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How to Promote Yourself in Today’s Data Science Job Market

OCRUG 2nd Data Science Hackathon

Zhi Yang, PhD

2019-11-09

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Who am I to talk about this?

  1. PhD in Biostatistics from USC
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Who am I to talk about this?

  1. PhD in Biostatistics from USC
  2. Organizer of LA East R Users Group
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Who am I to talk about this?

  1. PhD in Biostatistics from USC
  2. Organizer of LA East R Users Group
  3. International Student from China
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Who am I to talk about this?

  1. PhD in Biostatistics from USC
  2. Organizer of LA East R Users Group
  3. International Student from China
  4. Received DS interview invitations from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, FB
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I know! Because you have a PhD.

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I know! Because you have a PhD.

No!
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Unsolved mysteries

😟 ATS system hates my resume

🤗 Hiring managers DM me on LinkedIn

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What I've done in the past year

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Introducing three plans

3 months -> internship:

LinkedIn + GitHub

3 months -> full-time job:

LinkedIn + GitHub + Portfolio

more than 3 months:

LinkedIn + GitHub + Portfolio + Twitter

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What I would do if I am doing a hackathon?

A step-by-step stressfree tutorial
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First module

  1. Sign up for a LinkedIn account
  2. Get a professional headshot
  3. Use the FREE one-month LinkedIn premium
  4. Connect John and me on LinkedIn
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Second module

  1. Choose where to publish your work

    GitHub, Azure Notebooks, RPubs, ...

  2. Learn literate statistical programming

    RMarkdown, Jupyter Notebook

  3. Document your workflow and ideas

    Notion, Wunderlist, ...

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Things to do today

  1. Connect/Endorse ppl on LinkedIn
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Things to do today

  1. Connect/Endorse ppl on LinkedIn
  2. Take a group photo with laptops
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Things to do today

  1. Connect/Endorse ppl on LinkedIn
  2. Take a group photo with laptops
  3. Post a status on LinkedIn
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Things to do today

  1. Connect/Endorse ppl on LinkedIn
  2. Take a group photo with laptops
  3. Post a status on LinkedIn
  4. Update your profile by tomorrow
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Post a status on LinkedIn

Don'ts

one sentence

a photo of yourself

mention no one

no hashtags

No tagging companies

Dos

Action and results

a photo with your team

@ your team/organizers

use buzzwords hashtags

Tagging all the time

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Don't be afraid to tag big companies

Hadley has 96.2K followers on Twitter

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Update your profile

  1. make your headline stand out

    Looking for data science jobs

  2. summarize your achievements

    including keywords from job descriptions and cover letters

  3. take skill quiz

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Update your profile

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Update your profile

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Portfolio website with blogdown

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Make a website under 20 mins

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Portfolio website with blogdown

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A page dedicated to a project

FREE 90-min workshop on portfolio building

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Things to do tomorrow

  1. Take a photo of team presentation/winning
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Things to do tomorrow

  1. Take a photo of team presentation/winning
  2. Create sharable links for slides and projects
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Things to do tomorrow

  1. Take a photo of team presentation/winning
  2. Create sharable links for slides and projects
  3. Post a status on LinkedIn
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Things to do tomorrow

  1. Take a photo of team presentation/winning
  2. Create sharable links for slides and projects
  3. Post a status on LinkedIn
  4. Write a post on LinkedIn/Medium/blog
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Write a post on LinkedIn

What to write about?

What you've achieved? -> I just completed two-day #datascience #hackathon

What you've learned? -> data viz, coding, teamwork, networking, presenting

Who would you thank? -> @ team + organizers

Why are you posting? -> I'm currently looking for DS internship/full-time jobs

project links + group photos + gif of dataviz

use spaces between paragraphs

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Post a status on LinkedIn

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Create an image for your status

Please don't do the following

Show more than one link.

Use non-clickable images.

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Create an image for your status

It is made in PowerPoint. No Photoshop is needed.

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Write a post on LinkedIn/Medium/blog

7 things that I learned from my first hackathon

What I've learned from winning/failing my first hackathon

Why and how to attend your first hackathon

How to win a hackathon as a student

Hackathon survival guide: sleep

Announcing the Winners of hackathon

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How to navigate on LinkedIn premium

  1. Get an all-star profile

  2. Connect to LIONs

  3. Post relevant contents

  4. DM hiring managers

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How to DM a hiring manager

  1. Type "hiring" in search bar

  2. Send a short paragragh

  3. If get replied, always ask to connect

  4. Touch base every 2~3 months

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How to DM a hiring manager

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Monitor your audiences

~2w ago: announcing the events

~2m ago: posting a Google AIY project

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Monitor your audiences

Who is viewing your status?

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Twitter impressions

Your future employee might be watching you.

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Should I prioritize self branding?

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The Exponential Impact of Social Media

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How to be good at it?

Practice makes perfect
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Introducing "all in one" incredible plan

Become a social media volunteer today!

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Thanks! and Keep in touch


Follow me on Twitter (@zhiiiyang)

Connect me on LinkedIn (@zhiiiyang)


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Who am I to talk about this?

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