CV writing and skills gap analysis

A workshop for starting your Data & AI career

Are you a PhD researcher or Postdoc looking to move to the industry or a startup? Your CV looks too academic? Are you not being invited for interview?

To kickstart your career, we offer a CV workshop to achieve the following:

1. Structuring and writing your CV to maximize impact with readers in industry
2. Skills gap analysis for positions in Data Analytics, Data Science or AI
3. Ready-to-go strategy for moving on the labor market

With the workshop you are eligible to join 10,000 Data Scientists for Europe.

Participants

Any PhD seeking opportunities in Data Analytics, Data Science or Artificial Intelligence. Typically, you will have a numerate background — e.g. STEM, statistics, econometrics — and some experience with relevant programming languages like SQL, Matlab, Python or R.

Proof-of-concept

The workshop concept is based on

• >100 re-written CVs, and behind-the-scenes cooperation in getting candidates interviews
• Numerous requests to help with CV writing, emerging from the workshop series ‘Science to Data Science’
• A trial run of the essential elements with the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy on 04 May 2018 with 70 participants

The process

The process includes instructions on your CV structure, personal feedback on a first draft, skills gap analysis for employment, and personal feedback on a final draft.

1. Please use this link for instructions on how to provide a draft CV, preferably in LaTeX
2. Your CV draft is due 2 days before the workshop
3. During the workshop, personalized feedback and skills gap analysis is offered and time made to arrive at a final CV structure
4. In the week after, your personal CV is finalized for submission to companies and recruiters of your choice

Workshop Organization

Option 1

You organize locally a small workshop and recruit 10–12 participants, and we will provide the workshop free of charge as described in this post.

Option 2

You join individually one of our centrally organized workshops and together we will ensure that you complete the CV.

Your hosts

• Dr. Chris Armbruster is a Max Planck alumnus, and Director at Data Science Retreat, Berlin.
• Dr. Dina Deifallah is a Data Scientist. She has a track record in optimization algorithms and a PhD in communications engineering.
• Fahrnaz Jayrannejad is a Machine Learning engineer at the Konrad Zuse Institute obtaining a PhD in Bioinformatics from the FU Berlin.
• Dr. Tenzin Nyima is a Data Analyst. She is an expert in modelling datasets and handling the pipeline from preprocessing to results visualization. She holds a PhD in Biomolecular Sciences.

Organizer

The mission of 10,000 Data Scientists for Europe is finding and empowering talent in Data Analytics, Data Science & AI as rapidly as possible. If you are looking for a general introduction to the topic, check out the easy-to-read & mobile-friendly introduction on Medium.

Registration

Please register for a workshop via Eventbrite.

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