Entry to Senior-Level: Data career development

AI Guild members only: Companies are urgently seeking qualified and experienced data professionals. Are you ready to advance your career?

This workshop is for you if...

• You have 3 months to 3 years of experience in Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, and MLOps.
• You want to fast-track career development to the Senior Level.
• You want support in navigating your career. We are diverse, fight discrimination, and help to break the glass ceiling.

Your workshop outcome is

1. Clarity on the data role and domain that suits you best.
2. Career development for the next 12 months.
3. A Validated Skills Profile for your promotion.

Pay-what-you-want Principle: Pay €0 if you want, or contribute anything up to €100.- to pay forward and fund more workshops.

Proof-of-concept

The AI Guild has offered career development since 2020, supporting practitioners online and in person. We have worked with startups and corporates to define data roles and build teams.

The AI Guild has pioneered Accreditation, the Competency Profile, and the Skills Profile for data practitioners to have more impact.

You can learn more on the Medium publication 'Fluent in Data.'

Workshop outline

10:00 Doors open: Coffee and drinks (buy your own).

10.30 The Care & Feeding of Data Practitioners: Job descriptions and career paths in the 2020s.

10.50 Ten examples of Skills Profiles and career advances.

11.30 Networking: Please introduce a fellow practitioner using the LinkedIn profile.

12.00 Coffee break

12.15 Technical skills: You interview a fellow practitioner to draft a technical profile.

13:00 Business skills: Write down examples of your business skills.

13:30 Lunch

14.30 Migration, discrimination, the glass ceiling: Support in navigating common issues on the way to the top.

15:15 Individual work on your Skills Profile.

16.00 Coffee break

16.15 Inspiration: Competency Profiles of Seniors, Leads, and Principals.

16.45 Review and finalizing of the Skills Profile.

17.15 Wrap up.

Workshop organizer

Chris Armbruster, Director, AI Guild. Over the past 6 years, Chris has supported 1000+ practitioners in starting and advancing a data career.

AI Guild

2500+ Specialists: The AI Guild is Europe’s leading practitioner community in Data Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Computer Vision, and MLOps.