Acing Your Analytics Career Transition (Analytics @ Work) by Piyanka Jain

Author:Piyanka Jain
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Piyanka Jain
Published: 2016-09-14T07:00:00+00:00

8 tips for making a strong analytics resume

Tell one story. Your resume should tell the story of you as an analyst. Granted, you are transitioning your career to analytics from, let’s say, being a developer. But your resume should not read like a developer-turned-analyst. Paint one clear, coherent picture of your strengths as an analyst; everything else needs to fold under and support your analyst story. It’s a matter of what you highlight and what you don’t, while maintaining accuracy. Leverage your past experience to show your expertise in driving ROI or business knowledge, while staying true to your analyst story. You’re not coming with a clean slate—this isn’t your first job —so think about ways your resume can show the value your work history brings to the functional requirements of the role.

So what? Don’t list your projects; list the impact of your projects with numbers and provide context so the reader cares. Instead of writing “Did A/B testing on the homepage to understand drivers of login”, tell the reader you “Drove incremental revenue of $5M by testing variants on homepage that resulted in higher login.” Note how much stronger is the latter rendition. If you don’t know the actual impact of your work, do a guesstimate and describe it as potential revenue gain. And going forward, always calculate the potential impact of the project before engaging in any assignment. Use the Sizing/Estimation technique from the hands-on business analytics course.

Create an 8-second resume. Your resume should tell your story in 8 seconds. That’s about the time I as a hiring manager spend looking at any given resume to decide which pile it goes into: yea or nay. Here is how to tell your story in 8 seconds: i. Use a Request for Quote (RFQ) format where you list job requirements in the left column and your own experience in the right to demonstrate how you fit the role. Voilà! The hiring manager or recruiter needs only 8 seconds to decide if you meet the job requirements. Here is an example.

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