2 YOE DS at a small consultancy, 70+ applications, 0 responses. What am I doing wrong?
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| Hey folks, So I've been job hunting for about 2 months now and have sent out 70+ applications with literally zero responses. Not even a rejection from most of them. Took me a long search to land my current role too so the idea of going through that again is honestly stressing me out a lot. I work at a small analytics consultancy so my background is kind of all over the place depending on the client. Unsupervised learning, graph analytics, causal modelling, RAG systems, data pipelines. I've touched a lot of things but genuinely don't know if that reads as versatile or just unfocused on paper. Also have a research preprint co-authorship from an internship which I thought would help differentiate me a bit but apparently not lol Honestly the main goal is just to get out. WLB here is pretty rough and there's not much DS mentorship or structure to grow from. Just want to land somewhere with a proper DS team where I can actually learn and develop properly. My honest concerns:
What I'd love input on:
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