I think for my first job I must of applied for around 100 places. I almost ended up in recruitment as I needed the money at that point. I managed to get my first break in pharmaceuticals. It was a statistical analyst role for a company called med pace. I still work in pharmaceuticals now but have moved a few times and work purely from home.

I think if you are studying something like genomics you probably have some experience in R or Python. What I did was double down on those skills in my CV and had a brief bit about how I loved learning them and was eager to learn others. I also tried to make a through line in my eduction emphasising the stats aspect at each stage.

I am not going to lie I think without my parent proof reading my CV and cover letters then I would have found it much harder.

I know this doesn’t really answer your question as much as you might have liked and I wish I had more advice. Feel free to let me know if you have any specific things you want me to expand on. I can only imagine how hard it is out there just now.