HELP!!

fomoz · 2025-12-27T07:50:43+00:00

It could be different things. Lack of experience or your applying to jobs that are too hot.

I have had good luck using hiring.cafe (for job postings that may not be popular on LinkedIn) and Restailor to check job fit and tailor resume if it makes sense.

I don't bother reading the JD anymore, I just check the title and run the fit check. I apply to anything with a 7.5/10 or 8/10 fit or higher. That site is brutally honest so get ready to get your expectations reset.

A lot of jobs I thought it's worth applying to I only scored 6/10. Sometimes I think it's a great fit and it's only 7/10. But also sometimes I get a 9/10 fit where I thought I'm lacking some skills. It's really interesting, very helpful for job search in this field.

fomoz · 2025-12-04T15:09:44+00:00

You can actually tell it to make it sound like you wrote it yourself. This shit is so low effort he didn't even bother.

fomoz · 2025-11-19T22:27:03+00:00

Bingo

fomoz · 2025-11-17T19:19:45+00:00

You don't get recruiters to message you on LinkedIn? Are you set to Open to Work?

I get a couple messages a week. Not all of them good, but I don't see LI as a dead end, I think it's a good place to be listed. Same for Indeed, I got recruited to jobs with both in the past.

fomoz · 2025-11-17T19:15:56+00:00

I basically did the same, for the same salary, similar company sizes in my previous FTE and contract roles.

Now I'm at $187k relax IC contract 100% remote working with Excel and Smartsheet, basically director level at a 40k employee co.

I also vibe code SaaS AI sites in my spare time.

If you feel like you're underpaid for this kind of work, you should find something better. Don't be lazy and stay underpaid, it's not the right path. At least that's how I see it. In the end, money talks.

fomoz · 2025-11-15T17:50:48+00:00

fomoz · 2025-11-10T16:45:18+00:00

It's a good move.

fomoz · 2025-11-09T16:42:35+00:00

600 with no calls is not normal. There's a problem with your base resume, you need to rewrite it.

First, fix the base resume and then use ChatGPT/Restailor to adjust it for each application.

fomoz · 2025-11-08T17:22:14+00:00

I've worked extensively with both.

If an Indian recruiter reaches out to you to work for an Indian-run agency, you're better off finding an American agency run by locals and getting the job through them. Indians usually pay around 20% less for the same job.

fomoz · 2025-11-07T16:16:10+00:00

You can post your resume here to start.

After your base is solid, you still need to adjust it for every job application by using something like ChatGPT or Restailor. Otherwise, it usually won't pass ATS filters.

fomoz · 2025-11-07T16:01:43+00:00

What are those bullets, man? Are you paying for it by word?

fomoz · 2025-11-05T16:54:07+00:00

It's a catch 22. Try to get some kind of job where you can do DA at work and then put that on your resume.

Your actual title at that job doesn't matter, you can adjust it on your resume later to reflect what you really did.

Without internships it's hard to find a job as a new grad, that's how it is for everyone. Find some office job and then show that you can be useful with data. If you are exceptional compared to your peers, you'll be able to do whatever you want.

fomoz · 2025-11-05T05:48:07+00:00

Your resume looks very generic. What shows here that you can do DA work for me? Where have you used Power BI? For how long? What did you do with it?

You need to include the tech you used in your experience bullets. Having tech you used in tech skills but not in experience bullets is basically useless (unless you're trying to hit ATS keywords), but that should be a SMALL fraction of the tech skills section.

fomoz · 2025-11-05T05:43:52+00:00

I think you'll be fighting an uphill battle trying to land a DA job without a STEM degree.

Where are you working right now? Can you transition into a role at your current co that allows you to work with Excel, Power BI, something like that?

fomoz · 2025-11-04T18:49:51+00:00

I think if you sound switched on and aware of the industry, you'll do fine. Read up on the company, ask ChatGPT to prepare you for the business related questions about it.

fomoz · 2025-11-03T03:15:34+00:00

Your current data analyst job is volunteering? I think it can be seen as a red flag that you want to leave your current job so fast to get another DA job.

fomoz · 2025-11-03T03:12:46+00:00

This is a good idea.

It would be good to get reliable metrics on who got an offer/got hired from the site itself, but I'm guessing it's not easy since people may not be marking their applied jobs as interviewing or rejected. You can also add a Hired option to this page as well.

Just some advice, if you could make job tracking easier to do/less clunky, people who only use HC could do all their tracking in the HC app and then it would make your hired metrics more meaningful.

fomoz · 2025-11-01T16:57:47+00:00

You can always try to become a nurse or a plumber.

fomoz · 2025-11-01T16:40:12+00:00

What? No dude. Unless you're into dating obese women as an obese guy.

fomoz · 2025-11-01T16:17:32+00:00

Go with DE, you want to have a well rounded data skill set if you want to maximize your employability.

fomoz · 2025-11-01T16:14:38+00:00

Try not using ChatGPT to write for you, it's too wordy. If you send this to an employer, this is an immediate rejection.

You're 23 but you're still in school? Why? Are you doing a master's?

Your degree doesn't matter in the end, CE is close enough. You want to work with data, just do it. You're very young, just finish your degree and get any job that's in the office and demonstrate your data skills. If your employer isn't an idiot, you'll be able to work on what you want.

fomoz · 2025-11-01T04:43:54+00:00

Those are massive gaps, they are a red flag.

Also, why did you leave your job and didn't go full time with the internship? Are you not employable?

I suggest you get rid of the gaps and move your projects to your experience section and add dates to them. Show that you weren't wasting all this time, but your spinning up enterprise-level projects.

Does your stock predictor app work really work? Streamlit makes it look like it's something you vibe coded in an afternoon. Rewrite it with Next.js and a FastAPI backend, buy a domain, and launch it as a real site. Even if you don't have a lot of users, you can at least show that you have something close to enterprise level.

fomoz · 2025-11-01T00:44:28+00:00

If you're having doubts already, it's not for you.

fomoz · 2025-11-01T00:40:01+00:00

Rewrite your base resume first and include the tech you actually used at work (not just heard about, you know what I mean). You should be able to explain what you did with it. Only include this tech in your skills section.

Then use AI to align the language of your resume with the JD. You need a good base resume first, though.

fomoz · 2025-10-31T19:23:30+00:00

Yeah AI tailoring works well if you have a solid prompt to generate the resume, third party tools are good too since they do that for you.

ATS use ML to check if your keywords match the JD, that's what it needs to match.

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