Data Career Podcast: Helping You Land a Data Analyst Job FAST 44: From a Teacher to a Data Analyst w/ Chris French
Do you need to be active on Linkedin to land a data job? What should you post or even do on the platform?
In this episode, Avery sits down with teacher turned Data Analyst Chris French to discuss how he landed his first data job leveraging Linkedin.
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Timestamps:
(9:07) - How Chris grow Linkedin from 20 followers to 20,000 followers
(13:19) - His content types that gain attention
(18:02) - What Chris would do differently to do the job search
(23:29) - Technical skills vs soft skills
(26:53) - Before land data job, analyze your process first
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