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The Upcoming Big Thing – Career in Data Science

A field that did not even exist 10 years back, Data Science is projected to grow in demand by 48% by the year 2030 (Source: IBM Study). In its 2017 U.S Emerging Jobs report, LinkedIn ranked Machine Learning Engineers, Data Scientists and Big Data Engineers among the top emerging jobs (which have grown by up to 650% since 2012).

With such big growth numbers related with it, Data Science as a field is popping many heads in the technology and business spaces.

Big Data, Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Data Science are the big buzzwords doing the round these days and you’d have surely have heard them at least once. So what is all this hype about? What are the differences between them? And is Data Science a good career option?

So let’s first understand what these fields are all about and then delve into the career opportunities, path and the skills required to be successful in this domain.

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What are the Career Options in Science?

If you’re a Science student, this can probably be one of the top questions that has been thrust upon you regularly. You’d have concluded that either there are sole two roads ahead that mattered i.e. Engineering and Medicine, or that there is no other option available within the field of Science.
Here we shall see that both these claims are wrong. But then why is everybody stressing on these two branches in particular?
Science may be a very vast field of study with many categories and sub-categories. The 2 branches, engineering and medicine, simply encompass the main sections that come under Science.
It is possible that you simply have felt repulsed from the 2 options due to their being too mainstream. Maybe you don’t want to flow with the tide. Maybe you would like to try to do something different and not choose what every other kid in your class goes for.
But maybe you are feeling so because you haven’t properly delved into what engineering and medicine are all about.

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How to choose a best Career Counsellor?

Call any Career Counsellor for consultation and undoubtedly, he will leave no stone unturned to prove that he is the best Career Counsellor in India. Moreover, at the time, you are confused, you are already surrounded by questions in your mind – What after 10th or what after 12th or what after completing graduation. Career counselling is the solution which can assists you to answer these questions in your career. But choosing a career counsellor is not at all easy and at times can be very tricky. For you, choosing the right career is a matter of life, whereas for a career counsellor, it’s a profession. One wrong move and you end up in a mess. Moreover, there is no option to reverse it. So, it is very important, how you narrow down on a career counsellor. Some of the factors to be considered for the same are:

1) Unbiased Guidance – Career Counselling is a business! You may find people offering free career counselling to you but their revenue model is such that they earn via referrals through admissions in various colleges. Needless to mention, such career counsellors will recommend colleges/Universities in India and abroad from where they get referral benefit. So always remember that a right Career Counsellor is one, who follows an unbiased approach.

2) Practical Knowledge & Understanding – There shall always remain a difference between theoretical / google based information and practical / experiential learning. There are lot of factors in experiential learning – getting older doesn’t mean that you have grown up as well. Hence, age is no bar for a career counsellor, what matters is diversified interaction and intent to learn. Other factors include Educational Qualification of career counsellor, collective team experience of career counselling organization, their aptitude, ability and intent to connect, empathize and foresee, everything matters.

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