Any DA’s out there successfully pivot from FA? Bachelor in finance and 2 yrs exp as an FA, also taking certificates in DA and python through local college. Zero luck thus far, next on the list is SQL but losing hope as I’ve applied to countless DA roles with no responses.

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Come to Capital One as a business analyst. It’s a good halfway point between DA and FA, and you can use it as a springboard to go into a more technical direction if you want. HMU for a referral, I also started out as an FA before I came here

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That would be great, can’t message you yet but would love a referral there. Where are you based? Is capital one remote?

I started as an FA and then moved to data and analytics. I recommend learning SQL as it is a baseline requirement for many data positions.

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So I do both, I specialize in financial data analytics. I think the difference between the finance generalists and data people is understanding the IT/operations side of the house, how information flows through the business as well as how to access, view, and manipulate it (the DA technical side). You can’t just learn that stuff in an online course, and also Python is not used by data analysts like at all, that’s engineering and you won’t ever qualify for that without going back to school unfortunately. My advice, get better at ops and data visualization and explaining business functions/purposes and you win. Engineers get bullied by management anyways (an unfortunate truth that i hope changes)

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I would try to find ways in your current job that you can use data analytics. Create dashboards in Tableau in work ( or for side projects) try to automate tasks with python etc. While my internships in college were mostly excel, I tried to build python scripts to automate them which lead me to the path I’m on as a data scientist / data engineer

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