![]() The first think you’ll be doing after graduation is cleaning up your github, finishing the final touches on your final project because employers are definitely going to want to talk about it. Once you get your Money Back Guarantee, you lose access to them. They will be the ones to check your weekly job tracker to make sure you’re keeping up with the Money Back Guarantee requirements. They are also, by proxy, the face of Flatiron School post graduation. They are your personal cheerleaders and you’ll never realize how much you always needed one until you have one. They will help construct job hunting strategies, do mock cultural interviews, help you clean up your resume and LinkedIn, and in general check in on your mental health. These people will check in with you on a weekly basis, usually by video call. We usually hear from them via a blast email announcing an open role, and please email back if you are interested.Ĭareer Coaching Services: Career Coaches on retainer by Flatiron School. Some try to help you land your dream job, others just want to jam you into whatever opening is available, the “any job counts” approach. They talk with potential employers, help negotiate initial wage expectations, and either set appointments for interviews with prospective employers, or in some cases, just send you a link to a job opening. I’ll break them down for you below:Įmployer Partnership Group: Headhunters on retainer with Flatiron School. The second is their Career Coaching Services. The first is the Employer Partnership Group. The next thing you need to know is that post-graduation, Flatiron has two organs for helping their graduates find a job. I profoundly felt their absence the first morning after graduation. Fifteen weeks of stress, anguish, self doubt will bring people together that no amount of team building exercises will ever accomplish. ![]() Second, you have to get used to not being in the pockets of your classmates, your fellow travelers on the rocky uphill battle to get to the finish line. First, you have to get used to not getting up early in the morning and smashing your brain against whatever math or coding problem you were actively smashing your brain against the night before. So let’s talk a little about what life looks like post graduation. In my next post, I’m going to talk a little bit about what my job search looked like, how frustrating it was, and how I eventually landed a job. Since the blog is going to be a little long, I’m going to start with the resources Flatiron school has to offer you, and what the first 90 days post graduation looks like. Many of you reading my blog will have wondered at this point, that’s all fine and good, but where is Hamilton now? What has post-graduation looked like for him? Is it amazing as their advertising suggests? More importantly, people want to know, DID YOU LAND A JOB? I gained a lot of hard skills, that I can hone and build upon to make myself a more attractive candidate, many of which can be applied in more than one industry. If you’ve been following along on all of my blogs, you’ll know it was a hard and difficult journey, but I learned an incredible amount. With that in mind, in July of 2019, I embarked on my data science journey at Flatiron School’s Immersive Data Science program. Good strategy and decisions are made with careful analysis of available data, and good business decisions are made from that analysis. After a year of realizing it was going to be difficult to find my way into another company, I decided that I wanted to act on my desire to be able to make a difference in people’s lives by helping to guide strategy. Two years ago, in August of 2018, I was laid off from my job as a Financial Planner and Sales Consultant at UBS. Hopefully, it won’t be the last blog I post, but I wanted to share with you this last step in my journey. For those of you who have been following along my journey through Data Science Boot Camp, this will be the final chapter in the current stage of my Data Science journey. Closing the Circle on My Data Science Saga
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