Background: bio bachelors degree, research, business and finance internships, job experience as warehouse manager at Amazon, research experience, multiple written web publications, awesome person- will bring homemade pie to office Skills: writing, Excel, GIS, financial analysis, Adobe InDesign Companies: Google, Meta, Netflix, Adobe, Rivian, Cisco, Affirm, Coinbase, Docusign, Aecom, Power Engineering, Qualtrics, Stripe, Zendesk, Atomic, Cotopaxi, Salesforce, Ford, Leafly, Lob, Sylva, Goldman Sachs, McMaster-Carr, Paper, Waste Management lol, and many lesser known companies Job titles: Manager, EDF+Business, Sustainability Analyst, Climate Corps, Associate - Business Operations and Strategy, Associate Clinical Research Associate, Environmental Scientist, Strategy Program Manager, Project Manager, RevOps Analyst, Wildlife Biologist, Biological Safety Scientist, Biological Science Technician, Process Engineer, Program Manager Major barrier: Unable to relocate from Midwest but willing to work remote. Graduated and couldn't find any job except at Amazon during pandemic. I've reached out to network with alumni, recruiters from jobs I've applied to, and my resume is very good, it just doesn't have more than 1-3 years of experience depending on role. Would anyone be willing to give a reference? or advice on a different job title I should be applying to? #references #jobsearch #tech #pleasehelp #womenintech
Not a single hard skill. Get into a Boot Camp or something. Maybe 1 years masters course in data science or something similar
Thank you for the advice! Have you seen data science get people farther in conservation work at all or does it just seem a good match for skill set?
With all those titles, you don't know what you want. If you applied to 2-3 open jobs from different families with the same company, it will raise a flag with most hiring managers.
I'm willing to do anything (especially as environmental work doesn't seem to be hiring or pay well) as I have a broad general background and not a whole lot of experience. What would you recommend? Also, if you remove the non-relevant roles, wouldn't that raise concerns about time gaps in your resume?
That's the point. You seem desperate. Focus on one specific area and when you apply, remove the non-relevant roles from your work history.
Can you do Leetcode?
I would love to be a sustainability analyst. Seems to mix conservation (doesn't typically pay a living wage) with business/hard skills, but I've had such little luck that I thought if I cast a big net, it would pay off.
We can’t see your resume obviously, but judging from all the roles you’ve applied for, you likely aren’t communicating that you specialize in any particular area.
Dude, your first two skills are writing and excel. You serious?
How would you phrase it differently?
I wouldn't phrase it differently. I'd get new skills.
How did you get into Amazon and what exactly do you do?
entry level area manager or warehouse manager
Figure out if you want to do environmental stuff or data analysis or even a business analyst role. BA might be good start and you could focus on Excel, communication skills, building frameworks and processes, etc. SQL, R, Python and Tableau are all good to learn. Get some certs. Put some code on GitHub for it and put link on resume. Get contract jobs on Upwork or similar doing hourly data analysis. put that on your resume. Get remote BA or data analysis job. Then move to a city with more opportunities if that's what you want. Can then focus on data analytics or data science or do a coding boot camp on weekends. For environmental work there won't be as many well paying opportunities in general so be aware of that if you go in that direction.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write this! I have done data analysis, but strictly with research. I will look into this more. I really do appreciate the advice.
I would recommend cloud certifications. Pick one AWS/Azure/GCP. If you are really focused you can cram and get quite a few out the door quickly. It will be a good foot in the door in tech. Once in you can always branch out. Don’t LC. Don’t do data science. The above two are competitive and require quite a bit of investment (time) Maybe some SQL for BI type stuff.
Thank you so much for the advice!!
You need MBA.
I have considered it. Usually people seem to have much more job experience when they enter an MBA than I do though.