This blog is contributed by Heidi Kalish and Matt Kleffner, Burtch Works’ analytics recruiting experts that specialize in the financial services industry Earlier this month, Burtch Works’ Managing Director, Linda Burtch, posted her list of predictions for the 2019 data science and analytics hiring market. With over 30 years of experience recruiting quantitative professionals, her… Read more »
Linda Burtch, Managing Director at Burtch Works | 30+ years’ experience in quantitative recruiting Another year into the data-driven boom, and several longer-term trends have been taking shape. Looking over my predictions from last year, there are also a few that have begun to further coalesce going into 2019. I’m eager to dig in and… Read more »
This post is contributed by Sandy Marmitt, Burtch Works’ data science and analytics recruiting specialist. A few months ago I wrote a post about how data scientists and analytics professionals can manage multiple job offers, but what happens when you get to the next stage – offer evaluation and negotiation? There are several elements to consider… Read more »
This post is contributed by Katie Ferguson and Flora Jiang, Burtch Works’ early career recruiting experts. As a follow-up to our popular post on resume tips for analytics professionals, for our next post we thought it might be helpful to cover some advice on both phone and in-person interviews. Whether you’re finishing up your quantitative degree program or… Read more »
This post is contributed by Burtch Works’ data science and data engineering recruiting specialists. Five years ago the data science hiring market was awash with unicorn headlines, but, as we reported earlier this year, we’re noticing a distinct trend towards specialists instead of generalists. And while many data scientists are still equipped to work on every… Read more »
Burtch Works Foreword After examining the results of our 2018 SAS, R, or Python flash survey to determine how the tool preferences of data scientists and analytics professionals vary by a myriad of factors, we decided to turn our dataset over to an actual data scientist to see what else could be found in the… Read more »
This post is contributed by Sandy Marmitt, Burtch Works’ analytics recruiting specialist. The job market for data scientists and analytics professionals continues to be strong, but a common situation I’ve seen is that quantitative professionals may be fielding several job offers at the same time. As the market becomes more saturated and demand continues to increase,… Read more »
Learn more about some of the other SAS vs. R vs. Python trends we’ve observed over the past five years in our 14-minute video on our extended analysis! For the past five years we’ve been surveying our network of data scientists and analytics professionals to determine which tool they prefer to use – SAS, R,… Read more »
This post is a summary of our annual update to our data scientist salary report series, which includes analysis of the complete compensation and demographic information of 399 data scientists. The new set of data for The Burtch Works Study: Salaries of Data Scientists May 2018 was collected by our recruiters during the 12 months… Read more »
Machine learning buzz has seemingly taken the world by storm – but which groups are most likely to use these techniques, and how does usage vary by industry? As machine learning techniques have become much more ubiquitous in the data science and analytics community over the past few years, we decided it was high time… Read more »
