Productivity Tips For Your Job Search

Dear Data Scientists,

Balancing your job search with your current work, social life and exercise routine can be tough.

It’s why you need to make the most of your limited time.

Else you’ll get used to refreshing your emails, desperately waiting to get a callback…

But if you want to get the coveted ‘Congratulations!’ email, you need to use your time wisely.

Here’s some tips to make the most of your time:

1) Parkinson’s Law

If you give yourself 30 mins to write your CV, it’ll take 30 mins.

If you give yourself 1 hour to write your CV, it’ll take 1 hour.

If you give yourself 2 hours to write your CV…

You catch my drift.

Set more ambitious deadlines to complete more work.

2) Plan Ahead

Parkinson’s law works best when you make a plan of what you need to complete each day/week.

Once you’ve completed your tasks, you can take some well-earnt rest.

3) High-Leverage Tasks

Using a Parkinson’s law and having a plan is useful…

But only if you’re working on the right tasks.

Spamming another application, trying a new certificate or ‘networking’ won’t work if you’ve got your fundamentals wrong.

You need to work on the tasks which have the biggest effect on finding a job.

It can be hard choosing the high-leverage tasks if you’re going through your job search by yourself: you never get any feedback.

So if you want some help progressing your Data Science Career?

And finding a higher-paying job with more rewarding work?

My mentorship program The Confident Data Scientist helps you do that.

I’ve got one spot left, but that’s probably going to be taken by the end of the week…

So If you’re interested in the program, reply ‘Confident Data Scientist’ and we can figure something out.

Until next time (and God Bless)

Albert