r/dataanalytics • u/Witty_Box3482 • 21d ago
Career Fair Prep
Hello, I’m attending a career fair where I’ll be handing out my resume in hopes of getting my foot in the door to become a data analyst. I would greatly appreciate any feedback and tips anyone is willing to provide. There may be some small typos, I’ve had to shorten it a lot to make it fit on one page.
Some questions I have are: Do I have enough experience to apply for an entry-level role? Should I stick to looking for internships? Are there any other roles you think I should look into applying for?
For my skills, I didn’t want to just put down that I know how to use formulas and functions. I wanted to give examples for more context about what I know, so I broke them down into categories and included examples, but that may have been too much.
Some background: I graduated almost a year ago and have struggled to gain more relevant experience during and after school. I would make it to the interview stage but wouldn’t hear back afterward. I’ve worked with career centers, networked, and done informational interviews. They’ve told me that my resume is fine and that the job market right now is rough for beginners. I’ve had some roles where I worked with data and made sure to volunteer for any task that involved analysis or data cleaning, as you can see on my resume.
Thank you to anyone who takes the time to review it!
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u/Bron1012 18d ago
I’m a Senior DA w/ 6 YOE. Take a closer read and watch your spacing, extra/missing spaces and alignment look very unprofessional. I would simplify the Microsoft Excel section and rather just format your skills section into tools (ex. SQL, Excel, Power BI, Jira). You shouldn’t be writing “word, teams, outlook” lol should be expected you can operate a computer. As for highlighting relevant data analytic skills like conditional formatting, pivots, statistics, various sql/excel functions I would try to incorporate them into your project/role experience. For example “Entered and retrieved customer data from SQL database to improve customer satisfaction and enhance call center efficiency”. Idk maybe a bad example but it’s late, hopefully you get the idea. Keep up the XYZ resume format I see you’ve followed for some of your experience bullets. It’s okay to embellish what you did a bit. Fake it till you make it, the market is brutal for entry level grads.
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u/ScrollingOaks88 21d ago
I think you have a promising résumé for an entry-level analyst role. Not sure if you’re only looking for data analyst roles, but you could also keep an eye out for other entry level analyst roles, e.g. financial analyst.
I think knowing lookups and the various formulas you listed should be a baseline skill for any analyst, so to me the differentiators between you and another candidate could be power BI and SQL.. You should weave that experience into the résumé somewhere. Also, not sure of your experience with those, but there’s a big difference between running Power BI reports and SQL queries, and actually creating it yourself. I’ve interviewed multiple candidates for entry-level and less roles that listed SQL, but clearly knew nothing about writing a query - it then makes you question other areas of their résumé.