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Analyst Jobs¶

  • Start and company might pay you to learn

  • Lean Slack (the default chat app for collaboration remotely)

  • Know how to use Slack, Zoom, Notion

  • Create cool projects that are niche (it is competitive)

  • It's competitive and many companies are asking their workers to come back to work.

Interview Questions¶

  • What's your productivity method? How have you struggled with remote work and overcome it?
  • How do you manage a meeting that's in a different time zone?
  • How do you set up your environment for remote work?
  • How do you stay motivated and avoid distractions?

Getting a Job¶

  • Job aggregator websits are often scams or useless. Jobs are posted for superficial reasons. Most hiring happens in-house.
  • Best to network with people!

Blog post (show your passion)¶

  • write about projects you did
  • challenges you faced, successes, objectives
  • Process (how you did it)
  • Having 10 projects with 10 blog posts is better than having 100 projects and no blog posts.

Risks¶

  • Know about pay scams? bounced checks, etc.
  • Don't do unpaid trials?

Data Analyst Jobs¶

Breaking into the market¶

  • Find a company with a lot of data that needs a volunteer data analyst to offer 30 days of free data analytics

Entry level data jobs (that are much easier to enter into than data analyst role)¶

  • Data specialist
  • Data clerk
  • Data coordinator
  • Data steward
  • Data assistant
  • Data entry

Time Management Tip¶

  • Establishing expectations about communication is critical to establish up front
  • It may take up to 24 hours to respond.

Kinds of Remote Work¶

  1. Synchronous remote work - work at office hours, real-time collaboration, set work hours, in messaging app at all times, people can monitor your progress, (e.g., customer support)
  2. Asynchronous remote work - work at own schedule