Need some advice. I pivoted into data with 4yrs of professional experience (mostly global hr roles) <1yr ago. My question is twofold; 1. How much longer should I stay in my current HR Business intelligence role before I look around? 2. When I do start looking, what are the most effective ways to stand out when applying to data & analytics roles?

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there's no reason to wait to look. you don't have to go balls to the walls on applying and interviewing but it helps you get a sense of what what's in the market, what you're looking for, compensation and gaining confidence in interviewing and using the right terminology

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To answer the second question:

Domain knowledge/experience. I don’t mean data domain, but whatever they use the data to support. There are very few purely data companies.

As has been said - no need to wait. But market right now SUCKS. Don’t get discouraged if it takes a while. Also - why not stay in HR analytics? It’s a growing space.

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