if you're an academic, the best time to bail out to industry was last year and the second best time is now
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eigenrobot Retweeted calm self seer 😇 🙃
Great question. 1. Get industry internships, consultancies, anything you can using your institutional affiliation as leverage. Start learning norms and building a resume to demonstrate that you'll onboard easily to full time.https://twitter.com/FeelsMcReals/status/1272960004547588099?s=19 …
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2. Try to get up to speed on industry tooling. Look at new hire requirements for jobs that might fit your skills. Use these tools in your academic work where you can to build fluency or at least proficiency.
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3. Try to pick courses with content that transfers easily to industry. I did a pure ML sequence outside of the usual econometrics coursework and that was instrumental in swinging my first role.
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4. Remember that your job is escaping rather than graduating per se. Graduate if it will actually help; there are some job classes that want a PhD. But this is not the academic job market and credentials typically don't matter so much once you get established.
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5. Make friends outside of academia and ask them for advice. Many people will be happy to refer you; they're often heavily incentivized, in fact. Ask politely, but especially for work at large firms it is not a major lift.
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Replying to @eigenrobot
The amount some places will pay you with PhD after your name, some stats knowledge, and Tableau experience is bonkers. Can't believe people actually try to become academics.
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Can confirm and I'm ABD
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