I completed a master’s in analytics last year and am stagnant in my current role. While I work on a big account, I’m not using my new skills and want a more analytics-focused position. I’ve been applying and interviewing for well over a year (~20+ jobs weekly), revamping my resume and LinkedIn multiple times. I’m concerned that staying in my current role too long may affect my relevance and hire-ability. Very fortunate to be employed but need career growth! Any advice?

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Advice is just apply lol, even if you don't feel qualified enough, gotta also remember you're also competing with people blatantly lying on resume, using AI assistants, hiring managers being aware of both those realities and trying to filter out those people, which could come off as a false negative against you.

- As far as actionable stuff, lean in on your specific personal traits and domain expertise.
- Try to figure what hiring managers you best appeal to and why.
- Speak with people at the company that you have an interview at, these can be current or previous employees.
- Do a little stalking on the hiring manager, try to weave interests you found into your interview.

Follow up, and most importantly, aim for jobs on your level because I'm tired of getting to final rounds and not getting offers because someone with 7 years of experience and a master's degree is competing against me and my 2-3.5 ish years of experience.

And if you feel like stepping on the rest of us, look for jobs with limited candidate pools that you're likely overqualified for but matches the pay that you want.

Networking does help alot, but it's generally a mix of being white, lucky, and exactly what someone is looking for at a specific time, for each trait you don't have, you'll need more of the others.

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Hi! My group lead has been looking for a marketing analyst for some time and having been part of the interview process I would say the biggest reason the position has remained open is because the candidates have not presented business case studies where they presented the initial challenge, outcome and how they contributed to the process. Interviews (especially those done remotely) are hard because the hiring manager often doesn’t understand the difficulty of each stage so it’s up to the candidate to simplify technical processes and offer the hiring manager a sense of how difficult, time intensive, resource heavy each is without scaring them.
Asking good questions that demonstrate how you are applying your experience to this new business are always welcome and appreciated.

This is of course for marketing/advertising analytics but I hope that gives you some insight from the other side of the interview panel.

PM me. Seriously. I was in the same spot as you 2 years ago and I’m thriving now (same company, moved to an internal role and very focused on analytics now).

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