Breaking into Data Analytics
Key Takeaways:- Learn what data skills and soft skills you need for that first data role.
- Understand the hiring process, from responding to the job advert through to getting your offer letter.
- Learn about creating a portfolio and other ways to show off your skills.
Description
Working in data can be an amazing career path: it's intellectually rewarding, well paid, and lots of fun. However, the prestige of this role also makes it tricky to break into.
In this webinar, you'll learn from Lindsay Murphy - a Head of Data with considerable hiring experience - what really matters when you are trying to get hired for that dream data role. Learn about the skills you need, and how to present them in a way that will get you noticed by data hiring managers.
Presenter Bio
Lindsay Murphy is a data leader with 12 years of industry experience. She is currently the Head of Data at Secoda, a data discovery platform focused on helping data teams manage their stack end-to-end and contain data sprawl. As Head of Data, Lindsay focuses on community thought leadership, product development, and building out the data infrastructure at Secoda. Prior to Secoda, Lindsay led the data teams at Maple, a Canadian virtual healthcare company, and launched the Business Intelligence and Analytics practice at BenchSci, another Canadian startup in the early drug discovery space. Lindsay is also a co-organizer of the Toronto Modern Data Stack Meetup, an instructor of Advanced dbt with Uplimit, and the host of a new podcast titled {{Women Lead Data}}.