Send us a text Vicky Torres sent over 1,000 job applications in 12 months. She got four interviews—every one through referrals. Zero came from job boards. This wasn’t about weak credentials. Torres holds a B.S. in IT and an M.S. in Data Analytics, founded a women-in-tech org, and built real projects. What changed everything: she stopped playing by the old rules. Here's what actually got her hired: She stopped playing by the old rules entirely. Traditional job hunting advice tells you to polis...
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Send us a text Vicky Torres sent over 1,000 job applications in 12 months. She got four interviews—every one through referrals. Zero came from job boards. This wasn’t about weak credentials. Torres holds a B.S. in IT and an M.S. in Data Analytics, founded a women-in-tech org, and built real projects. What changed everything: she stopped playing by the old rules. Here's what actually got her hired: She stopped playing by the old rules entirely. Traditional job hunting advice tells you to polis...
Send us a text In this episode of the Data Career Academy Podcast, we sit down with Taqi Patrick—a public sector professional with 22 years of experience, decades of technical know-how, and a big goal: transitioning into a data analytics (and possibly data engineering) career before retirement. Taqi’s story is proof that you don’t need to be in a “data analyst” role to develop serious data skills. As an Unemployment Benefits Specialist, he’s spent years building advanced Excel and VBA automa...
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Send us a text Vicky Torres sent over 1,000 job applications in 12 months. She got four interviews—every one through referrals. Zero came from job boards. This wasn’t about weak credentials. Torres holds a B.S. in IT and an M.S. in Data Analytics, founded a women-in-tech org, and built real projects. What changed everything: she stopped playing by the old rules. Here's what actually got her hired: She stopped playing by the old rules entirely. Traditional job hunting advice tells you to polis...