146: How I Plan to Help 52 People Land Data Jobs in 2025

I want to help you become a data analyst. This year, I have a goal to help someone land a data job every single week. That's 52 people in the year that completely change their lives and pivot into data. And I plan to document the entire mission with you guys. I'll be calling the whole thing mission 52. And honestly, I'm pretty nervous. I won't lie. With the way the market has been recently, this is a. Pretty big goal and to be doing this mission in public, or if I fail, you will all know, and you will all see is a little scary, but it's one that I feel confident that I can do. And that we can do together. You see, I've been helping people land data jobs for my full time job for four years now. And I feel pretty confident in what I'm doing. In fact, as of recording this, which is about the second week in January, we are right on schedule. Ryan and Mason have already landed jobs this year. So, so far, so good. And to make it more fun for you and for everyone that I helped land a job, hopefully you, I'm going to give you a prize when you land a job. I'm going to highlight you on a billboard in Times Square. And yes, you heard me right. Just a huge billboard of your face in the Big Apple. Just like I did with my student Aaron Sheena here, who landed a job last year. We're going to tell your story and share your success with the entire world. So if you want your picture and your story up in the bright lights of Times Square, and honestly, if you want to ruin me financially, because let's be honest, billboards in Times Square, they aren't exactly cheap. Listen up because here are the five main ways I'm going to help you. Atlanta data job this year. Number one, I will post thousands of data jobs. I run a data job board called find the data job. com. And every day I post about 30 to 50 different data jobs on it. These are jobs that my team and I find online that aren't exactly the jobs you'd find on say Indeed or LinkedIn jobs. They're all on company websites, which just as a side note. That is the best place to apply. And there's a search filter, location, filters, a remote filter, and even salary filters. And the best part is it's a hundred percent free and it will stay free. This website actually costs me money to run every single day. So please just do me a favor. And just use it, go to find a job. com right now in your browser and just bookmark it and use the crap out of it because whether you use it or not, I'm paying for it. And so I would at least rather have it help people. If it's going to cost me money, I'm telling you it's free and it's good. I also run two other job boards. One is a sports analytics job board, which is called sports analytics jobs. com. I know I'm very original with my names. So if you enjoy sports and analytics, like I do check this one out, we post data related jobs for athletic related organizations, all over the world, professional teams, college teams, media, anything you can kind of think of in the sports realm or post. The other one is called premium data jobs. com, which warning it is a paid service, but we find you special data jobs that are. So specifically for you, we find fresh jobs that have low candidates that always have someone you can reach out to and actually cold message. So that way you have a foot in the door already. I recently made an episode explaining this more in detail. So I'll be sure to include that in the show notes down below. So you can check it out if you're interested. Number two, I'm going to publish 52 action packed new episodes, whether you're listening to the audio version of this podcast or you're watching the video version on YouTube. Every Tuesday, I publish an information packed episode. That will help you grow your data career in just a few minutes. Sometimes it's a solo show like this, where I pick a topic that I think all of my students could use some insight on, but other times I interviewed the best of the best data experts in the entire world, people like Zach Wilson, Alex, the analyst. Stat Quest or Cole Afflic, just to name a few. Either way, no matter what, every Tuesday you'll be learning something valuable in each episode and something that you can actually act on. I hate when educators and teachers just give you the theory I'm all about, give me tangible application and execution theory is great, but only two justify the means. These episodes have one goal and one goal alone help you in your data career. Number three, I'm going to be sharing free educational content. Every day, every day, you'll find me typing up a LinkedIn post for the 130, 000 of you that follow me over there. That's not going to stop anytime soon. So make sure you go find me on LinkedIn right now. Hit the follow button and the bell icon so you don't miss anything. Once again, I try to post applicable things that you can actually do today to land a data job more quickly. No fluff, no crap, just helpful things. Also be posting more on my Instagram this year, which I'm really excited about. A lot of it will be behind the scenes stuff and stuff that maybe I don't post on LinkedIn. Also, if you are watching on YouTube, I post a lot on the YouTube community page, and I encourage all of you guys to go take a look at that and to leave a comment there as well, because I'm trying to personally respond to every single comment I get on my. YouTube community page. And lastly, I do have a Tik Tok, but at the time of recording, it's not really clear whether that's staying or going inside the United States. It's kind of up in the air. So if Tik Tok still around, go follow me there. But if not, don't worry, whatever social media platform you use, you'll find it in the description down below and you can go follow me there. And I'd love to hear from all of you. Okay. Next number four. I'm doubling down on my weekly newsletter. Every Wednesday, I send out the data career newsletter. This is where I highlight the most important lesson of the week. I do giveaways, I provide the data job of the week, and I share other helpful musings. It's usually pretty short and simple. It takes way less than five minutes to read. And honestly, I think everything that I'm teaching in there, I'm giving in there will save you hours of time in your data journey. So if you aren't subscribed, go join the 15, 000 other aspiring data professionals. And subscribe, it's a hundred percent free. And lastly, number five, I'll continue running the accelerator program. Now as a heads up, this is a paid program, but honestly, it's quite a bit more affordable than most other bootcamps. If you didn't know, I run a bootcamp. It's called the data analytics accelerator, and it's literally helped hundreds of people land their first data job. It's a 12 week program designed around my SPN method. That actually helps you land a data job. Of course, we teach the skills, but we also help you build projects and help grow your network. We teach you Excel, Tableau, SQL, Python, R, and Power BI by helping you do real projects with sales, healthcare, education, sports, manufacturing, financial, and HR data. All real data sets from the wild. We help you with your LinkedIn and your resume as well as job hunting. Plus we have live office hours every single week and a community that you can literally post in 24 seven. This has been the vehicle that has driven many to landing their first day at a job and that will stay true this year as well. So if you've been subscribed to my channel for a while, you've probably seen just a fraction of our awesome success stories like Trevor Maxwell going from a printer technician with no college degree to business analyst, or Alex Sanchez going from a high school teacher to data analyst at seven 11, or maybe Aaron Sheena, who was a music therapist and now is a financial analyst at a fortune 50 company. This program gets proven results and I'm excited to keep leading it in 2025. If you're interested in learning more, be sure to check out the show notes down below. Now, of course, with all this being said, if I help you land a data job at any point this year, please let me know. You can just send me an email averyatdatacareerjumpster. com and let me know. And as your prize, I will highlight you on your own personal billboard in Times Square. I promise there's not gonna be other people. It's just you. And literally Times Square. There's no catches about this. I'll pay for the whole thing. But before any of that, I actually need your help. If I'm going to pull this whole thing off this mission 52, I'm not going to be able to do it alone. I'm going to need your help to get the word out. Hitting subscribe, leaving a comment or resharing any of my content is a really simple and easy way. That you can help mission 52, it literally costs you nothing and it takes you less than 30 seconds. So thank you already for helping out this mission. And I want to make sure I stay accountable to literally the thousands of you who are listening right now. So I'll be documenting this entire mission, this entire journey in public. If I fail, you will know, which is scary. I'm very scared about that, but I want to share the reality that you can land a data job this year. Even in today's market, you can do it. And so you can watch the progress of these 52 individuals. In three different places. Number one, I'll have a website dedicated to Mission 52. It's going to be datacrewjumpstart. com slash mission, and I'll update that periodically. Number two, I'll talk about the progress periodically in my newsletter, about once a month. So you can stay tuned to the newsletter to get the updates there. And number three, I'll be sharing the highlights of this Mission 52 on my Instagram story so you can follow there. So please follow this mission and share with your friends. We can do this, I think.