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Resume Building and

Mock Interview
Session
ExcelR
Resume Building Tips
Guidelines / pointers while building an excellent resume:

 CV (2-3 pages) and resume (1 page summary)


 picture - friendly, professional picture (not a necessity)
 Essentials : email id, phone number, link of LinkedIn Profile, summary (data science
proficiency oriented)
 Summary e.g. : Aspiring data scientist with proficiency in predictive modeling, SQL,
python, PowerBI, Tableau, data processing, data mining techniques, statistics.

Websites :
 www.resume.com
 https://novoresume.com

 sample resume :
https://novoresume.com/career-blog/data-scientist-resume
Resume Building Tips
 Extras but good to have : Kaggle profile, Github profile
Links :
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrhPjE7wHas
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_4NJCjAJFE
Skills :
 Language & tools : Python, SQL, Tableau/ PowerBI
 Data science skills : data processing, data mining, ML algorithms, classification and regression algorithms, GBM, XGBoost,
random forest

 Certifications

 Experience (professional background, internships)

 Projects : business need, how did you solve it using data science techniques, conclusion on how you helped the business

 Educational background

 Interests (not a necessity)


Resources
 Python - pandas, data manipulation, numpy, plotting, scikit-learn (Kaggle,
towardsdatascience), Mode Analytics
 SQL for data analysis - mode analytics, LeetCode, StrataScratch
 Tableau Desktop - tutorials - 14 days free
 PowerBI (microsoft) - tutorials - free
 R - lot of resources online - r-bloggers, mode analytics
Different profiles in market
6 different profiles based on how data is collected, managed, processed, manipulated
and represented :

 data engineer (big data)

 data analyst/ business analyst / tableau developer / business intelligence analyst


(works on historical data)

 data scientist / decision scientist (everything that a data analyst does + predictive
modeling)

 ML engineer (deployment of ml models)

 NLP engineer (textual data)

 Deep Learning engineer (sound, images)


Mock interview Topics
 Introduction / what made you interested in data science?/ explaining any gaps
or previous experience
 projects
 scenario based questions on data science (data science project pipeline) / case
studies
 SQL : w3schools, mode analytics https://mode.com/sql-tutorial/
 Python
 statistics
 ML algorithms (supervised and unsupervised)
Mock interview Topics
Blogs :
 Towardsdatascience / machinelearningmastery / analytics india magazine /
analytics vidya / ML India

How to prepare :
 List all the topics. Read it and practice it from multiple blogs/forums. Crisp
answers.
 Domains & Business Problems : Pharma (new drug launch, drug performance),
Retail : (product placement, market basket analysis)
 Generic business Objectives : increase the sales, customer satisfaction, customer
retention, customer loyalty, customer attrition, customer segmentation, pricing
the products, product affinity
Job Portals
Applying for jobs / Job portals (in order of priority) :

 Support from ExcelR

 Referrals

 LinkedIn profile : profile summary, open to work, certifications, professional profile


picture, projects (2-3 lines)

 LinkedIn connections : while sending connection request - add profile summary in


note (including Skillsets)

 Naukri - keep updating it in every 2-3 days (it shows it as recently active). Summary
section (profile summary mainly must look catchy, mention skillsets)

 Career section/email of different companies (especially startups)

 LinkedIn Jobs
Job Portals
 Facebook groups (search for such groups : analytics opportunities, data science,
jobs, opportunities): https://www.facebook.com/groups/Analytics.Opportunities

 InstaHyre

 Angellist (https://angel.co/)

 Hirect App

 Blind

 Indeed / hire / monster / IIT IIM jobs


Mock Interview Topics and Questions
 Additional questions to those already in LMS.

 Introduction

 Projects and data science understanding

 explanation of projects completed

Business case studies :


 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-cracking-business-case-
interviews-for-data-scientists-part-1-cb768c37edf4
 https://towardsdatascience.com/tagged/case-study
 https://data-flair.training/blogs/data-science-case-studies/
 https://bigdata-madesimple.com/6-of-my-favorite-case-studies-in-data-science/
Mock Interview Topics and Questions
Data science scenario based questions / general data science techniques
 credit card fraud prediction model

 what are steps involved in data science project? What is EDA? Missing values, outlier
treatment, univariate bivariate analysis, checking correlation

 What is feature engineering? Types?

 What is overfitting and underfitting and how to remove it?

 What is variance, bias, variance-bias tradeoff?

Communication Skills
 Should be at least intermediate

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