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most people think that going from a data analyst to a data scientist is very hard

and can take years however one of my recent clients billy

did this transformation in just two months billy joined my program on may 1st

and his goal was to land a senior data scientist position at global

or big company at that point in time billy has sent in over 30 applications

and didn't hear anything back he didn't know how to effectively communicate

and portray his skills on his LinkedIn

and resume he also didn't know how to communicate through recruiters during the interview process

and finally he didn't really fully understand how to position himself for these data science

and machine learning roles that he was targeting

but over the next couple of months Billy

and I worked very closely together to address

and solve these problems one by one Billy worked very hard every single day listen to the feedback

and then two months later he got offered a senior data science position at a global established company

and his total compensation went up by 30k usd how quickly

did it take you to get an offer out of curiosity i mean i know

but just like how quick was that process in terms of

when you start refining things to when you start getting offers it's uh one and

and a half months yeah it's much much I'm honest it's

much much than I expected yeah yeah I gave myself six

months yes to land my first author yeah yeah Billy is an absolute legend

and was a complete pleasure to work with in fact he's still in the program improving his skills even further

so in this video I want to break down the exact three -step system

that Billy followed

and is also a system I I've followed with all my other clients to help them land their dream data

or machine learning role.

Let's get into it.

So like I said Billy joined my program on May 1st

and he had so many questions about essentially how should he actually go from a data analyst to a data scientist.

At this point in time Billy had been working for just

over five years at an established big company here in the uk

and before that he was a journalist

so he spent most of his time at one company

and what he told me is that he enjoyed his work

but he felt a bit stagnant uh there wasn't much growth

and he was just a little bit he wanted something more exciting

because he wanted his career to really kick on

and reach those higher tier companies that he was after

when billy joined he asked questions like what type of data

science role should i target what kind of companies should i focus on

and can he move industries from media to other industries these are all great questions

and we started off by fixing his positioning

which was exactly in the first week so a thing I like to say

and it goes back to marketing is that

if you appeal to everyone you appeal to no one

and the same is true in this data field right I've

had people come to me who say there are a data analyst a data scientist

and a machine learning engineer not not even joking I literally had someone last week who had this exact profile

and I tell them you're not you can't be all three it's like saying you're a dentist a doctor

and you're also a psychiatrist you're just not right

and unfortunately you have to be specific and niche down in a particular area

so that you kind of swallow the market in

that let me show you an example so when someone asks me eagle you know what is your positioning?

What is your niche?

This is what I say.

I'm a machine learning engineer with over five years experience in the energy insurance and logistic industries, specializing in time series forecasting,

operations research, and apply machine learning.

It's very crystal clear and very specific, but that's deliberate because whenever someone LinkedIn searches machine learning engineer,

time series, optimization, London, I'm the first hit.

I swallowed the market in my positioning

and that's what enabled me to basically get offers fairly easily

because i'm the top here i don't go to people people come to me right

and this is the exact positioning i nailed every single client

as soon as they come into my program i literally sit down with them for half an hour

and i draft them out this two -centage summary so they're

so they are crystal clear on their positioning

and we did did this exact same thing for billy

and then billy's summary was journalists turned data scientists with five plus years of experience building machine learning forecasting

and statistical models across media products identifying 50 million pounds in revenue opportunities

that is just phenomenal summary right like when you hear

that you'd be like yeah this guy's good right he's condensed

that his revenue his specialisms and his industries

and also noticed he started already calling himself a data scientist you know before

that billy was a data analyst with some you know data data science work but we literally

or I literally forced him to call him a data scientist

because once you assume that profile and you kind of have

that goal and everything else you kind of tailor to

that it's like a mindset shift and you just assume

that identity and you just approach interviews applications in

that frame it's a real powerful psychological trick and like I said

that summary we just drafted Billy is very specific right like we mentioned his specialisms we mentioned

that he's in the media industry mainly and

that he's you know generated 50 million pounds in revenue i

mean like why wouldn't you want to hire this person particularly

if you're after someone in those industries it's just the positioning is

so nailed down that no wonder billy got a job

so quickly so after we got

that fleshed out billy then went on to update his resume

and his linkedin accordingly with that positioning

and as you can see from my comments here below on his resume review

that i gave him

that i was actually blown away by his resume now drafting a good resume is actually not that hard

and what it comes down to is people literally putting in

effort right it's just effort you know i've told many people i've got loads of videos on this channel

that your resume should have this this and this people still don't do it

but billy he literally listened to what i told him he literally went through every checklist i gave him

and he executed literally to the T, right?

That's why I was blown away because his resume was phenomenal.

But Billy's not an exception.

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All of you can do this.

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It's more that are you willing to put in 10 hours of work to create a really good resume?

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What Billy did exceptionally well was that every bullet point in his experience section was phenomenal, right?

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So he hit on everything.

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He explained exactly what he'd done clearly in English.

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He added technical terms to show his knowledge, but he added them in organically he keyword padded as well

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so not only did he have technical terms but he also added keywords

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but he added them in a way

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that didn't seem like he was stuffing them in

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but they were added in very naturally he mentioned the metrics

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and the numbers he improved and finally he stated the exact financial

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and business impact of his work

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which the main thing let me give you an example i'm

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sure billy won't mind me sharing this from his resume of an experience bullet point like this is just fantastic.

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So listen to this very closely.

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Implemented a Bayesian probabilistic license fee uplift model using Monte Carlo simulation, beta distributions and PERT analysis,

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projecting a 900 % increase in detectable unlicensed accounts,

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27k additional cases monthly and a 15 million annual revenue opportunity.

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Deployed this model end -to -end pipeline with apache airflow and

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and aws redshift just wow i mean it sounds impressive right

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he built the model i understand what it did it had a metric improvement had a financial improvement

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and he deployed it end -to -end like these are the bullet points we should all aim for

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and no wonder

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if you write something like this on your resume someone be

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like yeah again this guy knows what he's talking about

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and that's the standard we want to adhere to

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and the fact is billy did it so perfectly that

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because the competition not gonna lie to you is quite low no wonder he was able to land the role

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so quickly because he just executed on the 80 of things

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that most people just don't do

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and a second thing is to polish my linking profile

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and cv yeah because before i joined this program i applied for uh dozens of jobs

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and uh the conversion rate if i can put it that way the conversion rate was quite low, if I'm honest.

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But that was because I was not communicating my experience very effectively on my profile and my CV.

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And Billy took this exact same framing and impact to his LinkedIn.

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And literally within the first, I think, four weeks, he immediately started landing inbound interviews.

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In fact, one of his first interviews, which was 27 days later from joining my program was at Spotify right Spotify this is a company

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that people dream of getting into

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and Billy got it simply within four weeks just by being

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very precise in his positioning nailing his resume in LinkedIn

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and just really applying himself right and there's no secret he got

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that because he was working very hard and taking on feedback

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and just listening to everything we were working through

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and again Spotify interview in four weeks that's some people's dream

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so after there'll be fixed positioning resume in LinkedIn we then had to get those interviews

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but at this point in time Billy was smashing through interview requests

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or at least inbound and both outbound from recruiters he was getting

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so many interviews it was actually crazy in fact Billy was landing interviews at companies like PayPal Amazon

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and TikTok within a month

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and a half of joining my program I asked Billy like

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why did why did he think he was landing all these interviews

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and this was exact words he repositioned himself from analyst to

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scientist makes sense he added all those revenue numbers on his cv resume

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and he started dming recruiters and general colleagues at these companies using our referral templates

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and as you can see from the screenshot this is you know i'm not saying we're the best

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but like i like to think we know what we're talking

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about billy said verbatim just like what you said guys just do it these things work

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and during this program uh one thing very important is to always put revenue numbers on the cv right yeah and

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that really helped me uh to land a lot of interviews

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really a lot well i like to think well i do know what i'm talking about

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but when you actually fully commit

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which what billy did to the program he listened to everything

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we told him he went through the steps we worked together

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closely he asked for consistent feedback i'm not taking anything away from billy he worked very hard

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but he applied everything we told him

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and he also learned what worked for him there's no wonder

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he got results what kind of stops people in a job search is commitment

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and simply being like i am going to do this no

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matter what i'm going to listen i'm going to take the

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feedback on board i'm going to go through the emotions most people have drama problems

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and what i mean is most things in life are drama problems

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or maths problems and majority of things

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that happen to you are honestly drama problems like you know i can't refer i can't reach out for referrals

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because it's transactional

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or I'm shy you know oh I don't know any numbers

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on my resume like none of my work was linked to business impact these are simply excuses

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and Billy didn't have any right he just said okay

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if this is what I need to do I'm going to

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do it he didn't think about it he was like okay

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Igor told me to do this it's working for me

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so let me carry on doing it

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and that's of what you need to do the job search

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is hard getting a data science job is difficult it requires

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a lot of work we get paid 100k a year here

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in the uk 200k a year in the us it's not a walk in the park

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but if you leave your emotions out of it you approach it very objectively you will make progress

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because you won't have that drama thoughts in your head with all these interviews

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that billy was landing he even's dming me keeping me up

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to date with all the ones he was getting through the

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pipeline he was literally getting a brand new inbound from top companies reach out to him almost every single day

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and he was just completely crushing it

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but at this point he was landing these interviews

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but again that's only really half the battle once you land

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these interviews you also need to understand how to convert them to act well first you need to pass them

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and then learn how to convert them to offers with all of these interviews

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that billy was landing we did mocks for recruiter screen hiring manager coding interviews case studies

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and behavioral we literally did 10 mock interviews in just three weeks so

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that billy felt prepared for all of these interviews he was

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facing at multiple companies to be fair to billy i i

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imagine it was exhausting like preparing for his interviews he also

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has you know i hope he doesn't mind me saying a

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full -time job a family like he had everything going on

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yet he still managed to make time for applications recruiter reach out networking

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and also do 10 mock interviews with mean three weeks

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and you know i say again billy is a superhero in a way

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but he just really wanted the outcome

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and there's no wonder he got it right and

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so we did mock interview practice for all of these interviews consistently

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and he took upon the feedback

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and he started passing through the interview rounds paypal's coding round

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tiktok's coding round um a lot of the recruiter screens of

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these companies he was just smashing through um the interview rounds simply from doing practice applying the frameworks

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and guides we gave him and just again leaving the drama out of it

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and just thinking about this process completely objectively not only did we practice the interviews

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but we also worked on how to actually communicate with recruiters throughout the interview process you see most people think

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that after you do an interview that's it right in reality it's like a date you know

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if i'm a man and uh

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and uh let's say i go on a date with a girl i would always ask

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if she got home safe right likewise

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if you're a girl probably the same thing right not only

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did we do mock interviews we also practiced on how to

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actually communicate with recruiters interviewers in between interview rounds is where you want to keep contact

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and what that means is sending them a follow -up email saying how much you enjoyed talking to them

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and the ideas you have so one thing is basically just how to respond to recruiters

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because before I joined this program I didn't really have much experience working with

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and also answering questions from recruiters yeah so I think it really helps

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because I can just get feedback from the community

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and also I can also directly message you

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and then you gave me some very useful feedback and

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so I knew how to like just respond to questions

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that recruiters were asking just keeping our communication warm for the next interview

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and this is exactly what billy and i worked with to ensure

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that he was progressing through these rounds with more we basically

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had a higher chance of progressing through the interview rounds

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so again billy took on all his feedback executed on the frameworks

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and then two months later he landed a senior data scientist role at a global company

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that like he said is somewhere he definitely really wants to be

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and he also got a 30k increase in total compensation

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and i guess your role now is a role you wanted

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or like i mean you have to give the exact specifics

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on title well company title like any sort of responsibilities

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or like the type of role you've got is something you're you're with

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or is that what were your feelings about

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that yeah definitely i'm completely happy with this yeah

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because in our first call in our initial call i said

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i wanted to find a uh senior a data scientist role in a big company global company yeah yeah

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and i also want to do more machine learning in my day today

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and this role that i've got checked all of the boxes

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that i just mentioned is a it's a massive global company

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and also i will be doing a lot of machine learning deploying models

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so again billy you are a great person to work with you're a fantastic individual

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and he's even now carried on learning

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and pushing himself to you know improve even more so

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that way next time

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when he's looking for another role he knows exactly what he needs to do

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and he's kind of like learned this process very well this process

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that we followed with Billy is not necessarily unique to him it's a system

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that we've used to help land over 55 data professionals

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and machine learning professionals in their dream role and

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if you're interested in exactly

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and in detail how this system works then i recommend you

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check out this video where i literally break down the whole process in 90 minutes i'll see you there

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This C1 speaking lesson is built on the video “How to Land a Data Science Job in 2 Months”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: billy, interview, resume, role. This video has 261 sentences and 3123 words to shadow. The speech runs for 17:13. The speaker talks fast, about 181 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 83% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
mock verb	/mɑk/	To mimic, to simulate.
analyst noun	/ˈænəlɪst/	Someone who analyzes.
inbound adjective	/ˈɪnbaʊnd/	Coming in, heading inwards
deploy verb	/dɪˈplɔɪ/	To prepare and arrange (originally military unit or units, i.e., to array troops) for use.
phenomenal adjective	/fɪˈnɒmɪnəl/	Very remarkable; highly extraordinary; amazing.
recruit verb	/ɹɪˈkɹut/	To enroll or enlist new members or potential employees on behalf of an employer, organization, sports team, the military, etc.
execute verb	/ˈɛksɪˌkjuːt/	To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime.
keyword noun	/ˈkiː.wɜːd/	Any word used as the key to a code.
objectively adverb	/əbˈd͡ʒɛktɪvli/	In an impartial, objective manner.
specialism noun		Speciality.
referral noun	/ɹɪˈfɜː.ɹəl/	The act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference, or referring.
niche noun	/nɪt͡ʃ/	A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament.
swallow verb	/ˈswɑ.loʊ/	To cause (food, drink etc.) to pass from the mouth into the stomach; to take into the stomach through the throat.
metric adjective	/ˈmɛt.ɹɪk/	Of or relating to the metric system of measurement.
pipeline noun	/ˈpaɪpˌlaɪn/	A conduit made of pipes used to convey water, gas or petroleum, etc.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
go through verb		To travel from one end of something to the other.
blow away verb		To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
break down verb		To stop functioning.
check out verb		To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
come down to verb		To reach by moving down or reducing.
follow up verb		To take further actions remaining after an event; to continue, revisit, or persist; especially, to maintain communication or verify.
get through verb	/ɡɛt ˈθɹu/	To overcome; to endure.
go back to verb		To stem from; to originate in.

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	was actually blown · was blown · were added
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has sent · I've followed · i've told

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 61 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, you're, didn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: smash /smæʃ/, redshift /ˈɹɛdˌʃɪft/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, transactional /trænˈzækʃ(ə)nəl/, optimization /ˌɑptəmaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Long words — get the stress right: phenomenal /fɪˈnɒmɪnəl/, objectively /əbˈd͡ʒɛktɪvli/, detectable /dɪˈtɛktəbəɫ/, organically /ɔːˈɡænɪkli/, probabilistic /ˌpɹɑ.bə.bɪˈlɪs.tɪk/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like mock, analyst, inbound.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.

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Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?