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Ways to Distinguish yourself in the Big Data

job market

Do’s and Don’ts during interviewsWhat Big Data Recruiters / Hiring Mgr.’s are

looking for in resumes and interviews.

Some BD positions*

Our focus is on Big Data opportunities Vendors like: Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR,

SAP Their customers and partners:

Oil and Gas: (VERY large petroleum company) Service Providers to Auto and Ins.: (Agero, etc.) Social Media: (Match.com, etc.) Partners: (nVent, etc.) Government: (Civilian and Defense Depts.)

CareerPlanners Services Inc.

• Have a positive attitude!!!• There are lot’s of smart

people looking for jobs with casual attitudes.

• Why is the position open?• Differentiate yourself

• Self-improvement through training• Companies expect this

• Learn from criticism

• No long resume loaded with buzzwords (3-4 pages max!)

• Be yourself

• Know the job’s skill requirements• “Must have…”• “Nice to have…”

• Demonstrate effort• Don’t always look for short-

cuts• Build clusters from

scratch

• At the end, tell the interviewer that:• You can do the job!• You can start in their

timeframe!• You are within their budget!• You REALLY want the job!

Basic Interview(Prep)

• Technical interviews can be long• Eat something prior

• Demonstrate effort• Don’t always look for

short-cuts• Build clusters from

scratch• Participate in LI

Groups, Meetups, etc.

• Are you will to travel?• Be flexible

• Do you truly support Open Source?

Good recruiters will know what to expect:

• Online code review?• White boarding?• Build a prototypes based on

specs• Types of questions to be

asked:• Situational• Basics: “When to use

Hadoop and not relational data stores”…

• Detailed: “What happens when a datanode fails?”…

• How strong is your Java?• “It needs to be stronger.”

Big Data Interview(Prep)

Resumes: Runaway resumes Using JUST Buzzwords Employment dates that don’t match up Misspellings Grammatical errors

Join and participate in relevant online communities. Like: LinkedIn (Groups), GitHub, Google Code, WANdisco, etc

Watch what you say – social network / online communities!

Mgr’s and (good) recruiters monitor your online activity.

Pay Attention to:

Professional Services Hadoop Development (Cloudera, HWX, MapR or

HDInsight, etc.) Hadoop Infrastructure Admin Architects

Specialty Technologies Streaming (Cascading, Spark, Storm, InfoSphere

Streams, etc.) ETL & Data Pipeline Development (Data Warehouses) Analytics Security

Opportunities

Bob Kelly bkelly@cpsi-tech.com

Kim Kelly kkelly@cpsi-tech.com

(561) 745-6945 - O (561) 909-9709 – C Twitter: @CareerPlanners LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/careerplanners

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