• Practice talking about DataWorks
  • Language to use and how to make it compelling
  • Plan for mock interview with each other next time, and after that you can schedule with someone
  • How are things going:
    • Applied to any jobs? What kind? Have you met anyone to talk to about jobs?
    • Have you customized resumes and written cover letters?
    • What was in the cover letter?
    • Want to share your materials with me for review?
    • Have you been using Linkedin? where are you looking for the jobs?
    • Have you encountered any predatory activity or scams?
    • What questions do you have; what support do you need?
  • We can do mock interview select 1-2 questions; talk together about what are they looking for in answers; prepare answers for 5mins and pair interview
    • Tell me about yourself
    • Tell me about your last role
    • What are you looking for in a new role?
    • Why should we hire you?
    • Tell me about a time you faced a challenge at work and how you resolved it?
    • Describe a time when you went above and beyond your job responsibilities to help someone or improve a process
    • What are your salary expectations?
    • What do you consider your biggest professional achievement?
  • Plan next few sessions
  • Debrief after data breakfast club
  • Make sure career journal is set up
  • LinkedIn work time – connecting with people you met at breakfast club
  • Plan for when I’m gone
  • Publish blog post to linkedin and write one for Nicole’s
  • Email writing and scheduling, booking and emailing career chat speakers
  • Getting involved in research
  • Data breakfast club!! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiAp6RptR5jUJ9tnRRLA_EYZUdk7-JezMb1PTLJskyaHRp3g/viewform

Monday Session (4/22)

  • Reflect on Nicole’s career chat (record this)
  • Meet with Venise

Monday Session (4/08)

  • Update LinkedIn profile with pre-written title and description
  • Find people with a career you want to learn more about and look at their background, consider how they might have embellished it
    • If not sure of what titles to search, try these: project manager, data analyst, IT analyst, look at people who work at georgia tech, look at people’s connections you are connected to

Monday Session (3/12)

  • Selam Career Journal Show n Tell
  • Networking lecture
  • Connecting with people on LinkedIn
    • Connecting with career chat speakers, each other, and past Data Fellows – demo connect with note
  • Make sure everyone has added their details to the website bio form – if time, go through updating it

Monday Session (3/4)

Intro Day (2/29)

  • Career Chats
    • Reflection discussion
  • Overview of Career Dev (presentation)
    • Deliverables
    • Session structures
    • Review career paths after DataWorks
  • Start building your network NOW
    • Blindly applying to jobs is the least effective way to do it – the goal is to know people, and with time, you can get to know people
    • Network building resources:
  • Information Management – keep digital notes in one place
    • Can use OneNote, Evernote, Obsidian, Simplenote, or notebook and organized Word documents
  • Career Journal (Selam presents)