What the title says, really. I’m in the the job market because my current job is a chaotic awful mess and our pay raises are not at all in line with inflation. I’ve done so many job interviews this year where I get interviewed by people in HR who don’t know the first thing about what data scientists do. Today I was asked to describe my years of experience with “this software on [your] resume called … data …mining??” (not my experience WITH data mining, they seemed to think I was using some program called Data Mining.) I also feel like i keep getting questions that are the equivalent of “oh so you like legend of Zelda? Name ALL the games!”, just change that to “you say you’re a data scientist? Name every data!” or something.
I just get thrown because I love talking about my work but shouldn’t the person interviewing me have some idea of what my work entails? I also keep interviewing for contract work where the HR person has no idea what project I’d be working on so I have no idea how to explain the ways i’m suited to that work.
No one wants to work? No one wants to apply to jobs? How about the management class has no idea how to evaluate the right people even when they’re right on their doorstep. ETA: and I might not even BE the right person and I totally accept that! But I want it to be because I’m not sufficiently skilled in Python versus the interviewer not even realizing I’m qualified for the job because I failed to use the terms they were told to listen out for.
I’m gonna do research on how to better present myself during this stage of interviews but it’s such a fucking pain how many social cues you have to learn to have a hope at succeeding. You shouldn’t need the fucking Rosetta stone to decipher corporate-ese.