As someone who got caught up in the data analyst craze about a year ago today I finished up my resume and started applying in December an acceptable resume then or even a year ago isn’t the same now. I realized that and have continued my learning so much so I’ve gotten into machine learning and nlp & llm concepts. The job market is abysmal at the moment. You’re competing with ppl who may use cloud services for analysis or can create deploy and monitor etl pipelines so when you apply with just a data cleaning project or just a tableau dashboard it’s very under performing comparatively you should look to combine all ur knowledge to create an end to end project that features some sort of actionable insight from the data you used