Career Guide for Students & Professionals
A quick and easy guide to land your dream job in the analytics and datascience field. Author is a senior datascience professional who has worked for prominent companies like NASDAQ, BlackRock and TD bank.
How can this book help you?
Help you start getting interview calls from hiring managers.
Tested techniques to reduce your job-search time by 2 to 4 weeks.
The chapters in this book can be broadly classified into the themes below:
Personal Branding - How to create an irresistible online profile that helps you bubble up when hiring managers look for candidates. Use SEO principles to tweak your resume and make job offers come to you!
LinkedIn - A dedicated chapter on LinkedIn that teaches you some creative (and SECRET) ways to leverage the site, and identify high-paying jobs with low competition. Do not restrict LinkedIn use only for accepting random invitations or playing with the "Apply button".
Strategic Networking - Referrals are the easiest and fastest way to get a jobs, so don't passively wait to make connections, seek them out. This book will tell you how to meet the decision makers who can offer you a fantastic job.
Niche sites - Beat the competition by checking out these completely overlooked niche job boards. Hint: smaller job boards have fewer listings, but most are high-quality and offer market pay.
Upwork - despite popular opinion (about the site's ineffectiveness), this site is a quick way to earn money and position yourself for your dream role.
And many more...
Unlike most job search books that are written by recruiters, the author is an active datascience practitioner, who rose quickly from analyst to managerial roles. She has attended interviews of her own, and knows clearly the frustrations (and at times, hopelessness) of the job search process.
The strategies in this book have successfully helped dozens of job seekers and will help you too!
Read this book if you belong to any of the following categories:
Students (including F-1 international students) close to graduation, who are looking to get a job soon.
You recently completed a datascience coding bootcamp or online certification, but are unable to land interviews.
Experienced technology professionals looking to pivot their careers into this lucrative domain.
Women, looking for analytics roles after a career break, including spouses on H-4 EAD.
Overall, this book will empower you to land the job of your dreams. Note, this book is deliberately kept short and precise, so you can quickly read through and start applying these principles, instead of sifting through 500 pages of fluff.
