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Out of Academia

Ken's Story

TL;DR

Now you have to talk to regular people, aka, people

• without any interest in your research;�
• without the most basic ability to understand anything in your field.

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….goodluck

The Path I took

1 Year Gap : Graduation

½ Year Gap : Laid Off

2 Week Gap : Found New Job

2 Month Off : Salary

time

Plenty of Jobs You Can Take

Communication Heavy

Technical Skills Heavy

Content Creator

Writer

Programmer (Hardcore)

• Trading?�- institutional + personal
• Data Science

Strategy

A Lot of Them Requires Communication Skills

More About "Communicating"

• that you possess the skills � v.s. actually having them, actually using them
• the value you bring.

Less About having skills

Data Science

Machine Learning

• Building applications
• Innovating
• Making things work
• OpenAI vs Everyone ?

Analytics

• Experimentation
• Product Knowledge
• Quick and Dirty Estimations
• Strategy & Operations
• Where does data come in?

Me : Marketing DS

DS Success Depends on Size/Organization

Core DS Job

Analytics

Strategy

Data Cleaning

Building Data Pipeline

Training others to understand math

Basic Capability to Run Data Operations

Data Scientist

• New tech position �
• HEAVY Infracture dependence�
• Ask questions about the company working style.
• learn the hidden keywords
• determines your QoL
• Tech vs Bank vs Healthcare�
• Ask about their tech stack.
• your work QoL

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critical, but not always available

Intermission

Questions? Comments?

What are you interested in ?

Finding My Way There : 1 Year

⇒ Develop that 1 Skill you're not actively using in your PhD,�

⇒ Translating PhD Knowledge into Trade Skills

• i did not know what is A/B Testing.

⇒ Explaining that to Non Technical People

• using terms they understand

⇒ Explaining that to "OTHER" Technical People

• learn how they deal with the same problem in another field

⇒ Knowing What people are looking for

• so give it to them

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Case Study :

Econ: always looking for unbiased estimators

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Standard vs Special

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Being Special :

a portfolio of related work

OR people who knows your work

OR you're known for that thing

aka. 'proven' skills + niche knowledge

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B School Peeps

• They were taught baby models�
• They only remember the results

Learn how to make slides

• be strategic.
• ask yourself:

what is the goal?

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Case Study : When being asked, think this:

(Made Up) Imagine you're in a mobile game company, which people can spend money onto digital goods the company create. You are to A/B test some new features, to see if it can push users would spending a lot of time onto.

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What the problem truly about ?

• Technical
• Strategic
• Political

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The END

what happens "after the end"?