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143: The Secret Job Market That No One Is Talking About (Ultimate LinkedIn Hack!)
Episode 14314th January 2025 • Data Career Podcast: Helping You Land a Data Analyst Job FAST • Avery Smith - Data Career Coach
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Are you tired of applying to job after job on LinkedIn only to hear absolutely nothing? Today I share the secret LinkedIn hack-- learn how the top 1% find fresh data roles and network directly with hiring managers, how to skip the oversaturated jobs tab, and dive into the ultimate guide to finding untouched opportunities.

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00:00 - Introduction

01:46 - Think Like the Top 1% of Job Seekers

03:22 - Step-by-Step Guide to Accessing Hidden Jobs

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Avery:

Are you tired of applying to job after job on LinkedIn

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only to hear absolutely nothing?

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But what if I told you there's a

hidden job market on LinkedIn that

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almost no one is talking about?

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It's a secret method that could help you

find the best data jobs with way less

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competition and actually connect with real

people like hiring managers and recruiters

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who can help you land an interview.

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In this episode, I'm going to show

you the ultimate LinkedIn hack.

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That gives you the inside track

to the jobs that you actually want

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faster and smarter than everyone else.

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So buckle up, hit subscribe,

and let's dive in.

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And just a quick side note, if you're

listening to the audio podcast version

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of this episode, keep listening,

but you also might want to check out

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the YouTube video as well so you can

get the step by step instructions.

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All right, so if you're looking

for a job, you are probably doing

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what 99 percent of people do when

they hop on LinkedIn to find a job.

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You're going to head straight

for the jobs tab, right?

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That's intuitive enough.

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That makes sense.

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Simple.

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Well, here's the problem.

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Everyone is doing that.

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And within hours, those

job posts have 100.

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Two hundred, five hundred, a thousand

applicants fighting for the same role.

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It's basically like throwing

your resume into a black hole.

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The odds of getting noticed, pretty slim.

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So if you're just scrolling through

LinkedIn's regular job board,

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you're going to miss out on the best

opportunities, the ones that you

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actually might land an interview from.

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Because you're competing with way

too many people, and by the time

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you apply, it's already flooded

with hundreds of applicants.

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Alright Avery, well that's depressing,

so what should we do, should we

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just get depressed and give up?

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Should we sit back and complain about how

tough the market is, and how oversaturated

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LinkedIn is, and how we're never ever

going to stand out and never land a job?

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No, that's a terrible mindset.

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We need to just Think

different and act different.

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We need to act like the top 1 percent

of job seekers because they are thinking

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differently and more importantly, they're

acting differently than the rest of us.

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They're really proactive and they

know that they need to find jobs that

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are fresh, that are recently posted

and have fewer applicants because

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then it's way easier to stand out.

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But most importantly, they know that

it's important to make sure that they can

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find someone That they can network with.

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Someone who can help them open the

door and help them land an interview.

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This is how they're landing the

best roles while all the rest of us,

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unfortunately, are stuck down here

in the rat race for the same old job

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postings competing with one another.

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It's frustrating.

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Because here's the thing, the

top 1 percent of job seekers

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aren't just scrolling through the

regular job board on LinkedIn.

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No, they're looking at something

much different than the rest of us.

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They're looking at a hidden

job board, one that's not only

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difficult to access, But actually

pretty tricky to navigate as well.

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It's a bit like a secret treasure map

that not a whole lot of people know about.

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There's a lot of effort to

actually get to the treasure.

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But once you get there, it's amazing.

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Because here's the kicker.

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The jobs that you find on the hidden

job market are like, Pure gold.

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It's like striking oil or finding

treasure in your own backyard.

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These roles are roles that haven't been

flooded with hundreds of applicants.

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They're fresh.

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They're untouched.

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And best of all, they come with the

opportunity to actually connect with

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the people behind the job posting.

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I'm talking recruiter.

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I'm talking hiring manager.

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So how do you and I access

this hidden job market?

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Let me go ahead and show you.

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So open up LinkedIn and you're

going to be tempted to go and

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click on the jobs tab, right?

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Because that's where the

jobs are, but don't click it.

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Instead, go to the search bar right

here, type in the phrase hiring, and

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then whatever role you're looking for.

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In this case, data analyst.

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Press enter.

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From here, once again, you're kind of

on a weird in between page on LinkedIn.

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You're going to be tempted to

click the jobs because that's

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what you're looking for.

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Don't.

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Instead, click posts.

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After clicking on posts, you

have to click one more thing, and

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that is the sort by the latest.

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Show results.

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What this is doing is scouring all of

LinkedIn, all of the posts, and looking

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for the phrase hiring data analysts.

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For any matches, we are showing

the most recent here on this page.

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Now there's going to be a

lot on this page, and I told

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you it's hard to navigate.

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It takes kind of a little bit

of practice to actually figure

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out what jobs are of use here.

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But this one is a pretty good example.

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This was posted 10 minutes ago.

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It has zero likes and zero comments.

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It is an actual person hiring

that we could reach out to.

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We could send them a cold direct

message and send them our resume

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or cover letter, whatever.

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And we know that they're hiring as of

10 minutes ago, a research analyst.

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Let's scroll through and

see what else we can find.

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This one right here, it looks like

it's someone looking for a job.

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This looks like it might

be outside of the country.

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We'd have to look at all of

these links to double check.

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And I'm looking for more like this.

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DraftKings is looking for a manager

platform operations analytics.

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This is awesome.

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This was 22 minutes ago.

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It has five likes, and this is a

talent acquisition lead, which is

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basically a fancy way to say recruiter.

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So we know a recruiter 22 minutes

ago didn't have enough qualified

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candidates for this platform

operations analytics manager role.

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And that's why they posted it on LinkedIn.

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We can look at the job description here.

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This is the full job description and

we can apply here, but also she's

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even inviting us to connect with

you if you fit this particular role.

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So she's basically inviting you,

begging you to reach out to her

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if you qualify for this role.

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Now, of course, there's going to be

posts like this where it is really

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unclear what's actually going on here.

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This is from some strange company

and I would try to ignore these.

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This is one of the reasons why I

said this is difficult to navigate.

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Here's another example from

someone here in Colorado.

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This is a recruiter and they're

looking for a database engineer.

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In this particular case, they

even give the hourly rate,

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which is 70 to 75 an hour.

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And we could check out this person's

LinkedIn page, open it up and

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send them some sort of a message.

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This was posted just 29 minutes ago.

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It has eight likes and

only three comments.

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Now, if we look at these comments,

you're going to see stuff like this.

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I'm interested.

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I'm interested in this position.

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These basically do nothing.

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In fact, I basically ignore all of these.

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This one up here is actually pretty good.

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If they've already sent them a message

or a connection request where they've

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actually introduced themselves, they've

said what their background is, and

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they are inviting the actual recruiter.

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Here's another one posted by

a recruiter 34 minutes ago for

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a senior data analyst role.

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Once again, no likes, no comments.

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We could reach out to this

person and talk to them.

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And I'm hoping that you're starting

to see how powerful this is, because

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if we go ahead and contrast this

with going to the jobs tab right

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here, looking up data analysts.

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Next in the search bar, we can see

that this job was posted two weeks

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ago and has over a hundred applicants.

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So you tell me, would you like to

apply for a job that's two weeks old,

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that has over a hundred applicants

or one that is 34 minutes old with

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probably zero to 10 applicants?

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The choice is your guys's, but I'm

going to go with this hidden market way.

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Now I encourage you to go try this.

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Out right now and let me know how it goes.

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You're going to probably figure out

that it is a little bit difficult

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to one, get to this page and

then to two, navigate this page.

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It is difficult to actually see

what jobs are spam, which ones are

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from a different country and which

ones are actually good fits for you.

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It doesn't have all those nice features

and filters that most job boards do.

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It's just part of the hidden job market.

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So it's difficult to navigate

this and I recognize that.

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And so you're welcome to follow this

hidden job market on your own, but

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if you'd like Transcribed I'd like

to offer to navigate it for you.

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I created something

called PremiumDataJobs.

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com, which is exactly what it sounds like.

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A premium data job job board that

will allow you to find the freshest,

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the best, and the least competitive

jobs in the market everywhere online.

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We source these jobs from

the hidden job market.

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Like I showed you today, every day,

my team scours the internet, looking

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for these hidden job opportunities

that seem like an excellent fit

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for people like you, then we post

it on our premium data job board.

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And what we'll do is when

you join premium data jobs.

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com is we'll give you a survey and figure

out exactly what you are looking for, and

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then we will do the job searching for you.

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It's kind of a win win because we're

already out there looking on the internet

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every single day for all of our clients.

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And then you don't have to do the

boring and tedious work of finding

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these opportunities on this hidden

job market, which is hard to navigate.

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So if that sounds of interest to you,

go ahead and check the show notes

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down below, or go to premiumdatajobs.

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com and check it out either way.

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I'm excited for you to get into

these fresh data jobs and let me

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know if you have any questions

in the comments down below.

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