Data Career Podcast: Helping You Land a Data Analyst Job FAST

This is the story of how a math teacher transitioned to become a lead analytics consultant at Wells Fargo In this episode of The Data Career Podcast, Avery Smith sits down with Courtney Ballard, one of the bootcamp alumna on how she landed data job from teaching. If you are a Transitioning Teacher looking to explore data, I have a LIVE training to help you on your journey: https://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/teachers 🌟 Join the data project club! “25OFF” to get 25% off (first 50 members). 📊 Come to my next free “How to Land Your First Data Job” training 🏫 Check out my 10-week data analytics bootcamp Timestamps: (1:53) - Why Courtney transitioned to data analytics (9:54) - Why it's okay to pivot your career (13:22) - Teachers make great data analysts (17:44) - How Courtney landed her job (23:30) - Why data careers are great for teachers Courtney’s Links: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtneylballard/ Connect with Avery: 📺 Subscribe on YouTube 🎙Listen to My Podcast 👔 Connect with me on LinkedIn 📸 Instagram 🎵 TikTok Mentioned in this episode:🎉 The 2026 Cohort of The Data Analytics Accelerator 🎉 Ready to land your data job in 2025? We're starting the 2026 Cohort on January 5th. This bootcamp is everything you need to land your first data job. Check out our New Year's sale & bonuses: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daahttps://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/daa

Let's face it; data analytics can sometimes be a real pain in the spreadsheet. You spend hours analysing data, writing code, and crafting reports, only to have one mystery bug stop your work from progressing. I'll show you my 10-step guide for solving ANY data problem. 🌟 Join the data project club! “25OFF” to get 25% off (first 50 members). 📊 Come to my next free “How to Land Your First Data Job” training 🏫 Check out my 10-week data analytics bootcamp Timestamps: (2:19) - Step 1: Copy your error message (3:29) - Step 2: Use Google, Stack Overflow & ChatGPT (5:28) - Step 3: Double check everything! (6:58) - Step 4: Rubber Duck it! (7:58) - Step 5: Read manual & documentation (9:45) - Step 6: Walk away, just walk. (14:19) - Step 7: Turn it off! (12:52) - Step 8: Screenshot & screenrecord it (15:18) -Step 10: Say thank you! Connect with Avery: 📺 Subscribe on YouTube 🎙Listen to My Podcast 👔 Connect with me on LinkedIn 📸 Instagram 🎵 TikTok Mentioned in this episode:🎉 The 2026 Cohort of The Data Analytics Accelerator 🎉 Ready to land your data job in 2025? We're starting the 2026 Cohort on January 5th. This bootcamp is everything you need to land your first data job. Check out our New Year's sale & bonuses: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daahttps://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/daa

📤 In this episode, Avery’s going to walk you through how you can teach yourself SQL for FREE with this awesome 5-step course. 🌟 Join the data project club! “25OFF” to get 25% off (first 50 members). 📊 Come to my next free “How to Land Your First Data Job” training🏫 Check out my 10-week data analytics bootcamp Timestamps: (0:24) - What is SQL? (1:08) - Step 1: Download Datasets (2:03) - What is CSV files? (2:44) - Step 2: Setup SQL environment with the dataset (3:37) - Step 3: Learn SQL for free with W3Schools (4:50) - Step 4: Come up w/ probing questions for your data (6:09) - Step 5: Write up your findings (7:00) - Project Write-up Platform Mentioned Links: Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets bit.io: https://bit.io/ W3Schools: https://www.w3schools.com/sql/ Connect with Avery: 📺 Subscribe on YouTube 🎙Listen to My Podcast 👔 Connect with me on LinkedIn 📸 Instagram 🎵 TikTok Mentioned in this episode:🎉 The 2026 Cohort of The Data Analytics Accelerator 🎉 Ready to land your data job in 2025? We're starting the 2026 Cohort on January 5th. This bootcamp is everything you need to land your first data job. Check out our New Year's sale & bonuses: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daahttps://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/daa

In this episode, Avery & Jess dive deep into the world of data careers and discuss tips and tricks to network effectively, switch jobs, and stay focused on your career goals. 🌟 Join the data project club! “25OFF” to get 25% off (first 50 members). 📊 Come to my next free “How to Land Your First Data Job” training 🏫 Check out my 10-week data analytics bootcamp Timestamps: (8:01) - Difference between risk analyst & data analyst (9:56) - Does a math degree help in the data field? (12:52) - You hate your job. What do you do? (17:05) - It’s OK to job hop! (18:07) - The best time to switch job (20:06) - Not landing job opportunities? Do this! (22:44) - Learn less. Apply more. (25:15) - Know your data term to land the job! Jess Ramos Links: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessramosmsba/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessramosdata/ Linkedin Course: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/preparing-for-your-analytics-job-interview/data-analytics-from-initial-interest-to-job-interview Practical Advice for Perfecting the Data Resume: https://gumroad.com/a/51884243/vijuf Connect with Avery: 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AverySmithDataCareerJumpstart/videos 🎙Listen to My Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-career-podcast/id1547386535 👔 Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyjsmith/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacareerjumpstart/ 🎵 TikTok: [https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata](https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata?) Mentioned in this episode:🎉 The 2026 Cohort of The Data Analytics Accelerator 🎉 Ready to land your data job in 2025? We're starting the 2026 Cohort on January 5th. This bootcamp is everything you need to land your first data job. Check out our New Year's sale & bonuses: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daahttps://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/daa

The demand for data professionals continues to rise, and with this roadmap, you can break into the data field and kick-start your career in 2023. 📊 Come to my next free “How to Land Your First Data Job” training 🌟 Join the data project club! “25OFF” to get 25% off (first 50 members). 🏫 Check out my 10-week data analytics bootcamp Timestamps: (1:07) - Different background, different roadmap (3:18) - Ultimate roadmap to land your first data job (4:18) - You need these 3 skills to be marketable in data space (8:51) - Stop learning. Start applying (10:52) - Prove your skills by doing portfolio projects (12:25) - Network is your net worth (13:38) - This is how you grow your Linkedin network (16:00) - Do it scared, what’s the worst thing that could happen? Connect with Avery: 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AverySmithDataCareerJumpstart/videos 🎙Listen to My Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-career-podcast/id1547386535 👔 Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyjsmith/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacareerjumpstart/ 🎵 TikTok: [https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata?](https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata?) Mentioned in this episode:🎉 The 2026 Cohort of The Data Analytics Accelerator 🎉 Ready to land your data job in 2025? We're starting the 2026 Cohort on January 5th. This bootcamp is everything you need to land your first data job. Check out our New Year's sale & bonuses: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daahttps://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/daa

This is the story of how a warehouse worker pivoted into a senior data engineer in just 18 months while tripling her salary.   In this episode of The Data Career Podcast, Avery Smith sits down with Kedeisha Bryan on how she landed a data job and tripled her income in only 18 months. 🌟 Join the data project club! “25OFF” to get 25% off (first 50 members). 📊 Come to my next free “How to Land Your First Data Job” training 🏫 Check out my 10-week data analytics bootcamp Kedeisha’s Links: Connect on LinkedIn Join Data in Motion Community Timestamps: (9:19) - Why you need a sponsor in your life (11:21) - You need common ground to network genuinely (27:02) - Tired of sending job applications? Network instead (30:16) - Know that this is a long game Connect with Avery: 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AverySmithDataCareerJumpstart/videos 🎙Listen to My Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-career-podcast/id1547386535 👔 Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyjsmith/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacareerjumpstart/ 🎵 TikTok: [https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata?](https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata?) Mentioned in this episode:🎉 The 2026 Cohort of The Data Analytics Accelerator 🎉 Ready to land your data job in 2025? We're starting the 2026 Cohort on January 5th. This bootcamp is everything you need to land your first data job. Check out our New Year's sale & bonuses: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daahttps://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/daa

Stephen shared his incredible journey from tech support to a successful data analyst in only 3 months! Learn the key skills & strategies that helped him make the transition.📊 Come to my next free “How to Land Your First Data Job” training🏫 Check out my 10-week data analytics bootcampTimestamps:(10:16) Your personalized project is critical to landing a data job (11:23) You're missing out if you don't use the filter feature (14:17) Get your mentor and fix your resume! (17:29) It's hard to help you if you don't have a portfolio (23:33) Don't be afraid of the job ads requirement (36:15) Luck favors those who are preparedStephen’s Links: Connect on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentran96/Connect with Avery:📺 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AverySmithDataCareerJumpstart/videos🎙Listen to My Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-career-podcast/id1547386535👔 Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyjsmith/📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacareerjumpstart/🎵 TikTok: [https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata?](https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata?)Mentioned in this episode:🎉 The 2026 Cohort of The Data Analytics Accelerator 🎉 Ready to land your data job in 2025? We're starting the 2026 Cohort on January 5th. This bootcamp is everything you need to land your first data job. Check out our New Year's sale & bonuses: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daahttps://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/daa

You just learned SQL or Python, or Tableau. But you don’t know how to build your data science project? In this episode, Avery shares a 3-step guide to building your first data science project. 🌟 Join the data project club! “25OFF” to get 25% off (first 50 members). 📊 Come to my next free “How to Land Your First Data Job” training 🏫 Check out my 10-week data analytics bootcamp Timestamps: (1:28) - Art is theft, and so is the data science project (4:02) - Find ideas on Towards Data Science Medium (5:32) - Read a few articles to get inspiration (6:05) - Avery’s strategy is doing 30 projects in 30 days (9:08) - How academia finds inspiration to write (11:01) - Take Avery’s project, replicate and do it Mentioned Links: Building 30 Data Science Projects in 30 days: https://youtu.be/kKmA9ihIg20 30 Data Science Projects Resources: https://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/30projectsresourcesignup I Used Data Science to UNCOVER McDonald’s Healthiest Meal: https://youtu.be/3bbFc1225-4 Connect with Avery: 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AverySmithDataCareerJumpstart/videos 🎙Listen to My Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-career-podcast/id1547386535 👔 Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyjsmith/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacareerjumpstart/ 🎵 TikTok: [https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata?] Mentioned in this episode:🎉 The 2026 Cohort of The Data Analytics Accelerator 🎉 Ready to land your data job in 2025? We're starting the 2026 Cohort on January 5th. This bootcamp is everything you need to land your first data job. Check out our New Year's sale & bonuses: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daahttps://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/daa

Do you need to be active on Linkedin to land a data job? What should you post or even do on the platform? In this episode, Avery sits down with teacher turned Data Analyst Chris French to discuss how he landed his first data job leveraging Linkedin. 🌟 Join the data project club! “25OFF” to get 25% off (first 50 members). 📊 Come to my next free “How to Land Your First Data Job” training 🏫 Check out my 10-week data analytics bootcamp Chris’s Links: Connect on LinkedIn Timestamps: (9:07) - How Chris grow Linkedin from 20 followers to 20,000 followers (13:19) - His content types that gain attention (18:02) - What Chris would do differently to do the job search (23:29) - Technical skills vs soft skills (26:53) - Before land data job, analyze your process first Connect with Avery: 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AverySmithDataCareerJumpstart/videos 🎙Listen to My Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-career-podcast/id1547386535 👔 Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyjsmith/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacareerjumpstart/ 🎵 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata? Mentioned in this episode:🎉 The 2026 Cohort of The Data Analytics Accelerator 🎉 Ready to land your data job in 2025? We're starting the 2026 Cohort on January 5th. This bootcamp is everything you need to land your first data job. Check out our New Year's sale & bonuses: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daahttps://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/daa

You just got the data job offer. Should you accept it or not? In this episode, Avery discusses what pros and cons are there and deciding on accepting the job offer. 🌟 Join the data project club! “25OFF” to get 25% off (first 50 members). 📊 Come to my next free “How to Land Your First Data Job” training 🏫 Check out my 10-week data analytics bootcamp Timestamps: Timestamps: (0:58) - Jay got a data job offer but was in a dilemma (2:22) - Your past experience is ALWAYS relevant in the data world (2:59) - Job offer pros to look out (4:03) - Job offer cons to be aware of (5:57) - Avery takes on deciding job offer (7:53) - Job offer is beyond salary but perks & benefits Connect with Avery: 📺 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AverySmithDataCareerJumpstart/videos 🎙Listen to My Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/data-career-podcast/id1547386535 👔 Connect with me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/averyjsmith/ 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datacareerjumpstart/ 🎵 TikTok: [https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata?](https://www.tiktok.com/@verydata?) Mentioned in this episode:🎉 The 2026 Cohort of The Data Analytics Accelerator 🎉 Ready to land your data job in 2025? We're starting the 2026 Cohort on January 5th. This bootcamp is everything you need to land your first data job. Check out our New Year's sale & bonuses: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daahttps://www.datacareerjumpstart.com/daa