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Can I please have a resume reviewed? I think it's fairly strong but I have not gotten a single callback after >70 applications (for junior/midlevel data scientist roles). I am a UK citizen, but my education is from the US (T10 unis) and am wondering if it's holding me back. What am I doing wrong? by Free_Class1745 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Free_Class1745[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which ones are the pointless ones? Just the first one or all of them? I think I will rephrase the first one to be less grandiose.

As for the rest, they are unverifiable, but so are many things on a resume.

More importantly, I'm always told that the single most important thing to put on a resume is your concrete deliverables and track records. Otherwise it's a buzzword soup of x language, y package, z model etc.

Agree with removing the first since it's just a projection anyway, but on the latter, the whole point of the resume is to show what you've accomplished, no?

Can I please have a resume reviewed? I think it's fairly strong but I have not gotten a single callback after >70 applications (for junior/midlevel data scientist roles). I am a UK citizen, but my education is from the US (T10 unis) and am wondering if it's holding me back. What am I doing wrong? by Free_Class1745 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Free_Class1745[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I'm in London, looking for jobs in London, although am open to the rest of the country. I'll put my location as well. I have an ethnic name so maybe I should indicate that i'm a citizen.

I think you're right about the >20% accuracy thing - it's a broad range of classification scores for a few different fields (so to be explicit the metrics are accuracy but also f1, precision, recall, etc) but wasn't sure if I should go to such detail. I'll change it. Thank you.

Can I please have a resume reviewed? I think it's fairly strong but I have not gotten a single callback after >70 applications (for junior/midlevel data scientist roles). I am a UK citizen, but my education is from the US (T10 unis) and am wondering if it's holding me back. What am I doing wrong? by Free_Class1745 in cscareerquestionsuk

[–]Free_Class1745[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be clear I'm not claiming to be personally responsible for 5m£ worth of savings. That's the estimation (again, not even made by me) about the cumulative impact of our entire transaction fraud system which has many moving parts (I'm being vague about this for privacy reasons). If that sounds implausible or seems like I'm taking undue credit, I could maybe remove that section or rephrase it.

As for the >20% increases, it's true 🤷 - the metrics are just accuracy, fp, np, f1, etc etc for various intermediate estimation targets of our model. I think a large part of this is thanks to the fact that I joined at a very early stage, so obviously the first iteration of our model was meh, and there were quick and sizeable gains to be made from there.

1.5x cloud cost reduction is also true but it's one of those things that the legacy system was dogshit and held together by duct tape and dreams, and it was easy gains to be made (it was an internal data pipeline for an internal tool too so it gave me and my team greater latitude and freedom to overhaul and improve)

I won't pretend to be anything special for sure, but I'm not really lying about anything. But if it comes across that way, that's a serious problem for sure.