Careers in Analytics | Winter Break Resource Round-Up

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Are you constantly thinking about whether a career in Data/Business Analytics is a good fit for you? Do you spend countless hours researching current employment trends to keep up? This winter the weather in Boston might be getting colder, but your job search doesn’t have to! Check out this collection of articles and resources for candidates interested in analyst careers, they will definitely make you and your career preparation a few degrees warmer!

Yuxuan Zhang MSBA’24, CSE Career Captain

Winter Break Resource Round-Up for Careers in Data and Business Analytics

The CSE Technical Portfolio Visual Guide

Our featured resource for this round-up is the CSE Technical Portfolio Guide. This guide is designed to help you incorporate your coursework into an online technical portfolio, which serves as a sample collection to showcase your technical and organizational skills.

Top 10 Future Data Analytics Trends in 2023 

We learned that data analytics jobs still provide great security, but what trends are considered hot in this industry? According to this article by datasciencecentral, data analytics is in even more demand than ever, especially in forecasting. You can find out more about the following areas such as AI, NLP(Natural Language Processing), Data Governance, and their potential in the data realm.

Top 10 recession-proof data science skills

As we face the upcoming recession and large layoffs from companies, we also want to pay close attention to the skills that are recession proof and in high demand. Besides what we are learning in school, what other skills can we leverage in companies that are not easily replaceable? Check out this article by Edx for a quick read on how to become recession-proof in data skills.

6 Inspiring Examples Of Data Driven Companies Key Takeaways Included

Imagine you showed up to an interview for a tech company and you impressed the interviewer by researching the company’s current product line and services. Yes, we are talking about the importance of storytelling and knowing your potential employers from head to toe beforehand. This article by Unscrambl serves as a resource to learn how companies from various industries incorporate big data to innovate ahead. There are more companies out there, but you get the point!

Future of Business Analytics Trends in 2023 and Beyond

As we invest our time and energy into our education, we should also be attentive to the trend of business analytics in the near future to accommodate our career strategies. This article by SelectHub compiled a list of some of the top business analytics trends for the coming year and beyond.

A Complete Guide To Hiring A Data Analyst

Are you curious sometimes about how company HR managers make decisions on what candidates they select to join the company? Learning what criteria they are looking at helps us navigate and move accordingly. This article by Glider.ai is your beginner-level cheat sheet to understand the functionality and assessment of data analyst position from a recruiting lens.

7 Business Analyst Career Paths (With Qualifications and FAQs)

So you’ve taken the right classes and developed the relevant technical skills, what’s next? For a lot of us, we might start our careers as business analysts, but not everybody is going to stay in this career trajectory forever. Indeed’s career development blog provides perspectives on what doors are open to those of us with a background in business/data analytics.

The 2022 Winter Break Resource Round-Up Series has been brought to you by our CSE Career Captain Team. This Business/Data Analytics Careers Round-Up was written and curated by Yuxuan Zhang MSBA’24 as her first feature on the CSE Connect Blog!

By Yuxuan Zhang
Yuxuan Zhang Former CSE Career Captain