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If I had to start over in 2027, here’s exactly what I’d do.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Learn Excel, Tableau & SQL

02:51 – Break the circle of doom

06:24 – Make your projects public

08:00 – Hack your resume and LinkedIn

11:09 – Take interview actions

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Vivek went from electrical engineer to senior data analyst, and networking is what got him there. Here’s the whole story.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – He got left on read for a year

02:42 – Why he left engineering

11:15 – Research engineer vs engineering analyst

20:27 – Luck you create yourself

26:21 – Senior analyst, fully remote

31:18 – His advice

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This is pretty much everything you need to know when landing your first data job. Comment what you’d like me to go deeper on. Hope it helps.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Why become a data analyst

03:48 – What to learn

07:50 – Get paid to learn on the job

12:10 – The formula to getting hired

13:30 – The SPN Method (skills, projects, network)

16:24 – Networking

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Watched an ex-Google analyst break down why AI hasn’t replaced data analysts. I show you where I agree and where I don’t.

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00:00 – AI didn’t kill the job

02:45 – Big Tech isn’t the real market

09:15 – The hype doesn’t match the data

16:45 – Where AI guessed wrong

19:03 – The analysts at risk

20:27 – What makes you irreplaceable

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Follow this free bootcamp to become a data analyst!

If you want extra help, consider The Accelerator: DataCareerJumpstart.com/daa

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Welcome to the Bootcamp

01:57 – How to Become a Data Analyst

25:51 – What Data Tools to Learn

34:15 – How to Get Paid To Learn

43:57 – Entry Level Data Jobs

54:33 – What Do Data Analysts Do?

1:05:09 – Data Analyst Salaries

1:24:36 – How to Get Every Data Tool

1:45:03 – Excel 101

2:24:45 – SQL 101

2:37:27 – SQL Project

2:43:48 – Data Storytelling

3:16:12 – Tableau 101

3:52:33 – Tableau Project

4:04:21 – Power BI Project

4:12:36 – Python 101

4:29:27 – Python Project

4:35:54 – R Project

4:41:54 – Current Job Market

4:52:09 – AI & The Future of Data

5:01:24 – Best Way to Find Jobs

5:09:57 – Update Your Resume

5:44:06 – Create a Portfolio

5:53:51 – How to Apply to Jobs

6:34:12 – Interview Practice

6:44:42 – How to Get Hired

6:57:27 – Next Steps

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Emily Oster is a Harvard trained economist who built a career on making decisions when the data is bad or missing. I asked her how she does it.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Let the decision lead the data

04:03 – Instagram isn't evidence

08:39 – What to do when there's no data

10:57 – Your family is a small business

14:33 – Right decision vs right process

30:21 – The New York test score error

39:00 – Rapid fire myths

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📚 Cribsheet: https://a.co/d/09rGjGjs

📚 The Family Firm: https://a.co/d/08RaAOBh

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I tested GPT-6 Astra on the one question I know best. It got the skills right and almost everything else wrong.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – GPT-6 Astra is here

02:15 – Excel and SQL first

07:45 – Start networking early

10:54 – Learn by doing

14:03 – The worst advice in the plan

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Former LinkedIn exec explains why mass applying with AI is getting you nowhere. I asked him what works instead.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – The AI arms race

04:33 – What are we solving for?

10:57 – Referrals were 10x in 2016

21:12 – Anyone can refer anyone

22:18 – Elevator pitch or questions?

36:36 – Is AI useless in the job search?

42:24 – Quality beats volume

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Mason went from teaching middle school choir to a financial analyst job at Humana in 40 days. I asked him how.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Choir teacher to Humana

09:03 – Teaching stopped working

12:33 – Go meet people

16:12 – Apply before you feel ready

20:06 – Fake it a little

24:30 – Get a referral

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These are the 10 things I wish I knew when I was starting out in data analytics.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – The title trap

01:00 – Lowest hanging fruit

02:09 – Domain is your superpower

03:15 – Stakeholders come first

04:18 – Why SQL wins

05:27 – Build it before you need it

07:06 – Getting paid to learn

08:24 – Nobody analyzes alone

09:33 – The remote reality check

12:18 – Imposter syndrome is normal

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Real recruiter spends 20 seconds on this resume and finds nothing worth keeping. I show you why.

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📺 Original resume review by Headless Headhunter 👉 https://youtu.be/iLjHV8VPzK8

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Eight months, zero interviews

08:45 – Make it scannable

09:45 – The formatting problem

12:09 – Your resume has two jobs

16:12 – How fast they give up

20:18 – Hiring managers aren't clueless

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Jorge was getting 12 rejections a day. I found out what he changed to turn it around.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Call centers to AI team

05:36 – Why he quit the Google cert

12:39 – The internal pivot

15:45 – 12 rejections a day

20:51 – Applied for a different job

25:30 – Networking on LinkedIn

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There's a lot of advice online on breaking into data. Here's what I'd tell a beginner.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – The Reddit post

01:09 – Companies interested in you

04:12 – Analysis is about money

07:00 – Bad tool advice

09:42 – My advice

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I looked at 11,000 data job postings to see how many required a certificate. Zero.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – They don't matter in industry

02:51 – Instructions, not problems

04:48 – A fake finish line

06:21 – The opportunity cost

07:54 – When a cert is worth it

08:21 – The SPN method

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David spent 13 years in architecture before switching to data. He landed his first data job in about 90 days.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – 13 years in architecture

06:00 – The internship

08:39 – Study on your own time

14:24 – Networking pays off

21:24 – Advice if you're on the fence

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I'll tell you the dark truth about AI as a data analyst that most people are completely ignoring.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – AI is fooling you

02:21 – The prices aren't real

05:18 – Why they'll go up

07:00 – The move going forward

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I did this analysis a year ago and a lot has changed. Here's what skills actually get you hired in 2026.

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00:00 – Introduction

00:48 – The numbers

07:00 – What to focus on

08:00 – Analyze this data yourself

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Kam was at Home Depot for five years with a sports management degree and zero data experience. Three months later he landed his first data job.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Sports management to data

04:03 – Tutorial hell is real

06:54 – How he found the job

16:54 – Domain knowledge wins

19:18 – Challenge yourself

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Anthropic just dropped their entire internal data playbook. Here's what they're doing and how it affects your career.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Anthropic dropped their data playbook

02:39 – Why AI analytics keeps failing

05:24 – How they hit 95% accuracy

09:24 – What a Claude skill is

14:39 – None of this is actually new

17:09 – Still hiring data people

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I analyzed thousands of data job applications. I'll show you the 26 things that work in today's market and the 6 I'd start with.

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⌚ TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Apply in the first hour

02:03 – Quantify every bullet

06:36 – Referrals beat everything

09:33 – Go hybrid not remote

11:24 – Never give the first salary number

13:27 – Track everything

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Mentioned in this episode:

Live "How to Become a Data Analyst" Webinar

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October Cohort of The Accelerator Starts on October 12th

Land your first data job ASAP with The Accelerator. And for this cohort only, get a discount PLUS our premium job board software PLUS our live AI workshops on how to analyze data Learn more here: https://datacareerjumpstart.com/daa

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