Why EVERYONE Is Struggling to Become a Data Analyst 

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That part 👏🏾 Employers no longer want to take the time to train new hires. It

True. This will hurt companies in the long run. Back in the day almost every company had an onboarding training program/ process where they trained you in their technology or what you would end up doing in the job. They dont do that anymore and expect you to know everything before they hire you. This is unrealistic and will be one of the things that one day destroys many companies and the job market economy.

then how an entry level fresher become the trained data analyst?

@@ai_sikandar lying

This is the case in all industries.

😂😂

Or a sex worker💀💀

The navy recruiter I talked to damn near convinced me to stop taking antidepressants and get my braces taken out so I could do cyber security for them. The fact I'm actually considering it when I'm just a freshman in college 😅😅

no silly, getting blown up is not stable

A professional singer like Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley is a very stable career

Great work bro, one question how did you learn coding so quickly?

The reason: AI

@@Mememaxing Basic programming/algorithm courses and intro to databases are already part of my degree, and we use plenty of java, python and R in the advance ML and statistics classes, so coding isn’t really a problem. I did take a week to practice sample coding interview problems online before the coding interview. There were definitely a lot of new things to pick up during the first couple of years on the job. AWS services, containers, and new web frameworks. Also JS as a new language. But it was alright.

@@juliocesargarcia7218 Nah, my company mainly deals with app and web development. Since ChatGPT came out I’ve only been using it to generate mock JSON data for testing code. Really don’t see much application of AI to our processes at this time.

why u need help ? U doing great SD job and and according to you it pays well and you also loved it 😂

Hey can i contact you somehow?? I've recently graduated with a degree in Geography as well and right i want to get into the Data field. Need your advice. Will be waiting for your response.

@@mewappleby2292 I got in contact with a researcher in climatology and he got me to write programs (in FORTRAN, back then!) to quality-check and do statistical analysis of climatological series. I actually worked 5 years in a succession of smaller contracts for that researcher's lab (France's CNRS) before eventually branching out, once these contracts ran out.

how's the job market in calgary?.

@@mpo2476 Usual ebb and flow driven by oil and gas prices. Boomed last year when both oil and nat.gas were expensive, now in a bit of a downturn with still high oil prices, but low gas prices.

Lol you turned to the dark side based

Glad it was helpful!

What design industry? Like CAD modelling? I work as a 3D artist currently

​@@lavatr8322 Mostly Graphic Design early on. Which evidentially exercises UI UX Design (mostly UI). Print and digital marketing, branding, Style Guides, social, packaging, EDMs, catalogues, some video editing and photography, you name it I've done it. Last 3 years, I'm heavy on Software, app and website design, officially a UI UX Designer, predominately UI design. Current job requires lots of reporting, Power BI, etc. ;) how I stumbled on this.

​@@lavatr8322 Just curious. What are your major industries that have been using your 3D skills? Is it real-estate? Are there enough job opportunities? I used to design for fun in Cinema4D :P My little brother finished a 3D bachelor few years ago but ended up being a coder. I think mostly because my father got him a prime data administrator position, and is coaching him through it. Not sure.

These companies are usually toxic and their retention of employees is poor. I know bunch of people who great at sales but dread taking any role in sales and marketing.

Honestly speaking in Kerala all the youths are preparing for GMAT and IELTS and leaving this place because there is no job opportunity

@@CasperFiles1969 This. I took my first "Data Analyst" job about 4 months ago and while there is _some_ of that, the vast majority of what I actually need to do has nothing to do with data analysis and it's no wonder why the person before me quit so abruptly or why the other analyst confessed to me that she burned out before putting her notice in. I have to take on her tasks while they look for yet another person which, surprise, have nothing to do with data analysis.

In my country it's worse, they've always called those who sell financial products as "financial analysts" or something related to analysis

This is so true

and im in canada in case anyone is wondering. id be royally fucked if i was in usa with anything less than 50k xD

I was just thinking you cannot possibly live in the US. I make 42k but, that is NOT enough to live by myself with😭😭. I’m thinking about getting into healthcare analytics

Try Finance analytics

You should consider applying your skills to another sector like law. You’ll have very little competition.

@@thelegalengineer Law is not that simple. I’m not sure where you heard it was, but it’s not.

Can you tell us more about your journey sir?

Great job!

I'm a univeristy student and I'm curious about your internship stories!

hi friend can you please help me

Were you a student at the time you got the internships or no? Most internships require you a student going to school, also were these internships paid or no?

When applying for my first job I downloaded a program that automatically filled in most applications. Applying for a hundred jobs took about an hour. The program used was Dashlane.

@@JakoWakoWhat's the name of this program please?

@@bradpittman3821 Dashlane, although there may be better programs nowadays. Best of luck with the interviews!

@@JakoWako how did you do that

@@fernz1361 The program was called Dashlane

I have been doing the same. But most data analyst posts require experience. Just need to keep grinder

In the U.K., the best starter jobs for a ‘data analyst’ are not called that - especially in healthcare.

@@snackplaylove what are they called then lol..

@@twosides2504 This is the trick, different jobs have different titles for the same thing. I'm trying to break into the game industry yet the entry job Game QA/Tester has so many various titles I can't just punch one title into to google and find them all. The graft is finding the jobs first.

Hey Im on a same path...wanna join??? So we can improve together

You're not alone my friend. I've been in this journey for almost one year now and I'm really thinking about a plan B and start to look at other jobs in the tech industry

I'd recommend finding a way to implement what you learn into the job you have, and grow In that role. Find ways to show off your skills and prove its usefulness.

You should consider applying your skills to another sector like law. You’ll have very little competition.

@@fabifernandes2024 Same here. I regret choosing this career path

I would be cautious about choosing a career which has a realistic chance of being obsoleted by AI in the near future. Unless you plan to rise above and be exceptional at your job, this path is looking like a dead-end.

Example: A healthcare/hospital wants someone to run an analysis on quality of patient care. A doctor/ nurse / CDIS expert with coding will do it without asking what you are talking about. The already know the parameters needed, and what dependent/independent variables to compare, and they will run tables/ charts and tests significance. The information is already in healthcare charting app like Epic. That's it. You have results and a report in a single day. It's not just about numbers!

If state or government jobs, you have to show at least 15 units of that skill in your degree and if postgraduate, must be a degree of more than 1 year duration in Masters.

Nope, less than 10. Because not all will have the necessary skillset.

80+ hours for a project? You are committed!

@@connorcook64845 I come up with a scenario in which a business/organization might want to have the insights from data to help them achieve an objective. My current project is looking at snowfall and depth trends over the past 50 years. Though it is investigating snow fall trends based on weather patterns caused by surface sea temperatures, I am also attempting to predict future snowfall/depths. I could spend several more hours trying to find the best prediction model, but I figure that would be overkill for a portfolio project in which I'm simply trying to land my first Data Analyst role. I figure once I land my first role, I can dive into more challenging topics more related to Data Science and or Data Engineering.

what do you do for a living, just asking please don't be offended

@@ogheneovovictor9961 im a truck driver and im thinking about going into tech, the problem is I already make good money 120k a year so Im wondering if tech is even worth it at this point

The world is so fucked up that many people would dream of making a living just by analyzing data, even if it seems "boring."

Brother, any job you do is "for a corporation" in some capacity. Unless you're completely independent and self-employed, I'm sure the same could be said for your job.

I had that same question too!

Some organizations do not label the job correctly. Power bi is Power bi whether it's a developer of reports or a bi consultant.

You should consider applying your skills to another sector like law. You’ll have very little competition.

this is very scary. thanks for sharing the first hand experience.

Apply to job titles in other industries like financial analyst, marketing analyst, healthcare analyst, etc.

Did you do any internships in schoo

What is the company name if you dont mind or atleast what is your current position

@@vincebandgogh I am at the wherehouse at Amazon moving to the IT support roll in 2 months after I finish my certification then will work while being a full time student. They offer tuition payments to all employees after a certain amount of time. There are around 20 people I currently work with that are doing the same thing for various degrees, it’s just that most people don’t want to have to go back to school and work.

The cheat code for us no degree people is the tuition assistance. I am going for my degree and CISSP now at 41. It's gonna help me climb higher because I am already 20+ years in. Much harder for those just coming out of school and trying to get into the work force AND they took on the debt.

@@ryox82 smart play, I told my kids who are in college now that if it’s possible try and find an employer that will foot the bill or help out a lot. I know there are several companies that will pay for tuition up front I think Boeing is another that will do that.

So are you gonna keep crying about the bad employers? Grow up, if it was the scene with everyone why would freshers be still get jobs.

@@ScarletBitch29 I don't know, maybe they like people who like you who lack integrity and go by names like scarletbitch on the internet more than people who actually work hard. Maybe they are afraid of being replaced by people who know new tech, maybe the sunshine isn't so bright in their eyes and they just love people they can take advantage of so they can make their lives actually mean something out of a superiority complex. You should ask them and find out. I literally had a job interview where I suggested that this balding little shit almost 60 look at my portfolio before he kept talking shit about me, didn't even let me prove myself, and the cheeky ass clown literally said "no I'm not going to do that" to me to my face. You don't know the world, and judging by your decision to scold me on the matter you also haven't aged enough either.

@@ScarletBitch29 In my country rarely any fresher is getting job. Those who are getting job are paid 2-5 times less than those who have little experience.

What if HR is just another human being, without deep knowledge in technology, also trying to find the best fit for their company in order to alleviate a little bit the burden they are also carrying from their side? If you see them as enemies, it’s you putting the conflict in that relationship.

@@SchvarczFranco Your comment makes sense only if HR's actually focus on hiring skilled candidates mostly, instead of focusing upon candidates with skills & other factors. HR's don't just hire candidates based on their skills & ability to do the job, they hire candidate who also have relevant educational background, work experience and no gap year. They do this to easily explain their managers why they hired this particular candidate. If the employee they hired doesn't work efficiently, then the blame won't come on HR as they didn't just see the candidates skills, but also their work experience & relevant educational background while hiring.

Those skills have low value unless coupled with business knowledge...

​@@dallysinghson5569The business knowledge aspect in a data scientist is used mainly in their "question they are trying to solve" and is reflected on when they write their reports. I thinking learning some business knowledge on the job is a given for most white collar jobs.

You need a masters. Bachelors is no longer competitive these days

It is bs I graduated in 2018 with the exact same skillset and was applying to 100s of jobs and had to move across the country for my first role. The fact is though you can wallow in your despair or use it as fuel to build better projects, learn more skills and develop a killer project portfolio. Whether you spend your energy being productive or playing games youll still be miserable but one is going to put you ahead along the axis of time. Dont give up and keep trying, keep working hard every day and building projects and in 6-12 months you will have a job or at the very least be an expert in a few more skills. You can spin up an AWS server online, data.gov has large government datasets. Build a data enginerring pipeline to get it into an AWS server and run some analysis. Find large websites with APIs for their data and stream a pipeline into your aws or sql database and then automatically update your analytics dashboards and models from it. This is something you can do in 6-12 months if youre smart and you can easily be at a senior+ level by then.

Exactly. They’ll constantly hire and fire Analysts and Practitioners; but DevOps and MLOps are much more stable.

You should consider applying your skills to another sector like law. You’ll have very little competition.

​@@thelegalengineerare you kidding me? how does that work?

@@connorcook64845 Lots of law firms have big budgets reserved for software development. You can either work full time or free lance for them. Alternatively you can work for lawtech companies that develop software for lawyers. I know plenty of lawyers in my network that are hiring for software engineers

You dont need a degree in Nursing, social work, and computer science for UX Design. Those are completely different fields

@@kolyxix How else am I too get a job in the field? Nursing for communication and understanding people, social sciences for keeping an open mind and understanding people, computer science for tools such as Figma, adobe and communicating with developers. What else is there to do?

@@finnj3976 lol, ahahh. You dont need to be nursing degree and social sciencr to understand people, you only gonna be taking on student loans. But if taking on loans and student is cool with you, then go for it.

Thanks for watching!

Its joever

how did it go

@solace6168 it went great! I was really nervous cause I'm still learning SQL so I thought they would hit me with more SQL assessments. Instead, it was a behavioral interview and also a "get to know you" thing like in a first date. So I'm going to have to wait to hear from them regarding getting to the 2nd stage of interview. Which is good for me so I can practice, especially I can finish my Snowflake certification, which really will help me stand out and be more confident

@@countmindloshow long have you been at it?

@him4440 going into my 4th month of Data now. But prior to that, I was doing software engineering since last year December.

You should consider applying your skills to another sector like law. You’ll have very little competition.

I’d say yes bc even though AI can do it, it still makes mistakes. In order to draw insights from data, you need to validate that all the analysis and calculations are correct. AI is prone to make wrong inferences from small mistakes that could be corrected with a data professional overseeing it.

I appreciate your input, thanks for the reply!

Not really. The contractors running specific and flexible AI Apps (individually owned by these contractors and patented) will take over the jobs. This is becoming an every day norm in the healthcare. Outsourcing had become normal for data analysis and revenue cycle. Big ones are like Optum, but there is a presence of small, localized one sprouting everywhere.

@@petermwangi2032 wdym healthcare?

You should consider applying your skills to another sector like law. You’ll have very little competition.

That's crazy

that's because IT people are oversaturated in India

the same for Indonesia

You could just do it as part of your continuing self improvement and APPLY the new skills as you learn them. Would certainly help as you interview in the confidence department. I am a manager now. I am not a developer at all, but would be pretty cool to create a python script to help with home brewing Identity and Access solutions and having that under my belt.

You should consider applying your skills to another sector like law. You’ll have very little competition.

You can do it!!

That's the downside of online certifications. And here in my country no one gives a shite about certifications. Especially online. And not even via offline private institutions. It's very hard here to even land that first internship opportunity

That's interesting. Where are you located?

Not necessarily, depends on your qualifications.

Right but how does one get the work experience needed to prove you can do the job, if you can’t get the job that gives you the work experience?!

True! It's important that beginners are given a chance.

If the company decide to hire an AI Engineer to create an automatic template for each of analytical report and give feedback based on data history, so yes the task can be done by AI.

AI can help the developers in doing small tasks like coding, arranging, etc. Only humans can make it to the full potential, btw you can't give data to AI as you have to maintain the privacy of it.

Very true

Its good when you invest 5-8 years on it and become Senior (Lvl 3) or Consultant/Lead (Lvl 4) titles and make over 100k annual working from home with company paid laptop, monitors, and wifi. Principal Lead Lvl 5 is 150k. Lvl4 is equivalent to a manager lvl pay and Lvl 5 is senior manager, but need not to babysit people but babysit projects and system processes.

Nah, AI will take over