How I Went from Physics PhD to Data Scientist (Spoiler: Networking)
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- I talk about the job hunt I had last year following the completion of my Physics PhD at UC Irvine. It was a long process that finally resulted in me starting my current job 4 months following the end of my PhD. I discuss how I approached getting this job, some mistakes I made along the way, and ultimately how networking was the key factor in securing the position.
Resources Discussed in the Video:
Coursera Courses
Machine Learning Specialization: www.coursera.o...
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate:
www.coursera.o...
Books:
Hands-On Machine Learning: www.oreilly.co...
Ace the Data Science Interview:
www.acethedata...
I'm currently looking for an industry job and it's tough out here. I think your advice about knowing someone is probably what I need to actually get my resume read by an employer.
I can totally empathize with that. Obviously, I only have my own experience to go off of, but I seriously think the only people who read my resume were the people at my current job before they hired me. Jobs now receive dozens to hundreds of applicants, so they use a lot of AI filters to do a lot of the resume reading and getting rid of those that don't seem to closely align with the job description. One thing that started happening to me was feeling that I was unemployable and that I had wasted all those years for my degrees. Don't let that happen to you! You are very smart and talented, and unfortunately the way the world currently works makes that very difficult to get that across to potential employers!
This was super helpful, thanks for sharing Kyle! Just got my masters in Scientific Computation and Applied Math and beginning the job search is super stressful. I have been looking to break into the machine learning and data science field as well so I will definitely be taking a look at the resources you shared!
I'm glad to hear you found it useful! Best of luck with your own job search!
Did you not want a physics job?
I spent my PhD doing Astronomy/Astrophysics mostly, and I didn't really want to work in an observatory after graduate school. Also, based on my experience as an undergraduate where I did experimental condensed matter physics research, I didn't really enjoy the lab setting that much, so that was a no-go for me. And finally, I don't think I'm quite adept at calculations to be a theorist either, so *shrugs* a pure physics job didn't seem like the best route to go. I did enjoy the programming/data analysis/data modeling aspects of my PhD, so I wanted to do something that would take advantage of those skills I had developed.
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