How to Use Professional Groups to Find a Business Analyst Job 2021 (New Grad)

Part 4 of a New Graduate’s Guide to Becoming a Data/Business Analyst

If you are reading this in 2021, you may ask yourself, how can I network in a pandemic? If I can’t leave the house for fear of contracting a deadly virus, how can I possibly network?

TL;DR

If you’re a minority in the tech field of any kind, use it.

How to find professional groups

Use smaller job boards — the smaller, the better

If you’re a minority in the tech field of any kind, use your identity to find professional groups.

Are you a woman? Gay? What about Black? Okay, well maybe, Asian? Do you live in a city or near one? (Seriously. Any city will do.) Do you code in Python? Do you code in R?

There is a network of people who share your skills and/or identities, and they want to help you find a job. They have Slack channels, Meetup groups, websites, and even Facebook groups.

I’ll include a list below, but first, this is a powerful way to use them:

Find jobs through the job boards of professional groups

This advice is probably very 2020, but I’m going to go ahead and give it because networking through these groups literally led me to my job:

1. Almost every professional group…