From the course: Get a Remote Data Science Job (2020)

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Building your GitHub portfolio

Building your GitHub portfolio

From the course: Get a Remote Data Science Job (2020)

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Building your GitHub portfolio

- One important way to impress potential employers is to showcase that you have the required technical skills for the job. A common way to accomplish this is by having a GitHub portfolio of your work. An underrated aspect of this is that it gives you an opportunity to build transferable skills for data science take-home assignments and case studies. In this video, I'll share with you some ways your GitHub projects can strengthen your case for employment. First, you can have many projects on GitHub. But consider which projects you wouldn't mind having a link to on your resume. Especially for remote jobs, where the interview process often involves screen sharing, a project on GitHub gives you the ability to show potential employers what you can do instead of just telling them you can do something. If you want a job where the skills required involve exploratory data analysis, statistics, machine learning, deep learning, et…

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