Cathy Colson, Author at Dataspace

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Too many resumes? How to navigate the surge of applicants for data science roles.

04/15/2025

In the current economic climate, hiring managers face an unprecedented influx of applications for any open role. Companies today receive far more resumes than in the past. Ben Taub, CEO of Dataspace, explains that this trend is driven by two main factors: an extremely competitive technology job market as organizations cut back after bulking up […]

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Sh%t you shouldn’t have to deal with when hiring data talent: fraudulent resumes.

10/15/2024

Recruiting for data science roles in the digital era is not for the faint of heart. Over the past couple of decades, resume fraud has grown distressingly ubiquitous. With so many recruiters relying (perhaps a bit too heavily) on applicant tracking systems (ATS) to screen candidates, unscrupulous job seekers have adapted, using techniques, such as

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How we spent our summer: things to do during the slower months for data science recruiting.

08/20/2024

It’s that time of year in Ann Arbor when the leaves start to look a bit less green. When it’s a little harder to get a table downtown on a Friday night. When every store is reminding you of “Back to School Savings” on lots of stuff that nobody really needs in the first place.

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Data Engineer: He builds the systems used for data analysis.

Meet the Data Engineer: He builds the systems that support data and analytics

12/14/2022

To close out our series on data and analytics roles and why they are important to business, we’re going to explore the position of data engineer. Unlike data analysts, who focus on understanding business data, or data scientists, who leverage data to make business predictions, data engineers have an entirely different focus. In our introductory

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The Data Scientist predicts your business success.

Meet the Data Scientist: She can predict your business success with data

09/28/2022

We’ve been exploring the three major areas of data and analytics roles common to the modern data team. In our last post, we took a deep dive into the different types of data analysts out there—all tasked with describing the current state of a business. Similar to data analysts, data scientists collect and analyze business

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The Data Analyst: I tell you what's going on.

Meet the Data Analyst: She will help you understand your business data

08/16/2022

In our post laying out the major analytics roles, data scientist, data engineer, and data analyst, we said that… In the broadest sense, a data analyst takes the data collected by a business and uses it to describe what’s going on. These days, taking care of business means dealing with lots and lots of data.

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Things to stop to recruit top data talent.

Everything you’re doing to recruit top data talent is wrong

05/18/2022

Wondering what the heck is going on with hiring these days? Why are there so many data-focused job openings and so few applicants? Why are your best candidates ghosting you? The job of recruiting is really a job of marketing and sales. As the recruiter, you’re working to convince your customer (i.e. a candidate) to

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Data Team Roles: Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Scientist

Data roles and what they do for your business

03/09/2022

If you’re trying to build out a great data team in your company, you’ve probably noticed that there are lots (and lots and lots) of analytics and data roles out there. And so many of those data job titles sound confusingly similar. it can be hard to make sense of it all, even if you’re

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2021 Trends in Data Hiring report and what it means for 2022

02/03/2022

Last year we decided that, as a data science focused staffing and recruiting company, it only made sense to look at our own numbers for some insight on the data hiring market. We had noticed some shifts in the requests we were receiving and wanted to understand why—and see if that understanding could help us

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Data Science Job Boards Roundup

12/16/2021

Are you making a 2022 new year’s resolution to advance your career in data science, data engineering, or data analytics? Yay you! We can assure you there are tons of data-focused job opportunities out there, and that number is only growing. At Dataspace, we’ve posted 24% more data jobs in 2021 than our previous top

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