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Across the board, career coaching has shown to have remarkable benefits for an individual’s career. The Institute of Coaching reports that over 70% of those who receive coaching see improvements in their work performance, communication skills, and relationships. 

Executive and senior managers routinely get coaching from consultants hired to help them develop their leadership skills. CEOs including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Eric Schmidt have all worked with career coaches to hone their communication, develop new concepts, and get feedback on their visions. 

By working with a coach, developers and programmers can cultivate new skills, receive feedback on their career trajectory, and learn how to future-proof their resume. Coaching can take different forms: from informal coaching, like a coffee chat with experienced peers, to semi-formal mentoring or joining an organization/team that provides mentorship, to formally hiring are all valuable ways to get career feedback. Coaching is critical to freelance developers seeking to stay ahead of the competition. Here’s why every developer needs career coaching along the way. 

Here are 10 tips that I have for aspired data scientists which come from my experiences of applying for data science roles and participating in the recruitment of other data scientists.

With a recent influx of e-mails from prospective data scientists, I became inspired to share my journey thus far.

Finding the right data scientist position with the right cultural fit, projects to work on, and compensation package is challenging, but very possible. It takes patience and determination.

I hope to instill confidence in those searching for their first few data science roles.