Personal project portfolio

Junior data scientists will likely come from the intern and co-op participant pool. Hiring people for full-time roles who have spent time with the analytics team and have been exposed to the broader organization is a much better way to hire full-time staff as compared to the traditional hiring process, especially in such a heated and frothy market as the data science market is today and looks to be in the foreseeable future.

If junior staff members do come from the intern and co-op participant ranks, then you understand their hard and soft skills and you know what they can and cannot do well. You, and they, understand the team dynamics and type of work and the cadence that is expected from them and the team. The ramp-up time to productivity is shorter and less time-consuming.

Junior members of the advanced analytics and AI team should be expected to undertake one main project and one or two service requests, to engage with the Community of Practice...