Set goals to this course & commit

What your key facts biography tell you about directions to explore and paths to get there

Conscious Pivot- Immediate career goals, critical steps to take, gaps to address

DISC- (task/ppl oriented) (fast/mod pace), (perceive yourself to be more/less powerful than the environment)

Use it to adapt your working style with different DISC (you can't change others, only yourself)

Your personal brand=strengths & expertise+personal values

Duplicate a copy and change the setting to 'secret'.

Now you have a private online learning journal! Enjoy!

Complete IU1.1 e-learning.

Complete Casey Bot Simulation (hirequotient email)

In uncertainty (info & goal asymmetry), how do you piece together info and harness different expertise to make a good decision?

How to address challenges? Psychological safety (withhold judgement: "yes and", devil's advocate), Clarify interdependencies, Structure (align CG, open sharing)

What is the BDA market landscape?

Chart your career path: Highlight competencies in your industry of interest (IMDA Skills Framework), Shortlist roles & target skills

Action Plan: Stepping stone approach

Define the problem (SCQ: I..but..so what can I do to...?) Asking the right qn: sufficiently broad but not jumping into solutioning.

Reframe: Think in new boxes

Hypothesis Tree: MECE (best guess to be adapted), Avoid rigorous analysis (focused, specific, quantify early)

Create Workplan, Prioritise tasks (quick wins, big wins-impact vs effort)

Synthesise findings into insights (So what?)

Storyline (SCSI, "Tell them": Situation, Sol+Substantiate, Summary+Impact)

Build deck (title=key msg)

Present findings (Top down/ Bottom up: recommend & substantiate) 4L delivery: understand msg (what's II for me? clear opening) believes (logic, evi) remembers (eg, anec, visuals, summary) inspired (energy, connect)

Make decisions, Take actions

How to network effectively

How to create an elevator pitch (where you're coming from, where you are right now, where you are going)

Focus on building job-specific skills that you do not possess- through internship, extra learning or passion projects.

Amend your SMART goals to keep them relevant 1-3 years from now. (Have a timeline)

Be conscious of ATS-use common fonts and include keywords from JD in your CV.

Create a digital portfolio on Github.

CV workshop: Executive summary, Skills, Role & Achievements (projects, metrics, how you have created solutions)

Select 'text file' option for CSV

Live (Excel, CSV) VS Extract(Google file) connection

Worksheet: single page to create visualisations, Dashboard: multiple worksheets & visuals, Story: Combination of worksheet & dashboard

Pages: Animation, Filter: remove unwanted data, Marks: Format visuals

Dimensions (Categorical/ Textual) vs Measures (Numeric/Values/ Aggregation)

Line Discrete Vs Continuous chart

Drag 'no of graduates' to filter out null, Right click to convert to measures, Press control and select table

Upload the extracted data to public server and create link to share, option not to download data, only pdf/ppt

Connection btw data-relationship noodle

Right click 'open' to join 2 data

Avoid duplication- ch measures to dimen/avg

Join, blending, union(blue=left T,orange=right T)

Bullet Chart/ Analysis>Stack marks OFF/Ctrl & drag/Patient ID>Count Distinct

Heat Map(Day, Month, Colour no. of visits)

Group (Ctr and choose categories on bar chart to grp)

Create calculated field (click on arrow)

Box Plot-Box & whiskers to find outliers

Histogram (quick T cal>compute using cell)

Dual Axis (synchronise axis)

Combi Chart

Create dashboard & story

Transform Data> Power Query

Remove rows> remove errors/ blank/ duplicates

Transform>Rename/ Fill up, fill down/ Split column by delimiter/ Merge/ Extract

Right click on column> Change type/ Transform function

Close & Apply

Visualisation> Bar Chart (Drag & drop to edit data shown in tooltip) > Line Chart

Settings>Security>Use Map & Fill Visual

Format your page (change theme)> Format your visual

Create hierarchy (turn on drill mode)

Types of charts downloaded from 'other visualizations'

Comparing Values: Bullet chart, heat map, funnel chart, waterfall chart, tornado chart, key influencer*

'Analyse' function is useful in comparing key influencers of minutes to service. Top segments create clusters for analysis. Apply filter for clarity of results.

Visualizing Trends: Area chart, stacked bar chart, ribbon chart, spark lines, adding trend lines

Comparing Proportions: Pie chart, donut chart, tree map, stacked area chart, mekko chart

Visualizing Distributions: Box & Whiskers, Violin Plot, Histograms, Strip Plots

Visualizing Multiple Axes: Scatter plot, line & stacked/ clustered column chart

Selected value function+slicer allow for dynamic dashboards

For sharing: Publish to server & share/ Export as PDF