{"id":11967,"date":"2021-02-13T11:16:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T16:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=11967"},"modified":"2021-02-13T11:16:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T16:16:51","slug":"how-can-we-fix-the-data-science-talent-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/how-can-we-fix-the-data-science-talent-shortage\/11967\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can We Fix the Data Science Talent Shortage?"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Springboard Blog, Jan 22, 2021. Data science might just be the\u00a0most buzzed-about job in tech right now, but its pop culture sheen conceals some of the harsh realities of being a fresh graduate in the industry. The job\u00a0topped LinkedIn\u2019s yearly Emerging Jobs Report from 2016 to 2019 consecutively (it is\u00a0now at #3). But when Springboard data science alum Kristen Colley started hunting for her first data science job in 2019, most companies were not interested in her data science credentials.\u00a0\u201cWhen I started rebranding myself as a data analyst with the ability to handle machine learning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/how-can-we-fix-the-data-science-talent-shortage\/11967\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Springboard Blog, Jan 22, 2021. Data science might just be the\u00a0most buzzed-about job in tech right now, but its pop culture sheen conceals some of the harsh realities of being a fresh graduate in the industry. The job\u00a0topped LinkedIn\u2019s yearly Emerging Jobs Report from 2016 to 2019 consecutively (it is\u00a0now at #3). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[1161,230,166,91,791,243],"class_list":["post-11967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-data-analyst","tag-data-analytics","tag-data-science","tag-data-scientists","tag-deep-learning","tag-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11969,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions\/11969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}