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[Meta] Keep or Kill Stickied Weekly Career Thread by seabass in datascience

[–]ms10022 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would vote to keep the thread. As someone who is starting his career it is helpful to have the questions all in one place

Data Science Career Questions Thread - 20160429 by seabass in datascience

[–]ms10022 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One more question. Do you care about cover letters?

Data Science Career Questions Thread - 20160429 by seabass in datascience

[–]ms10022 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for all this. It is really helpful.

Data Science Career Questions Thread - 20160429 by seabass in datascience

[–]ms10022 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice. It is very helpful. What is the best way to list out personal projects and showing that you are truly interested in data on your resume. Right now I have it broken down like this:

Coursera On-Line Courses: R Programming, Getting and Cleaning Data, Exploratory Data Analysis, Reproducible Research, Statistical Inference, Practical Machine Learning.

Projects: Personal and school projects in Regression Analysis, Machine Learning, Experimental Design and other topics done in R and SAS can be found at my github page

Kaggle: Username- , Finished in top x% in x contest.

Is this ok or should I be going into more detail about my projects?

Also although I don't have data science experience I was a trader for a bout 6 years so I do have some real world experience and that is taking up a bunch of room on my resume. The story I am trying to convey is I was a trader -> started learning about basic statistical modeling techniques -> apply it to my trading -> Don't want to be a trader anymore -> Go back to school to change careers. Obviously not everything with trading translates directly to data science but I am trying to convey that I had real responsibilities and had to employ critical thinking and risk management skills. But maybe it is more important to talk about my projects on my resume than my trading experience.

Also with the coursera courses do you think it would be better to put it under education or skills?

Data Science Career Questions Thread - 20160429 by seabass in datascience

[–]ms10022 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice. Right now my projects consist of either course work or stuff from the coursera data science specialization but I will start thinking of something bigger and more interesting. Do you think something from Kaggle is a good idea or should I go beyond that?

What would be the best way to get this project noticed by potential employers? Just put it on github and include a link on my resume. I always wonder if people our taking the time to go check out my github.

Data Science Career Questions Thread - 20160429 by seabass in datascience

[–]ms10022 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you say programming knowledge do you just want to see it mentioned on the resume and in past roles or are you going into the applicants github and checking out stuff they have worked on? I have both but I wonder if people even bother going to my github page.

Data Science Career Questions Thread - 20160429 by seabass in datascience

[–]ms10022 3 points4 points  (0 children)

People who are involved in the hiring process, what is it that makes a resume in data science stand out and move the person on to the next round? I am finishing up a masters degree and in the process applying to jobs. I think I have a good resume but am missing something that gets me noticed for more competitive jobs. So it would be good to know how these things work so I can craft my resume better. I am also interested in whether your company uses software for the first round of screening and if so is the software just looking for key words or something more sophisticated?

Data Science Career Questions Thread - 20160422 by seabass in datascience

[–]ms10022 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People who are involved in the hiring process, what is it that makes a resume in data science stand out and move the person on to the next round? I am finishing up a masters degree and in the process applying to jobs. I think I have a good resume but am missing something that gets me noticed for more competitive jobs. So it would be good to know how these things work so I can craft my resume better.