7 Data Analytics Job Search Mistakes to Avoid

Name: 7 Data Analytics Job Search Mistakes to Avoid | Webinar
Uploaded: 2026-09-23T12:55:18+00:00
Duration: 1 h 11 min 37 s
Channel: Alex The Analyst

00:00:05hi everybody welcome to another career foundry event this evening i know that a lot of people

00:00:09are joining so those that are joining in big marker drop your name where you're joining from

00:00:15and maybe because this is a little bit of talk about mistakes it's a little bit like a confessional

00:00:20maybe what mistakes you've done in your career so far we want this to be as honest and engaging as

00:00:26possible so do drop any comments that you have in the public chat and any questions that you may have

00:00:30also in the q a tab because at the end we're going to be having a live q a where

00:00:35you can ask alex

00:00:36anything let me just introduce myself and career foundry briefly before we kick off i'm william

00:00:42events and communications lead here at career foundry i see one person can't hear anything so

00:00:47if there are more people that can't hear anything please do say something um i hope you can hear me

00:00:53um but yes i'm william events communications lead here at uh no audio hello no audio alex can you

00:01:01hear me i can hear you i don't know if they can hear you good saying audio okay it's a

00:01:06mixed it's a

00:01:06mixed crowd okay some people can some people can hear me some people can hear me one the one thing

00:01:12i would say is that anyone tuning in on big market it does work best on google chrome so do

00:01:16check that

00:01:17out and keep me posted if you can't hear um as i was saying i'm william events and communications

00:01:22lead here at career foundry and career foundry is the online school for your career change into tech

00:01:26and we guide you from complete beginner to a job ready professional in data analytics and

00:01:31help you land your first job in the field so we're not any old school um our programs are so

00:01:36flexible

00:01:37that you don't need to quit your day job and we have a dual mentorship model so every student gets

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00:01:41mentor and a tutor and we also have a job guarantee so if you don't land a job within 180

00:01:47days

00:01:47after graduation um if you're making a lot of mistakes um on the way you will get a full refund

00:01:54so that's our job guarantee any questions about career foundry do book a call uh in the description

00:02:00below on on youtube or um with one of our group advisors um on big marker but i would just

00:02:07say one

00:02:08thing we are very very happy to welcome alex back to the career foundry channel once again and for

00:02:13anybody in the career foundry audience do check out alex's youtube channel alex the analyst there

00:02:19is some fantastic content over there all about data analytics also specific tools and uh general

00:02:25advice so do check out alex's youtube channel uh and you know i'm going to disappear now alex i think

00:02:31you should take the floor for the confessional seven mistakes to avoid in your data analytics job

00:02:35search with alex awesome awesome thank you and thank you everybody in the chat i see you guys

00:02:40uh and i really appreciate the warm welcome and there's so many people from all over i love

00:02:45seeing where people are from we have like slovakia and egypt and just all over it's awesome so hey

00:02:52everybody uh my name is alex freeberg uh if you don't know me i'll go to this next slide real

00:02:57quick

00:02:57this is me that is my picture um i am the ceo of analyst builder where you can prepare for

00:03:03technical

00:03:03interviews i also have a alex analytics consulting company where i work with tech companies and tech

00:03:09startups on a various uh array of things and i specialize in sql python cloud applications and

00:03:16some other stuff as well but that's not interesting and of course i'm most well known for uh you my

00:03:21youtube channel alex analyst um and of course i have you know linkedin and twitter and all that good

00:03:27stuff so you know check me out if you're interested there's people from nigeria uk mexico

00:03:32south africa i'm just seeing more people come in london argentina this is awesome i love all the

00:03:37people from around the world i i have um i have a lot traveled to a lot of these places

00:03:42but i have a

00:03:43lot of places on my bucket list from a lot of people who like are on the channel who i

00:03:47uh i get

00:03:49to talk to and they're like you gotta come here so i'll come to your place one of these days

00:03:53now i'm

00:03:54gonna get started in just a second one thing i want to say though is william and i were talking

00:03:58beforehand he's like i like this topic of mistakes um because like he said it's kind of like

00:04:03a confessional and for me it's it's kind of like therapeutic because i get to reminisce about some

00:04:09of my early days of trying to get a become a data analyst and they were very very very challenging

00:04:15and

00:04:15i made all the mistakes you're about to see are they come from personal experience it's alex made

00:04:21all these mistakes at one point in his career and i don't want you to make those mistakes as well

00:04:27that's really all it is and so a lot of these i have a lot of personal stories with and

00:04:32so i'll try to

00:04:33share those as we go along but uh these are all really really really relevant things that you need

00:04:39to take into consideration when you are applying for jobs when you're trying to land a job even if

00:04:44you already have experience even if you have a year's experience two years three years these things

00:04:48are still really relevant it's not just for people who are just starting out although some of these

00:04:54might be more geared towards them but of course we'll talk about that as we go along my wife is

00:05:00texting me i'm gonna turn this off real quick uh i told her i was going into i think she's

00:05:04just

00:05:04saying good luck love you don't get mad at me um so we're gonna go on i think i have

00:05:09seven of these

00:05:09uh and the first one and i think and this is no there's no order to these it's not this

00:05:16is the

00:05:17most important one but this is the first one that when i was writing this out i was thinking i

00:05:20was like

00:05:20one of the bigger things that i messed up when i first started was i tried to do it all

00:05:26by myself i had no network i didn't know how to build a network um i didn't really understand

00:05:32what it meant when people said networking i was like is that like a networking event where you'd

00:05:37go in person and there's like you know a not a stadium but like this area where you'd go and

00:05:42talk to people like i just didn't understand it i don't come from that that that world where

00:05:47networking is like a real thing um and so the first thing i will say is that networking helps you

00:05:54discover job opportunities that are not publicly advertised what i mean by that is i've had a lot

00:05:59of people even when i was about like a year or two in where i started actually networking reaching out

00:06:04to people joining groups um communities online and talking with people and engaging where they were

00:06:10like hey you know we've talked a lot and we have a position open um at our company and they

00:06:15would you

00:06:16know message it to this small group of like 15 20 people that i was with and whoever was

00:06:21interested in could like send in their resume and i got a few interviews that way um and it just

00:06:26networking and not just in those little groups but one-to-one is a really good way for example i

00:06:32help i'm a part of that network right so like if you message me on linkedin um and we start

00:06:38talking

00:06:38and i i probably talked to probably tens of thousands of people at this point um but there are

00:06:43some people who you know they'll message me every so often and they'll maintain that relationship

00:06:47and when something comes along i passed it along to people and they really appreciate that and that

00:06:53is that part of that networking and i'm just one person but you can do that with 10 people 20

00:06:57people

00:06:58that you know you really want to or you're really interested in or that's a uh they're at a company

00:07:03that you really like and start trying to build that relationship so if something does come along then

00:07:08you're one of those people that they think of um this doesn't always have to be online either

00:07:12right if you're in a city like i used to live in charlotte north carolina i used to live in

00:07:17dallas

00:07:18texas both big metropolitan areas um in dallas i was able to do that where i networked with people

00:07:24in person um only after i knew what networking was where i actually went to some meetups and and talked

00:07:30to people but you can do that if you're in a place where there are these types of meetups and

00:07:35you

00:07:35can go and meet people and you can uh you know go in person to places and talk to them

00:07:40this is the kind

00:07:41of networking uh that really leads to those long-term relationships it may not pay off in the first

00:07:47three months of you doing it but maybe after six months or a year you know you're building relationships

00:07:52that are going to last a long time um the next point that i says allows you to showcase your

00:07:57skills

00:07:58and receive validation from industry professionals so oftentimes when you are you know at the very

00:08:04beginning especially is you don't really know what your skill level is right you're applying but

00:08:08you're like am i a beginner am i intermediate should i be applying for entry-level roles you

00:08:13don't really know and so networking allows you to kind of share here's who i am um you know what

00:08:19do

00:08:19you do get to know them start building that relationship and they can be candid with you and

00:08:23say hey look you know here's where you're at with this skill and if you want to be in this

00:08:27industry or

00:08:28this type of company here's what you where you need to get and that they can kind of just mentor

00:08:33you

00:08:33even a little bit just say hey you know i would suggest you learn this that's again networking

00:08:38because then you can go and learn that skill come back to them say hey i really appreciate that

00:08:41they're like hey we're looking for someone who knows that skill will bring you on and that has

00:08:45happened a lot to to a lot of people um and then the last one and that's exactly what i

00:08:51was just

00:08:51talking about which is building a professional network lead to mentorship career advice future

00:08:55job prospects these are all things that happen within a network and i had zero of these things

00:09:00when i first started out um if i was starting from ground zero today and i and i knew nobody

00:09:06nobody

00:09:06knew me i would probably start with reaching out to people online people who i really liked uh either

00:09:13on linkedin or twitter just try to start a conversation with them and say hey i'm just

00:09:18beginning i really like what you're doing and the content you put out i'd love to just talk a little

00:09:22bit and i i get messages like that i probably got 10 this morning uh and i messaged all 10

00:09:28of them

00:09:28back this morning as part of my like routine i like doing that and so there's other people like

00:09:32me who like replying to people and helping people and so just find that person let's go into the next

00:09:39one and uh this one i'm the king of uh and i still all right this is one of those

00:09:47do as i do not as i or

00:09:49do as i say not as i do because i still kind of have generic ish resumes um because again

00:09:56i'm in a

00:09:56different place now in my career where i can be a little bit more generic people will look me up

00:10:01and

00:10:01they know who i am so it's a little different right so i don't customize my resume for every job

00:10:06i do wish though years ago that i had really i really do wish i had done this i think

00:10:12i would

00:10:12have gotten a lot more interviews and it just would have been a lot a lot helpful in the job

00:10:18process and i just didn't do it um so exactly this uh what am i trying to say what this

00:10:25is essentially

00:10:26is it's a generic resume where you're not really highlighting specific skills for the position that

00:10:33you're applying to so for example um i just had one resume that i would blast into any job that

00:10:39was

00:10:40related marketing analyst financial analyst business analyst data analyst uh i was even applying

00:10:46for data science positions at one point or data engineering when i was like thinking about doing

00:10:50that it was just all the same resume um i that's it doesn't make much sense right because every

00:10:57position is a little bit different if i was applying for a marketing position i would want to showcase

00:11:02how my skills are relevant to a marketing analyst position and this is just high level right so like

00:11:08just position based so marketing versus a data analyst versus a business analyst you want to cater

00:11:14towards what are these things actually doing in their jobs and then cater your you know skills and

00:11:20your experience to that job now that's really high level even more even more in depth of that is if

00:11:28you're applying for a very specific company for example if you're applying to amazon or you're

00:11:32applying to microsoft or applying to you know joe's healthcare analytics company or the alex analytics

00:11:38consulting company whatever you're applying to if you look into that company even a little bit

00:11:43uh look at the job description you can then cater your resume to that job description now that takes

00:11:49a little bit more time it does it's going to take more time it's a bigger investment but you are

00:11:54going

00:11:55to fit that job description better every single time so me tossing out my resume maybe i was a good

00:12:02fit

00:12:02for 75 of them or actually that's ridiculous maybe i'm a good fit for 30 of them right but if

00:12:09you

00:12:09customize them it'll take longer but now you're a fit for 50 or 60 so you're increasing your chances

00:12:15of getting an interview uh and that's all your resume is for all your well 95 of what your resume

00:12:22is for is to get into an in-person interview right to get a call uh to talk to a

00:12:27hiring manager that's

00:12:28what your resume is for so you really i really do recommend especially if there's a certain domain

00:12:35for me i was in healthcare analytics because so my resume was healthcare focused um i had healthcare

00:12:41on my job description i had healthcare experience and so when i was applying to other companies like

00:12:47uh bank companies they're like this guy's a healthcare data analyst like why is he applying

00:12:52to this i guarantee you they were thinking about that um if i had changed it to make it more

00:12:58relevant

00:12:58to financial analytics or or banking then it probably would have done a lot better and there

00:13:05was a time i tried to switch i wanted to work at like uh a big uh bank like usaa

00:13:10um and another place

00:13:13and you know i just it wasn't uh it wasn't working now actually one small story i forgot to tell

00:13:19on this

00:13:20previous one i used to work with someone uh at my healthcare company and this it reminded me because um

00:13:25i was talking about the banking he we worked together for like uh two years sat next to him

00:13:32for two years great guy he went and worked at uh i think it was usaa yeah uh and so

00:13:38he worked there

00:13:38and after about a year he messaged me saying hey alex we have this uh bi developer position open i

00:13:45think

00:13:45you'd be a perfect fit you'd be on my team and he was older than me so that you know

00:13:49i i was i would

00:13:50love to do that um and it just wasn't where i was at in my career at the time but

00:13:54he was thinking

00:13:55about me because he really liked me as a person and that was that networking piece where i got to

00:14:00know him and when a spot opened up he was like that's who i want to work with so just

00:14:04a small bit

00:14:05of networking um but i've had that happen now many times over my career where previous people i've

00:14:10worked with or talked with have reached out saying hey alex we'd love to have you you know

00:14:14join as this position as a data analyst or a data scientist or data engineer and so just that

00:14:20networking especially as uh you know you get further in your career it really pays off then

00:14:25the generic res or the resumes become less important it becomes more important about networking

00:14:31let's go to the next one

00:14:34all right no online presence now this one is i would say slightly controversial um you don't need an online

00:14:42presence and you really i had zero online presence like absolutely none i think i had a linkedin

00:14:47uh but i don't think i had ever posted on it um and yeah that's i just i had nothing

00:14:53and so you

00:14:54don't need this but this is something i do recommend um because even smaller i don't even want to call

00:15:02them creators i would consult consider myself a content creator right that's a part of my job now

00:15:07i do a lot of consulting but i'm also i do youtube so i have that a bigger brand but

00:15:12i even see a lot of

00:15:14people who just have 500 600 700 connections who are really able to post just interesting things that

00:15:21people really like and because of that they get people reaching out to them and so uh not only that

00:15:27there's some other things i want to mention as well but the first thing is that when you apply to

00:15:33a job

00:15:33let's say you your resume gets through you didn't have a generic resume like me uh you made a really

00:15:38good resume it was carried to a job the hiring manager is like okay we got it down to these

00:15:43five

00:15:43people let me look them up online i can almost guarantee you that you're going to do that and

00:15:49what ends up happening is is the people who have a good online presence they just create a better

00:15:54first impression or they may even say this person you know they have a bad online presence we don't

00:16:01want them if you have nothing uh it's kind of neutral right you don't have one that's okay

00:16:05uh we'll still bring in for an interview but a good online presence can really help you get that

00:16:11initial interview or can help you have a good impression when you go in for those interviews

00:16:16or even have something to talk about if you have like a crazy cool post that you posted about

00:16:20um about financial analytics and some data that you collected and you can talk about that and they

00:16:25may even bring it up uh not on not out of the realm of possibilities the next thing is is

00:16:32a strong

00:16:32online presence can establish your professional brand and reputation now this takes a long time

00:16:37um this is not something that happens overnight but if you're interested if that's something that

00:16:42you're interested in just posting about like your experience in getting a job or experience in your

00:16:48work or wherever you're at just posting about these things things that are you know could be helpful

00:16:53to others or others could really resonate with then i really i think you should do it i think

00:16:58uh a lot of people don't do it because they're really scared of like how what people are going

00:17:04to think of them or the negative feedback or their co-worker you know uh sarah down the hall she's

00:17:09going

00:17:09to read your post and and you know rat you out or something but there's so much content that you

00:17:13can

00:17:13uh talk about just about work and about work-life balance and and all sorts of things and i've

00:17:20personally find it you know really really therapeutic and fun um so you don't have to this is not a

00:17:26have

00:17:26to do this is more of a if you're if you're interested in doing this i do highly recommend

00:17:32it it has been um it's not just speaking personally this has been one that so many people i've talked

00:17:39to they're like yeah this helped me land a job this helped me you know in my first interview and

00:17:44it

00:17:44really does help um and then the last one says social media and professional networking sites can help

00:17:49you connect with potential employers and peers now um say you have no linkedin account you don't you

00:17:56didn't even make one it's not even blank it doesn't even have your name well you're gonna have

00:18:00to go and apply to places uh just like everybody else so you're gonna have to go on to glass

00:18:05door

00:18:06you're gonna have to go into zip recruiter um you're gonna have to go into monster uh.com or

00:18:13monsters.com or whatever that one is um places like linkedin uh are one of the most powerful places to

00:18:19get a job because they do a lot of the work for you and you can set up your profile

00:18:24um and say

00:18:25you're open to work and and specify the kinds of jobs you're open to to where recruiters and

00:18:30people can reach out to you i have gotten many jobs this way this is actually how i got my

00:18:35very first

00:18:36uh my very first date analyst job and my second date analyst job um i got both of them reached

00:18:43out

00:18:43to me on linkedin i just got lucky right um and that's part of it it's just putting yourself out

00:18:49there in the best way to give you the best chance of landing an interview and so uh this is

00:18:55one that

00:18:56yeah i really think is a good one if you're interested i'm not pushing it i really am not

00:19:01all right this next one this was uh uh this is a really interesting one for me because

00:19:07i pseudo did this without knowing what it was before it was cool before i uh started you know making

00:19:15my videos on it and now it's you know kind of mainstream i'm patting myself i'm just kidding

00:19:20that wasn't me um but you know a lot of people have been recommending this for a long time and

00:19:24i didn't know what this was um and so what i did was i had my resume and my generic

00:19:30resume

00:19:31and alongside it on a whole separate sheet of paper i put sql scripts that i had written that's

00:19:37all i knew uh at that time all i knew was sql and so i had sql doing a little

00:19:43bit of data

00:19:43cleaning a little exploratory data analysis some you know simple not crazy tough stuff

00:19:49but it was on there i had like 10 7 or 8 uh sql code on there and i would

00:19:55send that with my resume

00:19:56um and my logic behind it is actually really sound my logic behind it was well i have sql on

00:20:04my resume

00:20:04but how do they know that i'm actually good at sql right they have sql on their job description

00:20:09i know they want someone who's good at sql i know i feel like i know sql pretty well let

00:20:14me put it

00:20:15on a separate sheet on my resume and send it in well that ended up being something that they really

00:20:22liked and we actually talked about in the interview and they were like yep these are the types of

00:20:25things that we want to see what i didn't know is that was actually called a portfolio um or a

00:20:31project

00:20:31depending on how you want to look at it and i just i didn't think about it and looking back

00:20:38i really wish i had actually created a real portfolio and real projects and probably would

00:20:42have done even better but i at least had something right i had something to showcase that i actually

00:20:47knew the skill and that's what these are for um so the first thing says it shows potential

00:20:52employers tangible skills that you have and helps you verify that skill so for example i go and i see

00:20:59uh john doe's resume and i'm like this is a good resume it looks solid has some of the skills

00:21:04that

00:21:04we're looking for but how do i know he's really good at this skill it's really hard to tell um

00:21:10sometimes you can tell them the job description if they talk about a little bit um but if i could

00:21:15see it it'd be even better and then oh in the top right he has a link and so i

00:21:19go and i click on the

00:21:20link that's his portfolio it's a portfolio website excuse me now on this portfolio website he has

00:21:28multiple projects this project sql data cleaning or uh you know sql data uh exploration and i click

00:21:35on it i see the code that he's written and he has comments and it looks really good and i'm

00:21:39like oh

00:21:39this is you know he knows his stuff he's at least at like an intermediate level that's what we're

00:21:44looking for that'll give me more confidence to bring him in for an interview and i was a hiring

00:21:49manager for a year but then even before that i was on a hiring team for two years so i've

00:21:55been on the

00:21:55hiring process for for many years and honestly i i just it's not a surefire thing to get you an

00:22:02interview but it definitely sets you apart and i can kind of then when you come in for that

00:22:07interview i usually will reference i said hey we took a look at your portfolio we saw these projects

00:22:12you know talk about that a little bit it gives the candidate or you an opportunity to then talk

00:22:17about these projects how you built them where you got the data you know what kind of insights did you

00:22:22find what you know things within that tool did you use and so i can't recommend it enough i genuinely

00:22:29uh looking back have kicked myself many times i'm like i how did i not know to do this like

00:22:35six years ago when i was or seven years ago when i was you know in those early years of

00:22:40being a data

00:22:40analyst um i only started doing that maybe two or three years after i became a data analyst it took

00:22:47me

00:22:47too long yeah do this now do this is not one that um you don't have to do it but

00:22:54again this i this one

00:22:55i really strongly recommend i strongly strongly recommend um the next reason for a portfolio

00:23:01project was my second bullet point says it gives you somebody to point towards during interviews to

00:23:06demonstrate your skills i in the first year of applying for a data analyst position i had a lot of

00:23:14interviews and i'd get in my interview they'd say it says you know sequel says you know excel and i

00:23:20think on there i had like a little python or something and they're like explain talk to us

00:23:25about how you know how you use these skills i would kind of go in a roundabout way well you

00:23:31know i know

00:23:32how to use joins and i know how to use group by for aggregate functions and and let me tell

00:23:38you

00:23:38something that doesn't sound good in an interview i've heard a lot of people say that in interviews just

00:23:42it doesn't sound good you're just saying what sql does it's talking you want to talk about how you

00:23:48use sql to you know actually do something how you use it to clean data how you use it to

00:23:55create

00:23:56automated processes if you know how to do that or just how to aggregate data and what you can find

00:24:01from that right it's about solving business problems use tools to solve problems and so projects

00:24:07are you're completed here's where i took the data here's what i did with it and here's what i got

00:24:13from it and so you can take it and you can talk about it in an interview and say hey

00:24:18i built this

00:24:19i took this data i i did these things in sql and here's what i got out of it and

00:24:24here's what i was able

00:24:25to do with the data and that speaks so much better to you as an employee because you've really worked

00:24:31hard on uh you know working on the skill building something and you can point to that in an interview

00:24:37sounds so much better all right number five um this is a mistake that i made one time i it

00:24:48only took

00:24:48me one time to realize this and i'll i'll tell you the story before i even get into it um

00:24:53i was applying

00:24:55for my first data analyst position i just was looking for any job um and this is this is something

00:25:05that doesn't happen all the time but what ended up happening was is that they reached out for a data

00:25:10science position i didn't fully know what that was but the pay was like 80 grand and at the time

00:25:16i was

00:25:16making like 36 000 so and i was living in dallas so that's like really low for dallas um and

00:25:24i was

00:25:25like i would take anything i'll take any position anything i just want to experience so i went in

00:25:32for the interview and again i don't know why they were interviewing me i just got lucky or whatever

00:25:37well i thought i was getting lucky so i got in there and i started asking questions about work-life

00:25:44balance and about being in person versus uh you know how often do i need to be in person because

00:25:50again

00:25:50i didn't i would have done it either way i was just curious um asking about culture and all these

00:25:54things and i didn't really even fully understand what the business did but i started asking more

00:26:00questions like what does this come what do you guys do um and they're like well here's what we do

00:26:04it

00:26:04was a payday lender i was like quick loans or something i don't remember um and i started to

00:26:11find out more about it i'm like this is a really sketchy business like it just sounds like you're loaning

00:26:19money to kind of broke people and you're kind of like making a profit off of people who can't afford

00:26:25things i was like that's really sketchy then i started asking more questions about like company

00:26:29culture and all these things and they're like oh it's wonderful it's great you know take time off

00:26:35there was just a big red flag somewhere in there and i went back home and i looked them up

00:26:40online

00:26:40and it had a 1.5 rating out of five stars on glassdoor on linkedin on all these places it

00:26:47was

00:26:47horrible all the reviews said never ever ever ever ever work there it is the worst place to work

00:26:53in the world like thousands of reviews that was like my wake-up calls like i need to research

00:27:00these places first um that was one of the one of the first few interviews i took trying to become

00:27:06a

00:27:07data analyst um just really bad really bad and it left left a bad taste in my mouth i was

00:27:13like i need

00:27:14to i need to look these companies up before because i have morals i have a moral compass that i

00:27:21would

00:27:21like to maintain uh throughout my career and so i don't want that to happen to you now uh some

00:27:26other

00:27:27things that it's really beneficial for and these are the ones and that was just like an anecdotal story

00:27:33of why partly why but these ones are really really uh really important the first thing is that it helps

00:27:39you understand the company's data and how they operate so for example i worked with a healthcare

00:27:45analytics for many years and i did it analytics as well cyber security um operational analytics all

00:27:51these things and what i've learned is that you can tell and maybe this comes with a little bit of

00:27:56experience i i can't it's hard to put myself in my my brain when i was first starting out but

00:28:02i can look

00:28:02at a website i can look at a company i can look on their website and i can tell pretty

00:28:07quickly what

00:28:07kind of data they use i can tell pretty quickly um you know what their business model is what they're

00:28:13trying to do with their data and when i go into an interview i can then talk about that i

00:28:18can say

00:28:18you know i was researching your company and it looks like this is kind of what you're doing uh with

00:28:22your data is that is that accurate and they'll tell you oh we're actually doing this that gets a good

00:28:26conversation rolling for oh well you know that's a really interesting process have you guys thought

00:28:32about doing something like this or have you guys done this before um and that definitely comes with

00:28:36experience right just knowledge of of working in these systems and so that is something that you

00:28:42know i have really utilized over the years of researching a company understanding what they do

00:28:47so that i don't look like to put it politely a buffoon uh i don't want to look like a

00:28:53buffoon when

00:28:54i'm in this interview they're like um i'm like hey what do you guys do they're like come on guy

00:29:00like at least look up the company know what our company does show a little bit of passion a little

00:29:04bit interest the next one says you can tailor your responses based off of their business or part of

00:29:09the business that's kind of what i was mentioning earlier is they'll ask you a question hey how do

00:29:13you know you know this skill or what do you know about this topic which is relevant to their business

00:29:18because again you're interviewing for a position at that company they want to make sure you're a good

00:29:22fit so if they ask you a question about that you can say well i don't know much about

00:29:26you know uh claims data right in health care that's something that i know about i don't know

00:29:32much about claims data but i've really been looking into it and it sounds like it's a really

00:29:35important part of the payment system for you know health care and how that works and you just looking

00:29:42that up and showing some initiative even if you don't know what it is just showing that initiative

00:29:46looks really good it's like okay this person is really interested and cares about this um and the

00:29:52last thing is it'll give you great questions to ask at the end of the interview now not a lot

00:29:56of

00:29:57people talk about that it's usually like how to answer the questions but good questions at the end

00:30:01of an interview beautiful i love them there i've had some great i've been interviewing people where

00:30:09they've asked me some great questions and it's left me thinking i'm just like they leave and i'm there

00:30:13with uh you know i remember i was uh oh oh geez i'm forgetting her name but um it was

00:30:20an old colleague

00:30:20of mine we we would do the interviews together i would just sit there i was like that was a

00:30:24really

00:30:24good question it like made me think of them and it kept me and kept them in my head um

00:30:29and there

00:30:29was one person who was a business analyst on our team who we hired not because of that but that

00:30:34really i remember i was like this guy had really good questions and it just it's really good it shows

00:30:39some initiative some thought and so if you research the company you're gonna you can use that to be

00:30:44like i saw on your website or i saw as your company does this how do you guys get the

00:30:48data for that um

00:30:50or what systems you use to collect that data and and you know what processes do you use i'm just

00:30:56pulling

00:30:56this out of the top of my head but these are these are questions that you can form before you

00:31:01go into

00:31:02the interview these are these are things that you need to do i'm gonna check time and grab uh some

00:31:07water real quick oh boy it's 11 30 already i'm running long

00:31:14these personal stories always uh always get me i i talk too long about these personal stories

00:31:19um the last one is not working with a recruiter now recruiters if you don't work with a recruiter

00:31:28you just do it all by yourself you're gonna end up uh like wilson here now if you don't know

00:31:32wilson

00:31:33uh look up um wilson wilson castaway uh it's a movie fantastic film highly recommend it but you're

00:31:41gonna be all by yourself you're gonna be on an island it's gonna be you versus the world and it's

00:31:45gonna be very very very very very tough especially in this tech atmosphere and and job market that

00:31:50we're in it's hard to do it by yourself i cannot stress enough how important recruiters are especially

00:31:56in today's age that's how i've gotten almost every job my first job is a data analyst recruiter

00:32:01second job as a data analyst recruiter third job as a data analyst i just got a promotion on my

00:32:06work

00:32:06so it doesn't really count but um recruiters are crazy important um i this one says the wrong thing

00:32:16here this is from a previous one ignore these this is i must have um accidentally deleted these and

00:32:22left some stuff from the old webinar um ignore the uh the the stuff there i'm just going to talk

00:32:28about

00:32:29it now recruiters are i'm going to tell you i think i've told the story before i worked with my

00:32:36very first recruiter back in 2017 and oh uh yes 2017 when i worked with this recruiter i thought it

00:32:45was

00:32:45a scam and in fact i thought i was going to get like he asked me to meet in person

00:32:50okay and so i go to

00:32:53this building and i'm like i've never met with a recruiter before never talked with a recruiting

00:32:58before so i was really skeptical i was like this guy's trying to help me get a job that doesn't

00:33:03sound right there's something wrong here i'm getting scammed so i tell my wife hey i'm meeting

00:33:10with this recruiter at this location if i don't call you in an hour something has gone wrong i was

00:33:14like

00:33:14i've been mugged i've been murdered or uh i'm in an interview i was like either way i was like

00:33:21just

00:33:21call me at this time to make sure i'm okay it turned out that i got my first job from

00:33:27that

00:33:27interview uh it was great but i was very very very skeptical i didn't understand how they work so

00:33:33here's how they work recruiters there's usually two types of recruiters there's third party recruiters

00:33:39and then there are company recruiters now third party recruiters are just a standalone recruiting

00:33:44company that's all they do they're a recruiting company and often they're called tech consult

00:33:48consulting recruiters or tech recruiters or just recruiters and it's exactly what they do is they

00:33:57partner with companies so i worked with a company called kpn healthcare analytics and it's on you can

00:34:03go on my linkedin and check them out so kpn consulted with this company to hire people and what they

00:34:10would

00:34:10do is they'd go out and they'd vet a bunch of people call people for them save kpn a lot

00:34:15of time

00:34:16because then they don't have to hire a recruiter they don't have to you know go through a thousand

00:34:21uh resumes this company would do it all for them then when this company got a person they would bring

00:34:27it to them they would bring them in for an interview and once they hired them they would

00:34:30pay the recruiting company a service fee usually it's like 10 of uh the person's salary so when i got

00:34:38on salary i got on salary for sixty three thousand dollars at that company so they didn't take my

00:34:44money they just said okay we're hiring them for sixty three thousand we're going to pay the recruiting

00:34:49company six thousand three hundred dollars now if they find it in a week that's sixty three hundred

00:34:54bucks uh in a week so that's how recruiting those those recruiting companies work and so you're not

00:34:59losing anything right you're not losing uh uh you're not going to lose some of your salary you're not

00:35:04going to do any of that you're just getting um sorry i saw somebody in the in the chat say

00:35:10something

00:35:10about the uh mugged murdered um but you're not giving up any money it's a it's essentially a free

00:35:19service to the candidate the company pays for that service um then there are company recruiters now

00:35:26these recruiters are working basically as a single recruiter or multiple recruiters within a company

00:35:32and they work for kpn for example we didn't have recruiters we used a third-party company

00:35:36but for bigger a lot of bigger companies they'll have a recruiting team where they'll go out and get

00:35:42uh people and so how can you work with these recruiters one of the best ways and i and i

00:35:47have

00:35:47videos on this i've posted about on linkedin so you know if you want to check it out more in

00:35:52depth

00:35:53the best way to work with recruiters is to work go on linkedin i i've gotten two jobs from linkedin

00:35:58highly highly highly recommend it um set up your profile make sure you have your skills in your

00:36:04uh job description put your resume on there make a good linkedin profile and then say you're open

00:36:09to work here are the jobs you're looking for really really recommend it the second thing is is i would

00:36:13reach out to recruiting companies so i'd message recruiters at companies i would message third-party

00:36:19recruiting companies send my resume and then i would try to partner with them there was a point back in

00:36:24in 2018 when i was trying to get my next data analyst job i was working with seven different

00:36:28recruiting services or people um so i was just i and i was just constantly once a week not constantly

00:36:35but every week i'd check in with them and say hey have you got anything come across your plate that

00:36:39you

00:36:39think i'd be a good fit for like really appreciate your help and then uh you know one would give

00:36:44me

00:36:44one for that week and then the other six wouldn't uh do anything and so i just keep hounding them

00:36:49essentially and it was a numbers game i just it was as much as i could as hard as i

00:36:54could i was just

00:36:54trying to get you know a different job uh for various reasons now there is one thing then and i

00:37:02actually saw i see this in the chat right now because i'm glancing over every so often when i see

00:37:06it i

00:37:06shouldn't do that but i am um it says uh are they trustworthy um there have been and there are

00:37:16fake companies out there that want your information to do that or to steal it or to sell it or

00:37:22to get

00:37:23you to buy things that you you know say you need and then they charge you for it that happens

00:37:29that

00:37:29is a real thing in my experience that's not crazy common like if you work with 20 recruiters maybe

00:37:36one of them that would that would happen with um i don't have the numbers in front of me but

00:37:41look that

00:37:42up make sure you're aware of what to look for um working with recruiters though i cannot stress

00:37:47how important it is it is very very very important so uh that is a really important one the next

00:37:55one

00:37:55is focusing only on hard skills uh i only had hard skills at least i thought i did i only

00:38:03had hard

00:38:03skills um at the beginning of my career i was like i know sequel please hire me um and that's

00:38:10that's it

00:38:10sequel was like my bread and butter that's all i knew so i really kind of um i really kind

00:38:18of pushed

00:38:18that hard skills like please anybody please hire me i know sequel um but hard skills are not the end

00:38:25all be all in fact i think more than it's like 50 50 once you get into an interview hard

00:38:31skills i

00:38:32believe get you into the interview soft skills plus hard skills 50 50 get you the actual job

00:38:40and here's why when you apply for a job they're going to look at your resume before you come in

00:38:45well at least one person is going to look at your resume and say hey he's got the hard skills

00:38:49they're

00:38:49going to bring you in for that interview so if you get in for an interview you at least pass

00:38:53that

00:38:53barrier right it's like you at least know something or enough of the hard skills you have at least have

00:38:59a good enough resume to get into an interview but once you get into that interview they're going to

00:39:04be like okay we know you have the hard skills explain the hard skills but we're also assessing your

00:39:08personality we're assessing your uh you know interest in this position we're assessing um how

00:39:15much you know about the company um how interested you are a lot of these like other things and so

00:39:21not just hard skills are important it's also your personality you know the way you talk about your time

00:39:27management the way you talk about how you do your work these things really matter because i've had a lot

00:39:33of people on paper look great in on resumes then they get in for an interview and i'm like i

00:39:38would

00:39:38never hire that person i i just that is like the opposite of the person that i want to hire

00:39:44um and i've gone back to like when i was the hiring manager i go back to the recruiters and

00:39:48say

00:39:49hey don't bring in people like that like try to vet them for that specific thing or these types of

00:39:55things in their personality or the way that that they do things because i would never hire someone like

00:40:00that so those are really really important um soft skills are kind of those intangibles like we're

00:40:06talking about work ethic communication time management these are things that it's hard to

00:40:11put on a resume you some people do it i don't it's hard to put on a resume um you

00:40:18you don't just want

00:40:18to say i'm good at communication uh because you may not be good at communication uh you may just put

00:40:26have it on your resume as a soft skill and so how you actually communicate how you actually talk to

00:40:31them makes a big big difference um and like i said at the beginning hard skills get you the interview

00:40:37soft skills get you the job i fully believe that uh i think that's the last one let me see

00:40:45real quick

00:40:46um so just to summarize before we move on to the q a time at the end which i love

00:40:52i've seen a lot of

00:40:52great questions um when you're when you are applying to jobs let's say right now you have

00:40:59no resume you have nothing you're just sitting there you have zero chance of getting a job you

00:41:03don't have a linkedin profile you don't have a resume you know zero skills you're just you're

00:41:08somebody you're a you're a person just existing you have zero chance of getting a job all of these

00:41:15things that you implement increase your chances creating a resume that's going to increase your chance

00:41:20of getting a job substantially that's very important right let's say it's 10 percent then you create a

00:41:26profile that's another five percent then you uh start working with recruiters that's another 10

00:41:30percent and then you start um being getting better at communication and and all these things each thing

00:41:36gives you a higher percentage if you only do two of them you only do one of them it gives

00:41:40you a

00:41:40smaller percentage so that's how i've always thought about like in my mind i'm like i need to give

00:41:46myself the best chance i can at getting a job after that um it's kind of a numbers game it's

00:41:52a waiting

00:41:53game it's a numbers game and there are fluctuations in the market and so you know maybe right now it's

00:42:00not the best hiring i've looked at a lot of data i've talked to a lot of people i think

00:42:052024 is

00:42:06actually going to be a big year for hiring uh especially during the second half this first half

00:42:10is like the beginning of a new year with financials and all these things it's not a typically a very

00:42:15high hiring season um but when you hit like this over the summer and then you hit uh towards the

00:42:21end of the year i actually think we're gonna have a big uh a big hiring uh season at that

00:42:26time so

00:42:27position yourself add those percentage points throughout this next upcoming year and start

00:42:33applying you don't have to wait till the end of next year start applying now because then you'll

00:42:37maybe you'll get an interview or you'll you know you'll uh get some opportunities you can start

00:42:42networking you start building things so that when hiring picks up a lot you're there to ride that

00:42:46wave instead of just starting and then you're like oh no i can't ride the wave because i don't have

00:42:50anything ready um and so it's kind of a numbers game it's a preparation game um but there are still

00:42:55a

00:42:55lot of jobs out there still a lot out there you just got to be prepared for them and apply

00:43:00for them

00:43:01uh so with that being said uh i'm gonna bring will back he'll give a little he'll say some stuff

00:43:08i'm

00:43:08sure and then we'll do some q and a and i'm gonna get a sip of water roll alex this

00:43:13is great loved it

00:43:14absolutely loved it also 2024 big year for hiring uh you heard it here first thank you for that and

00:43:20also i thought alex um researching or not researching before interviews i thought there was

00:43:25some fantastic advice on that slide and i think one thing which our career specialists at career 100

00:43:30also say is it is it's a fantastic chance for you to scope the company so um don't feel like

00:43:35all the

00:43:35pressures on you in the interview it's also your chance to be able to scope the company and see

00:43:41whether you'll be a good fit there or if you even want to work there so um i love the

00:43:45radical candor

00:43:46um that was fantastic i'm going to jump into the questions a lot of questions are coming through

00:43:52um i think we'll just pick up a few first um unless you've seen any that you want to hone

00:43:58in on

00:43:58no you do much better than i do okay okay you ask better questions than i okay um um there's

00:44:06a

00:44:06great question come through through from uh pe initials um what to do if we've been messaging

00:44:11people on linkedin and not getting any responses it could be i would say just on a quick uh it's

00:44:20probably one of two things one your message is probably wrong uh and i say that in the most loving

00:44:26way uh just when you message somebody you know there are some cultural things or societal things

00:44:32that you shouldn't do you shouldn't ask for an interview shouldn't ask them to immediately review

00:44:36your resume although you can or look at your resume you shouldn't immediately ask for something

00:44:42typically you want to introduce yourself and create that relationship first hey i saw you work

00:44:46at this company i'm really interested in that i'd love to learn more i just want to you know

00:44:50wanted to reach out and connect with you that is a very soft approach that's a very you don't want

00:44:54that really hard firm approach of i want a job your job as a recruiter give me a job um

00:45:01that could

00:45:02be the first issue the second issue could be your profile um if somebody messages me i often look at

00:45:07their profile just to see what it looks like i'm just curious i'm a curious person like anybody else

00:45:11so if i get a message from a random person um they're probably going to click on your profile

00:45:15and if it's a bad profile if you have nothing on there no posts no engagement just a blank profile

00:45:21i i would not be interested in talking with that person because i don't know them i can't get a

00:45:26glimpse of who they are on their profile so those are the two things i'd look at if that's the

00:45:31issue

00:45:31that you're having i think that's some great advice also on linkedin you see the quick apply button

00:45:38never press it it's so you think that you want to press it just don't press it uh just have

00:45:43a little

00:45:43bit of thought and approach with a great question uh take a little bit more time um another great

00:45:48question uh coming through and then apologies if i pronounce anyone's names wrong uh nickel is asking

00:45:53alex how many projects should a candidate aim to include in their portfolio at a minimum i recommend

00:46:01three right just three solid projects um they don't have to be crazy advanced just something to

00:46:07showcase your skills uh you know on on my channel i have a ton of projects i i think those

00:46:12are good

00:46:12projects to start with right because you're just looking for the intermediate skills of

00:46:18let's say python of data analysis so you're looking for someone who knows how to use uh like

00:46:24a pandas data frame and manipulate the data a little bit maybe bring in the data uh from like a

00:46:29file

00:46:29like not crazy difficult stuff but three projects at least shows hey they didn't just stop at one

00:46:35three is like hey they put some time and effort into this they built a website this is something

00:46:39they've they put a lot of time into i wouldn't go higher than about seven ish because then it's

00:46:46too many projects once you get to seven then you start taking the bad ones off and you start

00:46:51replacing them with better ones and you keep doing that until you only have good projects right you

00:46:55just seven great projects that's my recommendation i've seen people do 10 15 but that's not my

00:47:01personal recommendation you might start to get a little bit overwhelming if you're presented with

00:47:0610 or 15 projects as a in a hiring position um i know we've got a lot of beginners watching

00:47:13this

00:47:13evening too so if if a resume does land on your table alex what are the kind of the core

00:47:19hard skills

00:47:20that you want to see in terms of tools because there's so many tools out there what are the main

00:47:24ones that you want to see that's a great question and and actually this is a good a good place

00:47:30to

00:47:30mention this you know i always talk about sql excel python tableau power beyond my channel

00:47:36always because i think there's such core fundamental skills but i myself know like 20 other skills that

00:47:44are not those um you know because i just worked with cloud platforms multiple cloud platforms i've

00:47:50worked with in my job i worked with so many different tools some proprietary tools um and different

00:47:56microsoft tools that most people haven't heard of and those are the core skills if you're looking for

00:48:03just like a general data analyst position but when you look on a job description you'll you'll see all

00:48:09these random tools right it's like um oh what's databricks what's um azure data factory what's aws glue

00:48:17what's um uh looker what's all these different tools i have no idea what those are well those are the

00:48:24tools that that company is using so when when i was a hiring manager we were um oh geez it's

00:48:32escaping

00:48:32me at this moment we were using this uh uh microsoft tool that i had never used before well i

00:48:38was i was

00:48:38my job was to migrate all of our data to azure cloud that was what i was hired to be

00:48:43a manager for

00:48:43so we had this old system uh and we were we were migrating it but i needed to hire people

00:48:48who had this

00:48:48skill uh data analysts business analysts who knew this tool already and it's a niche tool it's like

00:48:54not a huge population of people and so i needed someone who already knew the tool and so that

00:48:59really narrowed down who i could hire so i always recommend sql excel python tableau power bi always

00:49:06because look at the percentages if you apply for a data analyst position today there's probably about

00:49:12a 75 chance one of those skills will be on there i'd say a 30 chance two of those skills

00:49:18well maybe

00:49:19excel sql going to be on most of them um but there's gonna be a high percentage chance that

00:49:24those skills will be on there then there are these small little niche tools um or things within tools

00:49:29like within uh the cloud or within um some smaller tools that you can learn but it gives you a

00:49:36smaller

00:49:36percentage chance i'm not saying don't learn it um but if you want to give yourself the highest chance

00:49:42learn those tools so when a resume to get back to the question when a resume comes across my desk

00:49:47it

00:49:47depends on what i'm hiring for when i was on the hiring team for data analysts we need somebody who

00:49:52knew sql really well and that was our main thing python was a plus and then excel so that's that's

00:49:58what we really were looking for but it would be a bonus if they already knew azure because we were

00:50:02starting to migrate to azure um in that position so i'm looking for things that are relevant to the

00:50:08position we're hiring for when i was a hiring manager we i didn't care about sql because we

00:50:13weren't using it um we were trying to migrate to a system where we could utilize sql um which was

00:50:19in

00:50:19in the cloud in azure but we didn't use it so i couldn't hire for that and i and i

00:50:23needed someone now

00:50:24who knew this tool so you know look at the job description see what they're hiring for because

00:50:30that's what they're going to look for they're going to look for those things uh whatever in their

00:50:33job description they're going to ask about it that's what they're going to look for

00:50:38awesome great advice i also loved how you broke it down into percentages and probability

00:50:42um i think that um i wouldn't expect anything less from a data analyst but i think that's a

00:50:47great approach to do it too um i think maria has also got a fantastic question and this is a

00:50:52this

00:50:52is a question um for people who are recent graduates um you know the job market can feel a little

00:50:58bit

00:50:58intimidating especially when you've just graduated how is the best way to find a job for a recent

00:51:03graduate that's from maria yeah recent graduate i i that's my that's my bread and butter right

00:51:10people who are trying to break into data analytics also people who are like out of college out of

00:51:15their master's program that's the majority people who i talk to and who i i you know cater my content

00:51:21towards because that's where i was um the best thing that you can do is everything that we just

00:51:28talked about in the in this uh webinar and i'm being genuine about that really every this all is

00:51:35catered almost every single piece was catered to you um the biggest things these are the hierarchy

00:51:42for you create a really good resume there are lots of resources for creating great resumes i have some

00:51:49myself create a really strong resume then create a really good linkedin profile then work with a

00:51:56recruiter if i could only choose three out of this whole list i would do those three things those are

00:52:00the things i would start with i would make really good and i would do them relentlessly i would keep

00:52:05updating my resume as i got more projects as i did more stuff i would keep updating my linkedin i

00:52:10create

00:52:10posts i would then work with a recruiter and not work with one recruiter i would work with as many

00:52:15recruiters i could possibly work with i'd email them every single week i'd call them once a week

00:52:20and i would keep messaging them until they blocked me because that is just unfortunately how you have

00:52:24to get a job uh these days that's it's similar to how when i was when i was first getting

00:52:30my job

00:52:30it hasn't changed too too much it's just maybe a little bit tougher these days but genuinely persistence

00:52:37and and being really consistent at it is that's all i applied to thousands of jobs that's an exaggeration

00:52:46it was like a thousand and ten but it was over a thousand jobs and i worked with tons of

00:52:51recruiters

00:52:51and and it's just that consistency and that persistence that's going to really help you

00:52:56you know break in and get that first job

00:52:59alex were you doing it on a reward base so that you you you got two um applications out and

00:53:04then you

00:53:05rewarded yourself or what kept what kept you going through the through the storm no it was um i in

00:53:11at

00:53:12at that time um when i was when i applied for those thousands jobs uh it was over a thousand

00:53:18jobs i was

00:53:21i was making 36 000 a year we just found out my wife had gotten pregnant i was having that

00:53:26oh my

00:53:27goodness moment i need to make more money um and so i like i went all in i was like

00:53:33i am going to

00:53:34make this happen i don't care how unqualified i am or how little i know i am going to make

00:53:40it happen

00:53:40and i did i i just i had that never give up never quit don't stop until it i make

00:53:46it happen kind of

00:53:47attitude that's where i was at the time i think that's awesome but i think it does go to show

00:53:53though

00:53:53that um you know keeping on track keeping the the goal in aim um and doing methodically um we also

00:54:01see

00:54:01the career foundry the graduates that go through the ones that put in the work and the ones that

00:54:05apply on a regular basis um are the ones who are more likely to to land that job so the

00:54:10motivation

00:54:11and that will to land the job is is also going to put you in a in a good place

00:54:15um let's talk

00:54:16transferable skills david's got a great question um it's a little bit on a specific industry but i think

00:54:22we can also take it more general do you have any tips about highlighting transferable skills

00:54:26when your experience is all in one sector david is also a healthcare analyst cool yeah so i worked

00:54:34uh this is this is great because this this was me i worked um as in healthcare for years i

00:54:42was working

00:54:42in nursing homes i was working in uh rehabilitation centers i was working on the actual like healthcare

00:54:50side um then i was working in er's or icus or different stuff like just that's what i did

00:54:56throughout college and then out of college that's what i did um now i didn't have any data analyst

00:55:02experience but what i did was i was like okay this is something i think was really helpful that's like

00:55:07i'm glad you're asking this because i didn't really this is kind of like don't have the generic resumes

00:55:12like catering your resume i did do this one thing which is i realized that my healthcare experience was

00:55:16really valuable i was like okay i have domain knowledge of how things work in an actual hospital

00:55:22or at a rehabilitation center or at this these places i understand how they collect the data with

00:55:27you know in the ehr systems or however they're collecting it and why that data is important like i

00:55:32understand these things i just haven't ever used it in the data world and so on my resume i would

00:55:38then

00:55:38write you know experience uh collecting or or using data like this and i would talk about claims data

00:55:46i talk about hixpix codes or icd codes or loint codes and i would talk about um you know diagnosis

00:55:53codes and how we would use that to bill for billing and all that stuff so i really do think

00:55:59you most a

00:56:00lot of jobs you need domain knowledge for you can use that and talk about it in a way that

00:56:06somebody

00:56:06who's hiring for a data position is going to be like i recognize that that person knows what they're

00:56:11talking about and that's it's a good thing right that's a really good thing for a recruiter or a

00:56:16hiring manager to see i think another thing um also working with career foundry graduates and

00:56:23hosting a lot of online events is that we have a lot of people thinking about career change thinking

00:56:27about shifting over and they come from either like a marketing background they come from a liberal arts

00:56:31background so many different backgrounds and um when they're making a career change the first thought

00:56:37is that i'm going to be starting at completely at the bottom i'm starting at zero but forgetting all of

00:56:44the professional experience that they've had before that wealth of knowledge the transferable

00:56:48skills presentation skills soft skills all these things so actually you're not you're not you're

00:56:52not starting at you're not starting at the base you're not starting at naught you're bringing all

00:56:55that knowledge and they're going to also help you in your new career um alex i know that this evening

00:57:01uh we also spoke a lot about uh recruiters uh finding recruiters um ebony's got a great question

00:57:07um how do you go about finding recruiters via linkedin

00:57:14i have a video that literally shows you how to do this uh i recommend it i don't remember what

00:57:21it's

00:57:21called i have a video doing showing this exact thing i show you how to do it i'll talk about

00:57:25it

00:57:25but it might be you know this old noodle of mine i'm not 100 if i'm going to get it

00:57:31all exactly

00:57:31correct but here's how you can do it and this is this is like recruiter gold what you can do

00:57:40is you

00:57:40can go and what i would do is i would apply for a job right i go and i'd say

00:57:44oh here's a job for

00:57:45um alex analytics llc is that's that's my company i found this job i'm going to click on it

00:57:53or i'm going to apply for the job and then i'm going to click on it i'm going to go

00:57:57to the the

00:57:58company you can go down and find people you can then search for people within that company i would

00:58:02type in recruiter then you can find all the recruiters you can message one say hey i just

00:58:06applied for this job and you can link the original job you can say i'm really excited about i think

00:58:11my

00:58:11skills really fit it um i'd love to chat more about what the position entails just something quick

00:58:16something easy and i have in that video somewhere i have some information on that but it's so easy and

00:58:22you can do that for any job that you're like really really really interested in if you find a job

00:58:27that you're like i really want that job that fits my skills perfectly it's exactly what i'm looking

00:58:31for it's in the location i'm looking for and i've had lots of jobs like that i never got called

00:58:36back

00:58:36for but i'm not salty about it um you know you can go and you can actually find the person

00:58:41or the

00:58:41recruiter for that company that is lovely highly recommend it the next thing that you can do is you

00:58:48can have recruiters reach out to you now this is on the profile side you're going to go to profile

00:58:52you're going to say uh you know what give me a second i'm going to go on my linkedin real

00:58:55quick

00:58:56i'm not pulling it up on my my profile probably uh because it's got a lot of stuff on it

00:59:01but you

00:59:01can say open to here it is you can say open to and then there's finding a new job and

00:59:06then you can

00:59:06specify exactly what you're looking for job title location uh on-site or remote your start date full

00:59:12time part time and if recruiters can see it or if uh the anyone can see it so those are

00:59:18all the things

00:59:18you can specify and i've had over the years even when i had no experience i had lots of recruiters

00:59:24reaching out that's where i was working with all these recruiters so i highly highly recommend

00:59:28those two things great advice see linkedin is your friend we're also streaming live on linkedin at

00:59:35the moment so hello to everyone there i know we've got a question over there but firstly uh it's the

00:59:40time of the evening where we're talking about existential questions um and uh jaleesa's got a

00:59:46great question an existential question also basing that you said earlier that 2024 is going to be a

00:59:51big year for hiring do you think the data analytics role will be around for a long time

00:59:56and how can it potentially evolve over time right and i'm sure you're referencing ai uh and i've i've

01:00:03been if nothing else semi-obsessive over this for the past year um you probably don't see it a lot

01:00:09but i look into this stuff way more than i should uh probably more than most probably i'm in the

01:00:1499th

01:00:15percentile for sure um and i what's really great about you know my brand and who i am is i

01:00:21have

01:00:22connections to a lot of really cool people um who know more than i do and so i talk to

01:00:27them about

01:00:27these things and i call them up and you know i know director of analytics at some big companies and

01:00:32i'm like hey how is how do you see this affecting your your business or your company i talk about

01:00:36them

01:00:36uh talk about that with them here's what i've distilled over the past year and what i see

01:00:42um how i see the world of analytics changing and what it's going to do in the future i think

01:00:47i had

01:00:47i think we did we do a webinar on this uh in the past we did one on chat gpt

01:00:55yeah maybe it was just

01:00:57that which was a good one uh okay i couldn't remember if we did a whole webinar on this though

01:01:03but

01:01:03um anyways i digress everything that i've found is ai is great if you just go on linkedin and twitter

01:01:14and type in ai all you are going to see is ai is going to replace all the jobs in

01:01:22tech ai is going

01:01:23to do this ai is going to do this it's a lot of hype and there are some truth to

01:01:28what they're saying

01:01:29uh with some of the things that the abilities that it can do i have used ai enough and i've

01:01:34talked to

01:01:35so many people like probably upwards of 30 40 people who are really experts some of who are even

01:01:41trying to implement ai into their companies ai if nothing else i've heard i've i haven't heard

01:01:50anybody let me let me rephrase that i've heard one person say hey and i'm thinking of a specific

01:01:56person who was just like it could but i don't see it happening but it's possible this could happen

01:02:01the other 39 people let's say it was 40 the other 39 people every single one of them was like

01:02:07no this

01:02:08is going to add more work and it's actually going to explore going to have to expand our team to

01:02:13accommodate now here's why now when i i put myself in the shoes back when i was an analytics manager

01:02:19and i'm like okay how would this have impacted my business i thought about this a lot

01:02:24ai is really cool really great stuff especially for coding for you know for for building things

01:02:31it's great but ai is not perfect uh and in fact i've used it so much now that i'm like

01:02:37i really have a great feeling that you know even if it gets a little bit better progressively better

01:02:44it's never going to get to the point where it's going to replace me as a person

01:02:48um just because i i just how i use it now if i'm back in that manager position i'm looking

01:02:55at it

01:02:55i'm like how would i integrate ai well i know a few specific things i could integrate ai into

01:03:01but i can't just put ai into the system and it does everything it's not possible it would not have

01:03:08been possible back when i was a manager i just know it because how our systems work how our data

01:03:13are

01:03:13siloed how um our systems are connected how we collect our data how we uh how we store our data

01:03:19in these cold and hot storages in the cloud it just would not have been possible uh to ever replace

01:03:25anybody um but i know there are specific processes within our thing that ai could definitely have helped

01:03:31with and so i would have brought someone in who is a who knows ai like an ai engineer or

01:03:36a data

01:03:36engineer who could implement it to help streamline that process once you streamline one you're going to

01:03:42streamline more and you're going to keep going that's going to take years of work um those are

01:03:48just parts bits of the whole the whole is where all the everything is and so when i talk to

01:03:54all these

01:03:54people they're like well we're trying to implement it for this single use case we're trying to implement

01:03:59ai for this workflow but that's only like one percent of the work or five percent of their work

01:04:04it's very small so you know right now even within the next 10 years i see ai being an enabler

01:04:13and a

01:04:13grower of what we're able to do and how we're able to do our work so for analytics i i

01:04:20all i genuinely

01:04:22i i genuinely don't see it reducing work uh or the amount of people who are in in analytics i

01:04:30see it

01:04:30increasing it and almost everybody that i've talked to almost everybody says the exact same

01:04:36thing they're like oh yeah we're gonna have to hire on more people for this and it's only for

01:04:39this specific thing you don't there isn't just a data analyst ai even uh the data analyst ai in

01:04:46chat to et i've used it a lot i never even made a video on it because i am i

01:04:51uh talking about what i

01:04:52experienced but even when i was using that i was like this is good but it's not great it's not

01:04:58like

01:04:58this is like entry-level stuff like an entry-level analyst could do this and probably do a little

01:05:03bit better but it helps with the workflow and so from my experience my personal experience data

01:05:10analytics is going to be here for a long time i do think though that ai is going to become

01:05:15a

01:05:15necessary skill in the next two three five years like it's going to be in implement integrated in a

01:05:21lot more places especially as google and microsoft start rolling out co-pilots and all these

01:05:26different ai assistants you're going to need to know how to use them um but all these core skills

01:05:31are still going to be there you are still going to need to know how to use sql you're still

01:05:36going

01:05:36to need to know how to use excel and python and cloud platforms and tableau and power bi i promise

01:05:42it look come back to this webinar in five years now i am wrong i will give you a thousand

01:05:47dollars cash

01:05:48i will then mow you that money if in five years somebody bookmarked this somebody put a timer

01:05:53a thousand dollars cash i promise you i am so confident you are going to need to know those

01:05:57skills in five years i it's it's like 99.9 but you but ai is going to be an assistant

01:06:04to that right

01:06:04so you know in the future yeah harry said deal all right harry's got me message me i'm not even

01:06:11joking somebody put that on their calendar five years from now in the future you're going to need

01:06:16to know these skills these skills aren't going away businesses need information they thrive on data

01:06:21they thrive on these things and more companies now are going to need data teams that they never

01:06:26had before especially small and medium-sized company who've never developed a data team

01:06:30they're going to have to create a data team to keep up they're going to have to and so who's

01:06:35going to

01:06:35analyze that data are you going to fully rely on ai to do that and not have you know somebody

01:06:40who

01:06:40really knows what they're talking about you're not going to do it i just it would be such a bad

01:06:45move

01:06:45it'd be a bad business move to do that so i'm going on a rant i'm i i've i've completely

01:06:53taken over this qa section but i'm very i'm very passionate about it i really am because

01:06:57even eight months ago or no at the beginning of this year let's say like 10 11 months ago i

01:07:03went

01:07:03through like this existential i'm like i'm like is analytics gone like i just didn't know enough about

01:07:08it now that i've used it i've talked to tons of people i follow it really closely i'm i've been

01:07:14i'm

01:07:14more confident now than ever that analytics is for sure going to be around even 10 15 20 years from

01:07:21now i've seen exactly the same just to echo your points i think at the beginning of the year i

01:07:27mean

01:07:27ai's been here a lot longer than just this year um but uh with the arrival of chat gpt um

01:07:33especially

01:07:33at the start of this year i think there was a lot of fear at the start but the more

01:07:36i've spoken to

01:07:37industry professionals like you um other tech professionals who've been on the channel um through

01:07:43instagram there's just so much optimism and so much motivation also around this topic and i think

01:07:49uh people are seeing that it's gonna you know it's gonna they're gonna work with ai to take their jobs

01:07:54to the next level and it's going to create a lot of opportunity one thing i also wanted to say

01:07:58in terms

01:07:59of integration and to just do a shameless plug is that our curriculum editors at career foundry have

01:08:03also been working uh very fast in the background and have updated the full data analytics program with

01:08:08ai content too so i'll just put that shameless plug out there i'm going to ask a couple of questions

01:08:14i

01:08:14know we're running a little bit over time but i do want to come back to linkedin because hilda's got

01:08:17a great question a difficult question we haven't asked this one before uh the dreaded moment that

01:08:24you're in the interview and uh the interviewer says that you're overqualified what do you do what do

01:08:32i've never had that happen i i i've never been overqualified for a position um you know i think

01:08:40i've heard that happen and i've thought about it before and and here's what i would say i would

01:08:43i if i if that were me i was in that moment and they're like hey you're overqualified like i'm

01:08:49going

01:08:49back to a entry-level data analyst position i've been an analytics manager i've run my own company i'm

01:08:53running my own company let's say i go back i'd be like hey listen i would not be applying for

01:08:57this job

01:08:57if i didn't see myself at this company or in this position for a long time that's what i would

01:09:02say

01:09:02i would say i'm applying to this job for a reason it's because i really believe in the company i

01:09:07really

01:09:07want to be at the in this role and i want to grow with this team that's what i would

01:09:12say i hope that's

01:09:13pretty good thanks alex i think somebody asked whether your offer is going to be adjusted for

01:09:19inflation in five years uh that's a question that's come up um alex thank you so much for

01:09:28presenting this evening i know that we had a lot of questions uh we do have to cut it off

01:09:31um but

01:09:32thank you so so much for anyone in the career foundry community who's been watching this evening

01:09:36do check out alex's youtube channel alex the analyst if you click in the live section too you'll

01:09:42find some past live events that we've done we've covered a broad array of different topics including

01:09:46chat gpt uh networking uh entry-level jobs we've covered a lot so do check those out and also

01:09:53check out um alex's uh videos uh they're super good and um i think alex you've got over six have

01:10:00you how many how many subscribers do you have now i don't know i haven't looked it's like 6 30

01:10:05or

01:10:05something it's somewhere around there just if you're in the career foundry community haven't checked out

01:10:09the channel get over there like and subscribe um because it's fantastic content one thing that we're

01:10:15currently running as well for those watching on big market but also on youtube if you click in the

01:10:18description below is that alex is currently giving away a 20 off career foundry's data analytics

01:10:23program all you have to do is click the link and if you're not quite ready you can also book

01:10:27a call

01:10:28with one of our program advisors to find out more about the career foundry program the curriculum job

01:10:32guarantee uh the new ai integration everything you can ask the questions over there so do and do go

01:10:38over there and one last thing that i wanted because i did mention the curriculum editors before is

01:10:43the career foundry does also have a fantastic blog i'm just going to post a link on big market do

01:10:49check out the career foundry data analytics blog and we also do a career foundry short course so if

01:10:55you're interested in data analytics i'll just post a link here a lot of links but um do check that

01:11:00out

01:11:00it's like a five five day introductory course where you get a little bit of a taster of data analytics

01:11:05alex we're going to be doing an event again in january to kick off 2024 and to see um how

01:11:12hiring is

01:11:13going we will have our finger on the pulse then um but thank you so so much for joining thank

01:11:17you for

01:11:18all the questions from the audience uh we love to see alex's audience on the career foundry channel

01:11:22and the enthusiasm for data analytics and data cleaning that i know some of you have is admirable

01:11:29and um that's it we're calling a close thank you so so much for joining this evening and alex we'll

01:11:34see

01:11:34you again next time thank you so much

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