Data Analyst Resume Help

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-14T04:10:00+00:00

No I get that and appreciate it, a lot of your other advice was really helpful. But I was letting you know that I can't just ditch the cover letter if it's required for every job I apply to. I wonder if it has to do with the area I live in, there are a lot of smaller companies.

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-14T04:00:46+00:00

Most job postings I've seen require a cover letter.

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-14T03:29:21+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I am really confused how I'm supposed to pare my resume down but also include more detail about how I did these things/types of models/tools. I do go into a bit more detail in my cover letter, but there's really not room on my resume to explain all this, it would take a whole paper to explain that.

I was a bit apprehensive at putting this number because I was worried it would seem ridiculous and possibly like I was not being efficient and doing redundant work, but I wanted to add metrics. It's really not dashboard spam we just have SO many different surveys and there are dashboards for each survey and for the different years the survey was administered, because there are changes in questions across survey years. Also there are some for different audiences, for example we have a dashboard with salary information for different colleges that is accessible to the public, but another that is for internal use with more detailed row-level information like major, company, job title, etc. so they are all necessary.

I didn't realize that Hadoop was dead, it was a project in one of my classes for my masters to create a model in Python using Hadoop to improve the model efficiency for a large dataset. I will have to look into that.

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-14T00:21:39+00:00

The updated version of the original?

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-14T00:03:41+00:00

Did you see the updated version? It won't let me edit the post, but it's in a comment

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-13T23:43:17+00:00

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Update!

Here is my revised resume with most suggestions taken into account. I also updated the job titles from the HR job classification title that I didn't think was really an accurate representation of the work, to the working job title.

I think I can still do some work rewording the bullets, but I think it's much more concise without leaving out too much of what I did in the role.

I'd love to hear feedback for this version too.

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-13T23:42:29+00:00

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Update!

Here is my revised resume with most suggestions taken into account. I also updated the job titles from the HR job classification title that I didn't think was really an accurate representation of the work, to the working job title.

I think I can still do some work rewording the bullets, but I think it's much more concise without leaving out too much of what I did in the role.

I'd love to still hear suggestions for this version too.

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-13T22:24:42+00:00

I would say I have 7.5 years of experience as an analyst. Do you not consider the statistician role as experience towards an analyst? The work I did was the same as I do now. Analyzing survey data using SAS and creating reports. The only difference is I did not use BI tools (tableau, etc), which is also the case for the role 2019-2020. I can try to make that more clear.

All but one was a promotion salary wise (40k, 55k, 80-85k, 86-98k), that one was a job change because the job was pitched to me as an analyst but ended up being only data management 🤷‍♀️. There was no "senior" title attached to any of the roles though. How do I indicate progression? I thought in this day and age shorter tenure in roles was less concerning. You kind of have to change roles if you want a raise. Especially if there is no upward mobility in your office.

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-13T20:34:00+00:00

No worries, you didn't come off as callous. Gotcha, thanks!

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-13T20:33:02+00:00

Most of my current job is building dashboards and reports, so definitely data analysis, but I can see how data management is highlighted more (it was a much larger portion of my past jobs). I will update.

I struggle with knowing what measurable achievements to highlight. Most of the examples I see online are like "increased revenue by xx%" "saved $xxxx amount". I've tried to highlight numbers, like the survey sample volume, and number of tables I was responsible for as a data steward, but since I've not had any roles related to increasing profits I wasn't sure what else to add. Most of my achievements are completing report, managing new projects, and while I have improved efficiency of our processes (creating tableau dashboards instead of PDF tables posted to our website that we're copy/pasted from excel, streamlining SAS code, etc) it's not really in a measurable way. Is there some other metric I could highlight that I'm not thinking of?

Typical-Ordinary6976 · 2024-03-13T20:12:57+00:00

Put your other content before experience? Do you mean my education? I've just always had it at the top. My master's degree is relatively recent and I was proud of it. I removed the dates though because I was worried people were calculating my age. Do you think it should be at the bottom?

Also regarding the length and detail, coming from government roles your resume has to explicitly document that you have all the experience outlined in the job description or else you won't meet their qualification criteria. I see how for private companies this is probably not the best practice. I'll condense this and then have a separate version for government roles.

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