Data Science leader Gurleen Sabharwal is guest this week on Would You Data Scientist where her and host Wendy Gannon give you their advice on getting into the field of data. Find out about how Gurleen has developed online chat bots, how your diverse skillset can help the whole team, data privacy, and the cultural differences between working environments.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Everyone brings different skillsets to the job. You can use them to your advantage when going for a position and to help other members of the team. Your skillset becomes a skill the whole team can learn from you.
• What is it that you would like to work on? What problems do you want to solve? Research the different data science industries and work out what fits in with what you want from the job.
• Before applying for a job have a portfolio of all the work you've done solving problems with data. Show your skills and your passion with examples.
• Showing that you can solve problems with data is more important than a Master's degree according to Gurleen. It can help, but isn't essential.
• Remember, working in data science can do great things for women.
  
  

BEST MOMENTS

‘There's a lot of imposter syndrome from women and people from none technical backgrounds'

‘If you want to do something simpler to explain things to the business, then do that'

‘Your location information is being shared'

EPISODE RESOURCES

Gurleen on LinkedIn

Cassie Kozyrkov - Chief Decision Scientist at Google

ABOUT THE GUEST

Gurleen is a customer focused data science leader with extensive experience in enabling data driven decision making at large organizations.

She has over 14 years of experience with large B2B and B2C businesses where she has helped them to:

• Build large high performance and diverse data science / analytics teams.
• Convert business problems into data science / analytical solutions by leveraging strengths in ML/ AI, predictive and data analytics.
• Create seamless personalized customer experiences across all touch points (including chatbots).
• Perform data led storytelling to bring compelling insights to key stakeholders for business adoption.
• Enable cloud adoption by embracing change.

VALUABLE RESOURCES

linkedin.com/in/ethicalrecruiter

qwerkrecruitment.com

@qwerkrec on socials

ABOUT THE HOST

Wendy Gannon started Qwerk Recruitment in the middle of the Covid Pandemic to disrupt the recruitment sector with ETHICAL data recruitment and treat everyone with love, dignity and respect. Avid Music photographer of 15 years.

PODCAST DESCRIPTION 

Interviewing successful Data Scientists to find out about their journey into Data Science and any struggles they've faced to help next generation Data Scientists from all walks of life to access their dream career.

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