JOHN DOE

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WORK EXPERIENCE
Company Name State, Country
Job Title Mon Year - Mon Year
● Each bullet should stand on its own, not exceed two lines and answer the questions - what is the business problem,
what was the technical solution built (be detailed), and what was the quantitative impact on business.
● For large projects that cannot be detailed in a single two-lined bullet break the content into different aspects - one
bullet for feature engineering, one for modelling, one for explainability, etc. - each still following the former format.
● Each bullet must start with an action word (examples in next page) which are ideally technical (Developed/Analyzed) in
nature for an entry-level DS resume, and more collaborative for higher-level roles (Spearheaded/Architected).
● (Example) Mapped application logs to a Finite State Machine and used Bayesian networks to help identify root-cause
(accuracy ~YY%) of application errors, reducing issue resolution time by ~XX%.
● When projects/work experience lead to publication/patent, instead of listing them separately, mention it within your
bullet to save space and allow a reviewer to save time to assess the impact of your projects.
● (Example) Implemented an ensemble model (Logistic Regression, XGBoost, and SVM) to predict (accuracy ~XX%) and
issues in order processing thereby improving customer NPS score by YY% (Patent Approved US10713706B1).
Job Title Mon Year - Mon Year
● For entry level roles, create multiple version of your resume based on how diversity in technical skills is. E.g. one
resume that is heavy on NLP project, another on forecasting etc. Use the most apt resume when asking for referrals.
● (Example for forecasting) Experimented with ETS, ARIMA, Prophet, DeepAR for forecasting volumes of Ring product
sales to allow the business to proactively work with payment vendors. Achieved MAPE of ~X% with the SARIMA model.
● For mid/senior-role, create different resume based on different business domains you have worked in. E.g. one
resume focusing on supply chain, one on retail, another maybe on product analytics etc.
● (Example for supply chain) Led 5 developers across sales, fulfillment, and delivery teams to develop a Hadoop ETL
pipeline and an XGBRegressor that improved accuracy of Estimated Delivery Date (EDD) by ~XX% and NPS by YY%
● Mix in engineering-related work (scaling/operation excellence/MLOps), either within your project or as stand-alone
bullets. For DS/ML roles, engineering work can be on lighter side, around 15-20% of your bullets.
● (Example) Developed CI/CD pipelines and Operational Excellence guidelines (testing, code/science reviews,
monitoring) for deploying models on AWS (using AWS Lambda, ECR, SageMaker) reducing time to production by ~XX%.
PROJECTS
Project Title [Optional] Affiliation
● For projects also continue to follow the first central tenant - “Each bullet should stand on its own..” , but instead of
business quantitative impact compare your work to the state-of-the-art (SOTA) work in that field.
● (Example) Suggestion Mining: Developed a Shared Parameter LSTM with adversarial loss and orthogonality constraints
to leverage multitask learning for detecting suggestions in Amazon reviews. (F1 score 0.78, equaling SOTA). [GitHub]
EDUCATION
College Name State, Country
Name of Degree, [Optional] Specialization | [Optional] GPA: X Mon Year - Mon Year
Courses: <Mention coursework such that they are likely to match with keywords in the job posting>
SKILLS
Competencies: Add DS/ML model/concepts based on your skillset and keywords in job posting. Take the time to edit this
section, as it improves the chances of getting a callback (See next page of top competencies to mention)
Programming Languages: Comma-separate list in order of competency. E.g. Python, SQL, C
Tools/Frameworks: Comma-separate list in order of your competency e.g. PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, AWS
ACTION WORDS

Analyzed Engineered Evaluated Established Deployed Monitored

Implemented Optimized Resolved Enhanced Modeled Integrated
Developed Automated Spearheaded Innovated Investigated Streamlined
Architected Designed Collaborated Leveraged Validated Utilized

COMPETENCIES
I have divided the competencies into five section based on my experience working in the industry thus far and working
with mentees. This is not a comprehensive list.
Only use those that are relevant for the role you are applying! Tweak them based on the job posting. For instance, if the
job posting mentioned “Regression Analysis” instead of “Linear Regression” then use “Regression Analysis” (given you
know it)
The bolded ones are a “always good to have” type of skills.

Basic ML NLP ReSys Forecasting Others

Linear Regression Text Processing Aprior Algorithm ETS/Exponential Ensemble Learning
Logistic Regression LSTM Collaborative Filtering Smoothing Hypothesis Testing
Decision Trees GRU Matrix Factorization ARIMA/SARIMA/ A/B Testing
Random Forests Transformers SVD SARIMAX Isolation Forests
Support Vector Word Embedding Two-tower NNs Prophet/ Local Outlier Factor
Machines (Word2Vec, BERT) NeuralProphet Partial Dependence
K-Means Clustering GPT DeepAR Plots
Gradient Boosted Generative AI Individual Conditional
Machines Expectation
Principal Component LIME
Analysis SHAP

TOOLS/FRAMEWORKS

PySpark Pandas Tableau Airflow

PyTorch Numpy AWS Github/Git
Keras StatsModels GCP Kubernetes
TensorFlow Matplotlib Azure Kafka
Sklearn Seaborn Docker

COMMON BUSINESS METRICS

These can be used to articulate the business impact you had, primarily in the retail domain. However, it can help you get
started in other domains as well.
Remember, from the perspective of a hiring manager they are looking for data scientist who understand that their
responsibility it to deliver business impact, not be just a technical-expert who knows a ton of models. So spend time
understanding what the impact of your projects were.

Conversion Rate User Engagement Churn Rate Customer Acquisition Cost

Click-Through Rate Net Promoter Score (NPS) Perfect Order Index Retention Rate
Revenue Per User (ARPU) Customer Satisfaction Customer Life Time Value Time to Conversion
Average Order Value (CSAT) Score Cost Per Mile (CPM)
Gross Margin