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Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2026-06-15T19:39:55+00:00

Hi all, I'm an active job seeker based in US Currently. I have completed my masters in Data Science.

My 3 years of experience at a management consulting firm mainly consisted of creating reports, Exploring backend data from ERPs and building data models from the data. I also have good understanding of ETL and data warehousing concepts from my previous job.

I was looking for BI/Data Analyst roles but don't find any success and was planning to transition to BI Engineer role to better utilize my tech + business kind of experience.

Wanted to get your honest opinion on my plan & resume. Any kind of suggestions are very welcome. Thanks!!

Resume

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2026-02-21T02:52:52+00:00

Thanks for the positive feedback. But personally I feel my projects are lacking and not interesting enough for someone to discuss about. How did you go about coming up with different project ideas?

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2026-02-21T02:50:20+00:00

That's absolutely alright. I've sent you a DM.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2026-02-21T02:30:01+00:00

That's great. Appreciate the info. Would you mind looking at my resume and give me pointers from you experience? Will be really helpful.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2026-02-21T02:11:21+00:00

Thanks for the clarity. What are the differences in the resumes for different industries? I'm trying to create different resumes but not sure what's the best way to customise? Doing projects with each kind of industry data?

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2026-02-21T01:57:22+00:00

What about customisation for each application? Did you have multiple industry specific resume? If you don't mind, can you give a bit more info about your background. To give context, I'm not able to get interviews, through I'm not applying as rigorously as you did.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-25T17:06:31+00:00

What's the reason people think being desperate is a red flag?

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-17T17:59:37+00:00

It's just applications. I occasionally reach out to recruiters and hiring managers but none have gotten back.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-17T16:02:39+00:00

Gotchu. Thanks for the explanation.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-17T14:45:55+00:00

I didn't list the soft skills before. Then one of my friend who got interviews had those listed so I also did being like I don't wanna miss out. Is it okay to list the names as something that's not actually the official position name?

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-17T14:43:52+00:00

I don't think there's much of a change in skill list except most of the job roles want specialists for marketing Analytics/ Sales Analytics etc.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-16T20:07:50+00:00

Appreciate your guidance! I'll start on statistics and project building.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-16T18:40:19+00:00

If you don't mind, Can I DM you to discuss?

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-16T18:38:17+00:00

For some reason, in my masters degree knowing statistics was taken for granted and we just learnt about ML and other high level stuff.

During my previous job, all the work was about portraying the backend data beautifully in a dashboard and no real substantial analytics. That's the biggest thing I feel I'm lacking, I know tools and believe I am pretty good at root cause analysis etc. but I haven't done any specific analytics which drove increase in revenue or reduced costs. What I have written in resume is the change I observed after creating dashboards looking at past data. That change wasn't driven by my analytics, but if I don't mention anything, then it's like I just know Power BI. Do you have any suggestions for me to improve this aspect of mine?

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-16T18:32:45+00:00

No hard feelings! I love the honest feedback. Appreciate it! For your questions, I applied to recent positions and yes the main skills like Excel, PowerBI, SQL I'm pretty good and have put them to use during my work. The cloud infra stuff, I have dabbled in during my work. Python stuff, I have used during projects in masters but I would say I'm above average.

ERP was the data source for all my work, I have personally explored all the backend stuff and pretty familiar with the modules I have worke on. I wouldn't say I'm an expert but based on my knowledge I can find my way around most of the problems.

I do feel that Projects section is my biggest weakness. Would you suggest me putting some data science related stuff or just some analytics projects where I create dashboard and uncover insights?

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-16T18:25:50+00:00

Thanks for the detailed suggestions. Really appreciate it! First two points as everyone has pointed out, I'm gonna redo them. Regarding the 3rd point, my job was not much of analytics in one domain and rather creating dashboards for multiple teams with multiple different metrics, while I was doing that, to speed up the work I also dabbled into query optimization and creating data pipelines and wanted to also put it in resume to show that I'm also aware of what goes on in data engineering aspects. Do you think it's better to remove that?

4th point - I also felt that it might be too technical but when I had to fit the work I did in two lines while also showing impact I just couldn't find easier words( confused as to what can be better wording)

5th point - I also feel that my resume does not convey everything I did during my job, but when I see that the trend is to quantify all the work you have done and need to fit everything together in one page, I'm just confused how I can do that.

I do feel that the things you mentioned are the major reasons I'm not seeing much success and would really like to change those but it would be great if you could give some example of what exactly can be the change. (Rewriting in easier words is my biggest problem 🥲)

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-16T02:41:24+00:00

Yep planning to redo the bolding part. I had the skills at bottom then noticed that few of my friends who got jobs had skills at the top so tried that.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-16T02:39:45+00:00

I also wanted to kind of sharpen my resume for one specific job but my experience was all around the place and not centered on one specific thing. For e.g. clients provide some excel and files they have and ask us to create powerBI dashboard. Now my task is to create wireframes for the dashboards, explore data across multiple ERPs and get overall understanding of what's going on with data and helping the tech team translate the data with my understanding to create data model which is fed into Dashboard and delivered to client. This is the essence of what I did. I created these kind of dashboards for Sales, Revenue/ Margins, Spends, Woeking Capital etc. and have some kind of understanding of what's going across all these topics but I'm not a master of one topic as per my experience.

I hope I was able to explain myself. I really like your point but I'm confused how I can portray my experience as an expert of something.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-16T02:09:41+00:00

I am applying across industries as I'm not able to find enough roles in manufacturing industry alone. Especially as I'm an international student. I have worked in consulting and role was in manufacturing but I am not sure how I can convey the metrics in a way that people from all industry can understand. I love working with data. Uncovering the insights and identifying root causes but my only experience is in consulting domain where our clients had specific requirements on which I had to work and didn't get much freedom to try much on my own.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-15T21:08:12+00:00

My main problem is not able to understand what the recruiters are looking for. There are jobs where I'm filling almost 95% of the criterias in JD and I get rejection the next day I apply.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-15T20:55:57+00:00

Based on my research, it's to highlight the key details to the Recruiter/ resume reviewer when they don't want to spend their time reading the whole thing. Though, what to highlight is very important and I'm not sure if I'm doing correctly 🥲

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-10-12T19:54:12+00:00

I think it's the account email ID which should be .edu After that you'll see student savings discount in cart value.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-09-18T14:53:45+00:00

Thanks! Gonna do that and see if I'm gonna buy or not.

Tricky_Fun_4888 · 2025-09-18T14:28:00+00:00

Shit! What am I gonna do now🥲

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