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Bryan Cafferky, a Data & AI Consultant and author, provides career advice for individuals entering the data and AI fields. He emphasizes the importance of skill development, choosing the right company for growth, and continuously learning to adapt to technological shifts. Cafferky also highlights the significance of interviewing potential employers and avoiding consulting roles until gaining experience.

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CareerAdvice2024

Bryan Cafferky, a Data & AI Consultant and author, provides career advice for individuals entering the data and AI fields. He emphasizes the importance of skill development, choosing the right company for growth, and continuously learning to adapt to technological shifts. Cafferky also highlights the significance of interviewing potential employers and avoiding consulting roles until gaining experience.

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Career Advice

Bryan Cafferky
https://github.com/bcafferky/shared
About Bryan Cafferky…

➢ Data & AI Consultant.


➢ Author of Master Azure Databricks Step By Step, an in-depth training book, available on
Amazon.
➢ Creator of a popular Data and AI YouTube training channel with over 37k subscribers.
➢ Author of Pro PowerShell for Database Developers by Apress.
➢ Past Microsoft Data Platform MVP.
➢ Past Microsoft Cloud and Data Center MVP.
➢ Developed a full online R Programming Language video course for PragmaticWorks.
➢ Masters in Business Administration from Bentley University. BA/BS from Bryant University.

https://www.youtube.com/@BryanCafferky https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryancafferky
https://www.youtube.com/@BryanCafferky
Where Are We Going?
➢Long Term Career Directions
➢Your First Job
➢Current Job Roles in Data and AI
➢Recent Trends
➢Your First Job & Interviewing
➢Advice
Your First Job
➢ Focus on a job that will help you build your skills!
➢ Find a Company that will Invest in You! Training, Mentoring, Growth Path
➢ Avoid Consulting and Sales Roles.
➢ Consider Working On Company Premises.
➢ Don't Be Desperate. If you have to take a poor selection, take it but keep looking.
➢ Interview the Company and Remember the Manager You Work For is Critical.
JOB SECURITY

‘Danger!
Danger! Will
Robinson!’
Your only
job
security
is your
skills!!!
Surfing Tech Skills
Data Analytics, AI & Public Cloud
Client Server (1995 – 2005) Mobile Computing (2006 – 2014) (2015 – Present)

SQL

SQL

You Need to Watch for Technical Shifts and Continually Be Learning!


SURVIVING THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE
THE CURRENT DATA PROFESSIONAL

Hands Off
Automation

Platform
Agnostic

Myriad
Technologies

Cloud AI
Big Data
Data & AI Roles

Data Data Data Report


ML Ops
Analyst Engineer Scientist Dev
Less Technical Medium/Big Data Expert in Statistics Tracking
• Visuals
Business Focus ETL/ELT Create AI/ML Models Deploying Models
May Do DW Models Being Automated? • ETL/ELT Data Models
within BI Tool
The Data Science Process

Data
Data Movement & Transformation Pipelines
Warehouse

Data Visuals
Analyst
Architect/Engineer Data Scientist ML Ops Report
Dev
Roles Breakdown
Data Engineer
• Big Data Solutions Design and Orchestration
• Cloud ETL with Azure Data Factory
• Data Lake/Lakehouse Design
• Python Development
• Cloud Automation
• Spark
• NoSQL Databases
Data Architect
• Cloud Based Development
• Apache Spark, Databricks, Snowflake
• Scaled Out Performance Tuning
• Big Data Solution Architecture & Design
• Securing Solutions
• Data Platform Automation
Data Scientist
• Strong background in statistics.
• Defines the business opportunity for ML.
• Works with the data engineer to define the data required.
• Feature Engineering.
• Train Models and Compare to Select the Best model.
• Work with the Data Science Operationalizer to Deploy the solution.
• Monitors the ML pipeline and refactors solutions as needed.
Cloud Data Science Operationalizer (MLOps)

• Architects and Designs the Data Science Solution.


• Designs and Implements Machine Learning Pipeline.
• Incorporates Security, Scale, Extensibility into Solutions.
• Determines best model training compute, model deployment
compute, data storage technologies, and orchestration
architecture.
• Well Versed in Data Science and Big Data technologies.
Dashboard Developer
• Tell Data Stories with Power BI
• Wrangle Data from Many Sources
• Cloud Deployment and Admin
• Advanced Visualization Functionality
• Python and R Language
• Incorporate Machine Learning
Technical Career Directions
Career Directions
Technical Professional
➢ Job Security (Skills = Security). Start Here
➢ Mobility & Leverage.
➢ Salaries can be just as high as managers.

Management
➢ High Salaries and possible bonuses.
➢ No job security. Luck and politics. Must be a "Yes" person.
➢ Quickly become out of touch with technology. Hard to go back.

Technical Sales
➢ Can pay better than the other options. $$$
➢ No job security. You better keep meeting your quotas.

Independent
➢ You are in control.
➢ Money depends on your success.
Thoughts on Recent Trends
Remote Working
➢ Companies can hire employees from low-cost locations.
➢ Less investment in employees.

Employee Churn
➢ Employers don't invest in employees anymore. It's up to you to stay relevant.
➢ Employers place less value on how their decisions affect employees.

Increasing Employer Volatility


➢ Here today. Gone tomorrow.
➢ High Turnover in Middle Management.
Thoughts on Interviewing
➢ Interviews are like going on date. You're BOTH trying to find the perfect match.

➢ You Need to Interview the Employer and Identify RED Flags Potential Problems.
➢ Red Flags:
➢ Interviewer is late, rude, negative, vague.
➢ Company Seems Chaotic.
➢ Do they respect your time and are they thoughtful. Example: Provide lunch if you
interview over lunch time.
➢ What Support Will You Get in the Role, i.e., mentoring, team lead, training?
➢ Will the Role Help You Grow Your Professional and Technical Skills?
➢ Is the Organization Using State of the Art Technology?
➢ Does It Sounds Like a Job You Want to Do?
Advice
➢ Avoid Joining a Consulting Firm Until You Have Experience.

➢ Keep Learning! College is Just a Small Start on your Continuing


Education. It's Ok to spend your own money.

➢ Try to Pick a Focus: Data Engineering, Visualizations, Data Science.

➢ Network! Network! Network!

➢ Focus on getting the work you want to learn and do, not the company.

➢ Use your current job to train for your future job!


Advice

➢ Stop Focusing on the Grading Rubric! Knowledge is what matters.


Wrapping Up
➢Long Term Career Directions
➢Your First Job
➢Current Job Roles in Data and AI
➢Recent Trends
➢Your First Job & Interviewing
➢Advice

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