Successful Job Application

Description

In today's competitive job market, it's essential to have the skills and knowledge to stand out from the crowd and secure your dream job. This training program is designed to help you do just that, by providing you with the tools and strategies you need to succeed in your job search and application.

Besides creating compelling resumes and cover letters, you will also learn how to prepare for interviews by learning effective interview techniques and common interview questions and a lot more.

By the end of this program, you will have the confidence and skills to succeed in your job search and land your dream job as a data engineer.

What will I learn?

Career Paths, Industries and Company Types

Learn about the different career paths in data and how the areas of software engineering, data engineering and data science overlap.

Learn about the different levels of expertise that are needed as a junior data engineer, a data engineer and other jobs in the data field. 

Get to know the pros and cons of working in a startup, a small business or a corporation. 

Social Media: Building a Personal Brand

Social Media is about building your personal brand. Learn how to do that successfully with measures such as microblogging, video sharing and more. Also get to know the different types of social posts, how to create and make use of them.

We also share some helpful tips for your LinkedIn setup with you so that you can start off right away.

Project Portfolio

Learn how to build a project portfolio and document your work. For that, we give you prepared datasets as well as our GitHub documentation template at hand.

How to Beat ATS

With all that done, you are well prepared for the next main step: your successful job application. And we show you how to do that! First, we talk about ATS (Applicant tracking system) and show you how it works and, most importantly, how to beat it, giving you the most important do’s and don’ts at hand. 

Resume & CV

We then go through the different resume types and teach you how to pick the best format to create a successful application. In addition, we show you how to write a cover letter that actually gets results. Our proofed CV template is the icing on the cake to impress HR.

Open vs Hidden Job Market & Analyzing Job Descriptions

Learn the difference between the open and hidden job market and how to approach each of them best. 

We tell you how to make use of the hidden job market and explain to you the importance of networking, with all the dos and don'ts. Also, get to know the advantage of the boolean search tool within the open job market as well as filters for successful job research.

After that, it is time to take a closer look at your searching results. Therefore, we explain to you how to analyze job descriptions and distinguish the good from the bad.

Successful Interview Progress

We guide you through a typical interview process and teach you how to get well prepared for it. In addition we show you how to demonstrate your soft skills in the best way, how to successfully lead through your salary negotiation, and which important questions to ask during the interview.  

Data Engineering Freelancing

Last but not least, we talk about why you should contemplate working as a freelance data engineer, considering all the pros and cons. Plus, we give you helpful tips on how to find the ideal freelancing position for you.