Jen Vaughan will walk you through readying yourself to apply for jobs using Tableau. From what to look for in a candidate, resume and how to gain a competitive edge.

2. Career in Data Using Tableau
Tableau Fringe Festival 2016
Jen Vaughan
#TFFJen

6. Know Thy Self
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator

10. IT + Tableau = Tableau Jen
• Human Resources Management
• Management Information Systems
• Program Management
• Admin IT (Finance, Security, RE&F)
• HRIT
• Tableau
• Tableau Product Consultant
• BI Analyst/Developer/Engineer
• Server Administrator
• Accredited Tableau Trainer
• Tableau Social Ambassador

11. Main Helping Points
• What does a career using Tableau look like?
• How to prepare for an interview?
• How do I get to know, really know Tableau?
#TFFJen

12. Who are You?
1. Technical aptitude
2. Curiosity for data
3. Ability to Learn and adapt
4. Know basic SQL

13. Job Title: search Open Listings for ‘Tableau’
• Business Analyst
• Data Analyst
• Reporting Analyst
• System Analyst
• BI/Tableau Analyst
• BI/Tableau Developer
• BI Engineer
• Data Scientist

14. ‘Reporting analyst’
• Develop new reports and
revise existing reports
including automation of
reports.
• Respond to requests for
custom reports, queries,
data extracts or ad hoc
reports in a timely manner.
• Train internal and external
stakeholders on
new/revised reports.
Skills needed:
• Extensive skill in
report development,
documentation,
testing and
deployment
• Data visualization
skills
Healthcare Management Administrators - Bellevue, WA

15. ‘Principal Data Scientist’
• Lead applied analytics
initiatives: research,
design, implement and
validate algorithms to
analyze diverse sources of
data to achieve targeted
outcomes. Monitor,
analyze, and iterate to
continuously improve.
Required:
• Deep understanding of
statistical, predictive
and descriptive
modeling concepts,
machine-learning
approaches, clustering
and classification
techniques, and
recommendation and
optimization
algorithms.
Nintendo - Redmond, WA

17. Tech Skills to have
• Excel (Pivot)
• Write queries and fetch data from MS-SQL, Oracle and Teradata
• Tableau, PowerBI, other visualization tools
• Modeling - Root cause analysis, behavioral analysis
“Analytical dexterity and excellent communication skills are critical to
success in this position. “
-T-Mobile: Sr. BI Analyst, Req 59908BR

18. Bonus Points
• Knowledge of Alteryx
• Statistical analysis experience using SAS or R
• Javascript
• C, C++, Java, Python

19. Getting to Know Tableau
• Social media
• Tableau User Groups
• Tableau hosted events (virtual/local)
• Think Data Thursday
• On-demand training videos
• Tableau Zen Masters
• Join the Community!

20. Interviewing Toolkit
• Passion
• Know Tableau
• Demo
• Product Line
• Read Gartner research
• Tell Story
• Tableau Public

21. 3 C’s to Learning Data Visualization
1. Courses for free – Tableau On-demand and free online college
courses
2. Coding
• https://www.khanacademy.org/
• https://www.codecademy.com/
3. Certificates
• Continuing Education courses
• Certified by Tableau

25. Growing your Network
• Industry – Professional, collegiate
• Tableau – Open Houses, Conference, Community forum, User Groups
• Data – Meetups, User Groups
• Volunteer – Of interest

26. Become Certifiably Tableau
• Desktop
• Qualified Associate
• Professional
• Server
• Qualified Associate
• Professional
• Train-the-Trainer
• Desktop
• Server

27. Appendix

28. #TFF16 Participant Titles
• Consulting Analyst
• Sr Data Analyst
• Director, Data Visualization
• Director, Analytics