I recently made a career transition, changing full-time jobs for the first time since I graduating. While I’m still going to be a research analyst, I’ve moved from the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia to Accenture. My work will now pivot from economic research and monetary policy to a broad array of topics tackled by the Data Science team I joined. I’m looking forward to applying my research and data science skills to this new space and learning everything I can from the talented people I’ll be surrounded by! I’m also hoping the increased focus on applied research will improve the data science methodology I deploy for the articles I write on this website (of which I have not posted any in a while but have about a half dozen currently in various states of completion).

In the meantime, I have written a blog post over on Menti’s website sharing advice from my experience in recruiting for data science-oriented roles. The post is full of resources I picked up along the way and tips given to me from others whom I spoke to or scoured from around the Internet. I wanted to highlight this post in case there are others out there looking to make a job change or trying to break into the data science field. In addition, I’ve written a guide on what data science is and how to break into the field for Menti before - check that out here.