From the course: Future Proofing Your Data Science Career

Three tools to navigate your career(s)

From the course: Future Proofing Your Data Science Career

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Three tools to navigate your career(s)

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- The Future Career Toolkit is based on how I successfully navigated eight careers since graduating from college. Yes, eight. I developed these tools by analyzing the processes I'd use to navigate these multiple career changes and then codifying common elements that I had applied over and over again. The process always started with my own curiosity about what the next opportunity might be based on my own interests. I also had to objectively assess, each time, what skills I had that were transferable as well as what the gap was, what I'd need to learn in order to move to my next career. With the Future Career Toolkit I focus on three main areas that I call voice, antenna, and mesh. These tools will give you a set of tactical, repeatable processes that you can use to proactively future proof your evolving data science career. Let me explain what each one is. Voice enables you to clearly identify your own individual qualities, your personal brand writ large if you will, your own unique value proposition, what it is that you bring to the global data science job marketplace. Antenna provides you with a framework for tracking down where relevant future-focused conversations are going on in the fields you're interested in, areas where you have strengths and passion based on your voice findings. Mesh formalizes the process for tracking down the actual people in organizations where innovation in data science is taking place. Connecting with them and participating in their conversations will enable you to identify your next opportunity and navigate a multimodal data science career path. As the global job landscape morphs and evolves, which it will, the Future Career Toolkit provides data scientists with a concrete methodology for identifying and pursuing opportunities. Using voice, antenna, and mesh data scientists can proactively find their next job and the ones after that.

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