Speaking to recruiters on linkedin in the area you're interested in can sometimes be helpful. Try to get feedback on your applications (often they don't respond but some do). Speak to your uni careers service (the quality of which varies between unis) and also get in touch with lecturers/staff. This is exactly how I got my first job and they may have contacts in industry and refer you. Worth firing off an email imo. I also lost count on the amount of applications I submitted. Unfortunately my main solution was to get a masters as a lot of roles (as you mention) required it. I understand that's not particularly helpful to you. Sometimes these things take time. It sucks, I know and can be disheartening when you send hundreds of applications and either hear nothing back or get rejected. I've had quite a few where I heard nothing for months and then suddenly they rang and wanted an interview. Don't give up! More on reddit.com

Those “entry level data analyst jobs” have people with masters degrees in statistics, data analytics, and yes, data science applying for them. People need to stop thinking that data is a fall back career that you can just idly wander into. It’s smarmy af.

That aside… if you can look at a posting and say “I am undeniably qualified.” Have at it! There’s more than enough advice in this and the analytics sub. But if you’re walking into an interview and thinking you’re going to compete just on charm, desire, and a couple meaningful years of part time experience… it’s going to be rough in this market.

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I work in gaming industry. My responsibility is to find bots in our MMORPG games. As our model response to the game server with the bot probability for each user in real-time, we need to meet the criteria of high inference speed and precision/recall. More on reddit.com

What’s your background / qualifications ?

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