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Funding your AI Startup – 6 Pitch Writing Guidelines to Consider

Career Insights Featured Post Startupsposted by Melanie Sovann October 18, 2019

In terms of disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence (AI) has provided numerous industries with transformative innovations. Whether it’s finance, healthcare or retail, AI technologies have found their place in day-to-day operations across the global market. According to Forbes, 59% of organizations worldwide have deployed some form of AI already and... Read more

Can Skills Assessments Help Avoid False Negatives in Tech Recruitment?

Accelerate AI Career Insights Hiringposted by Matt Cowell October 17, 2019

In Part 2 of our series on skills assessments, we’re looking at the issue of false negatives in tech and data talent recruitment and what roles skills assessments play. We cover why false negatives really do matter in tech recruiting, what drives this type of hiring error and what can be... Read more

4 Ways Data Scientists Are Marketing Themselves Incorrectly

Career Insights Featured Postposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 14, 2019

You’re looking for your next big job, but every time you apply to a position, it’s crickets. You’ve got the background and the training. Your GitHub profile is filled out, and you’ve done your hackathons. The field has a talent demand, but if you’re making these mistakes, you may... Read more

Transitioning from Academia to Business? 3 Things to Keep in Mind

Accelerate AI Career Insightsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 7, 2019

Congratulations! You’ve gotten your first job in Data Science in the business sector. Whether you’re fresh out of school or coming from a distinguished career in academia, you’re transitioning from academia to business — you feel ready to make an impact in your company. [Related Article: 3 Unique Ways... Read more

How Not to Get Started in Data Science

Career Insights Career Data Science Jobsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 2, 2019

Data science is a hot field, but some job seekers are having a hard time getting a foot in the door. Job posters are citing mismatches in skills needed on the job and the skills potential job seekers have. If you play your cards right, you could turn this... Read more

Making the Move from Data Science to Data Leadership

Career Insights Featured Postposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC October 1, 2019

Businesses don’t know what to do with their data. It’s a brave new world out there with the potential to derail even the most earnest data science initiatives, so businesses are getting smart. They’re hiring data science leadership, not just data scientists, and you could be part of this... Read more

How To Stay Busy While Looking for a Data Science Job

Career Insights Conferences Career data science job data science job postingposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 24, 2019

Just because you’re in-between jobs or looking for your first data science job doesn’t mean you get to sit around watching television and eating chips. Okay, there’s a little of that, but keeping up to date with what’s happening in the data science world as you search for your... Read more

What Businesses Should Know About Speech Technologies

Accelerate AI Career Insights Conferences Modeling NLP/Text Analytics Business language processing NLP speech technologyposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 23, 2019

One of the top workshops at ODSC West last year (2018) was a talk by Omar Tawakol, the founder of Voicea. His company created a voice assistant that transformed meetings by handling lower order tasks like note-taking. Cisco acquired Voicea, most likely to integrate it into Webex as part... Read more

3 Things That Look as Good as Experience on a Data Science Resume

Career Insights data science career data science resume Jobsposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 17, 2019

So you need a job in data science, but you don’t have company experience. It’s a Catch-22. You have to get hired to get experience, but you can’t get hired without the experience. Getting over that hurdle means getting a little creative and applying other factors to your data... Read more

How to Convince Your Boss It’s Time to Expand Your Data Science Team

Accelerate AI Career Insights Featured Post Businessposted by Elizabeth Wallace, ODSC September 16, 2019

Tell me if this sounds familiar. Your job description includes data science and data visualization. You’re the go-to expert for building the architecture and the point person when something goes haywire. You’re expected to make sense of the data lake and ensure it’s labeled correctly. Plus, they need you... Read more