everyone Ken here back with another data science video are you struggling to find
new opportunities either jobs or internships in data science I think this
video will help you because I'm going through my favourite places to look and
to find new opportunities if this content interests you if you liked the
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please subscribe and turn on notifications to my channel so some of
these are gonna be fairly obvious but there are others in here that I think
will open your eyes to how many different places there are opportunities
available I'd like to start off with LinkedIn and Glassdoor indeed jobs from
the traditional job websites I think that these are great resources
especially LinkedIn make sure your profile is well curated it has all of
the relevant work experience and it shows that you are interested in a data
science job something that a lot of people don't know about LinkedIn and
some of these other websites is that employers have to pay a reasonable
amount money sometimes upwards of $1,000 to have a job posting up so
you're not going to necessarily get companies that are smaller or startups
some of them that are really looking to grow their data science departments are
not going to be there so you have to look at some other places to find these
types of jobs another place out consider looking is related to LinkedIn but it
isn't necessarily on the job posting board so LinkedIn has a lot of smaller
communities related to data science or related to finding jobs and those are
great places to start a dialog to post your your background and resume and
potentially you find a new opportunity in addition to that Facebook also has a
bunch of communities related to data science and there are constant postings
related to jobs internships etc finally reddit also has a subreddit related to
data science jobs where employers post more and more jobs and internships so
those are kind of outside the box places to look to engage in a community to get
feedback on your resume and to actually find at this position that you're
looking for well it's not a digital community per se your educational
network is also an awesome place to find these opportunities you can look on the
on the job posting boards from your school mine
have gone through handshake in the past or you can look within school Korea
groups job fairs etc to find these these new positions I highly recommend
reaching out to alumni reaching out people that have jobs that you are
interested in and asking them how they got there they might be able to open a
few doors for you and to make your career dreams come true actually I've
always been interested in working to start up and on LinkedIn and some of
these other big companies it's really hard to find small startup jobs in those
roles you have a lot more freedom flexibility to be able to make a large
impact on the company there's a couple places in particular that I think you
should look for these types of jobs the first being at incubators or
accelerators there's plenty in almost every large city and they usually have a
job posting for the next one is on built-in XYZ city so I live in Chicago
they built in Chicago website that promotes jobs for local Chicago startups
I believe there's a built in Austin built in Boulder etc and that is an
awesome resource to see what's available in a specific location that you're
looking at the last one which I would also recommend is going to meetups or
entrepreneurship events you can just go to meetup.com and there are plenty of
opportunities plenty of networking events within your field within data
science with in machine learning with and even a very specific niche of that
so just networking and meeting people that are in that field you can generally
get pointed in the correct direction if you're still in school or you have
access to them I would also really recommend hackathons so working with
other programmers and groups it's a great representation of what work in the
real world is like and a lot of these events are sponsored by corporations a
bunch of different companies this is a great pipeline to access the people that
are associated with these companies and the opportunities that these companies
provide if all those fails I would just find a list of companies that you like
and go to their websites and look at the career pages you might see a job or an
internship an opportunity that is similar to what you want to do
and if you show initiative if you talk to a recruiter you talk to a company
they might be able to open a role for you with your specific set of skills
this happened to me when I took a summer internship at draftkings I enjoyed using
the platform I went on the website and I saw that they had an internship
available it wasn't necessarily for my specific skillset but I emailed the
recruiter I kept up with them and I ended up working there for summer so it
can be done and there's no harm in asking especially if it's a company that
you're passionate about a field that you're interested in and you have skills
that can create value for the company in question if you're still struggling to
find an opportunity even after going through these different channels I would
consider doing some work on up work or a contracting website well you can still
charge a little bit of money you can demonstrate value to people or companies
on a contractor basis so you can practice forming your skills getting
real work experience and getting paid without the formalities of getting hired
to a company this is a really good option you can also check out my video
on how to get a data science interview in 2019 there I talked about some of the
key components of the resume of your personal brand that are really really
important to seeking out to recruiters and getting a foot in the door there are
links in the description below to all of the websites that I think are useful and
relevant as always I hope that this video was helpful to you and please let
me know in the comments section if you have any questions about where to start
your search or how to have the most success finding a career in data science
thank you so much and have a great one