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    Acing Your Analytics Career Transition
    Acing Your Analytics Career Transition
    Acing Your Analytics Career Transition
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    Acing Your Analytics Career Transition

    By Piyanka Jain

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    Who wouldn’t be enticed by the hot world of data analytics? The jobs are plentiful and the salary is great! But successful transitions to this exciting career require planning, preparation and advice from the expert: Piyanka Jain, author of “Behind Every Good Decision” and President and CEO of analytics consulting company Aryng.

    In “Acing Your Analytics Career Transition,” Jain provides a thorough, step-by-step “how-to” book on how to move from your current job into your dream analytics role. This information-packed book walks you through key stages in the career transition process, such as assessing your own aptitude for analytics, preparing your dream job short list, and identifying your skill gaps for the job you want. Next, Jain uses her extensive real-world data analytics experience with Fortune 50 companies to help you find analytics training options right for you. You’ll learn why nothing can beat having real-world, hands-on data analytics training in preparing you for a successful career. Finally, follow clear, concise bullet points on writing a killer resume and acing your interview and you’ll be well on your way to moving into the hot analytics field.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPiyanka Jain
    Release dateJun 5, 2017
    ISBN9781370439812
    Acing Your Analytics Career Transition
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    Piyanka Jain

    Piyanka Jain is the President and CEO of Aryng - a management consulting company focused on Analytics for business impact. As a highly regarded industry thought leader in analytics, she has been a keynote speaker at business and analytics conferences including American Marketing Association, Predictive Analytics World, GigaOm, Google Analytics User Conference. She speaks about data driven decision making to gain competitive advantage. In 15 years as an analytics leader, she has had 150M+ demonstrated impact on business. As a gifted problem solver, she seeks out patterns and insights to drive change in her client's organizations and impact top levers of business. She considers customer satisfaction, empowerment and positive engagement as the highest rewards, and dollar impact as a natural consequence of it. Her book 'Behind Every Good Decision' is an actionable guide for business managers on data driven decision making through business analytics. She has two Masters degrees with thesis involving applied mathematics and statistics. A hiker, runner and yogi, she lives in Sunnyvale, California.

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      Acing Your Analytics Career Transition - Piyanka Jain

      Advance Praises For

      Acing Your Analytics Career Transition

      Everyone's jumping on the analytics bandwagon - and for good reason! So get a leg up and stand above the crowd. Premier analytics consultant Piyanka Jain draws a clear, pragmatic roadmap for taking your first steps and selectively honing in on a specific career direction among the wide range of work opportunities in data science, business analytics, and predictive analytics. In so doing, she has provided for you the very first book of its kind.

      -Eric Siegel, Ph.D.

      Founder of Predictive Analytics World and author of Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

      Piyanka Jain and her consulting firm Aryng have developed an analytics framework and approach that is effective, pragmatic, proven, and removes the voodoo from analytics. I have used their model on several occasions with great success. This booklet proves again that Piyanka and team have a knack for giving straightforward and practical advice that can be immediately applied. Follow their advice and model and you will see a great ROI on your analytics career.

      Harly Neumann, PhD

      Vice President of Human Resources - Sutter Health

      Piyanka has created a powerful, step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to transition to an analytics career. Just like a good career coach, the booklet helps in assessing your fit for an analytics role and explaining how to acquire the right skills. I have seen many professionals struggle at this stage as they are not sure what to do after gaining analytics skills. Piyanka also has resources to gain real life analytics experience, prepare for interviews, and be ready for analytics roles. A must-read for all who are looking to successfully transition to an analytics career.

      Puneet Sharma

      VP Product and Analytics, JustAnswer

      Analytics @ Work

      Acing Your Analytics Career Transition

      Piyanka Jain

      Author of the bestseller

      Behind Every Good Decision

      Copyright © 2017 Piyanka Jain

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      Table of Contents

      Preface

      1 - Beginning Your Career Transition

      2 - Identify Your Analytics Skill Gaps

      3 - Choose the Right Skills

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