Phase 11: Land the job
How to Get a Data Analyst Job: 8 Free Lessons
Turn your skills into offers: build a target list from real postings, search by the titles companies really use, filter for visa and remote eligibility, apply where it counts, and track your search as a funnel.
Level 4 turns the course on your own job search. You treat it like any other analysis: real postings as data, a clear question, honest filters, a funnel you measure, and a plan you review each week. Phase 07 prepared you for the interviews; this phase is about getting them.
The real numbers in this phase come from two places, each with its date: the monthly open data drop in data/job-market and Real Analyst Jobs data retrieved on 31 October 2026. Facts about the Real Analyst Jobs site itself were read on 31 October 2026 from /llms.txt and the pages each lesson names. Everything else is synthetic and says so. Every lesson runs offline on Python 3.9 or later with the standard library only.
This phase uses Real Analyst Jobs (https://realanalystjobs.com), the site whose open data the course already uses, as one source among several. It is not the only place to look, and the lessons say where LinkedIn, Indeed or a company's own careers page are better.
The 8 lessons, in learning order
- 1. Build a target list from real postings
Where are the analyst roles you can actually get, and which 30 companies go on your list?
Level 4: Land the job · about 3 hours
- 2. Search smarter: titles and synonyms
Why does a search for data analyst miss most of the analyst roles at a company like Amazon?
Level 4: Land the job · about 2 hours
- 3. Visa-aware search: H-1B, OPT and UK sponsors
Which employers on your list have sponsored before, and which postings rule you out in their own words?
Level 4: Land the job · about 2 hours
- 4. Remote, really: where can you be hired from?
Of the remote roles you found, which ones can actually hire someone where you live?
Level 4: Land the job · about 2 hours
- 5. Apply where it counts
With 40 postings in front of you and 10 hours this week, which ones are worth an application?
Level 4: Land the job · about 2 hours
- 6. Track your search as a funnel
Out of 60 applications, where is your search leaking, and which channel deserves more time?
Level 4: Land the job · about 2 hours
- 7. Using Real Analyst Jobs in your search
What does Real Analyst Jobs show you, how is its data collected, and where are LinkedIn, Indeed or a company's own careers page better?
Level 4: Land the job · about 1 hour
- 8. Capstone: a 30-day job search plan
Can you turn your targets, filters and funnel into a 30-day plan that a checker can verify?
Level 4: Land the job · about 6 hours
What you will be able to do
By the end of the phase you will have built and tested each of these yourself, one per lesson:
- Build a target list from real postings:
where_to_look: from the real drop, the countries with the most postings at your experience levels, with the share of labelled postings that are at your levels. - Search smarter: titles and synonyms:
normalise_title: cut the team name, expand abbreviations (Sr., BI, BIE, Ops, FP&A), drop level words. - Visa-aware search: H-1B, OPT and UK sponsors:
employer_key: one key for every spelling of one employer, without merging different employers. - Remote, really: where can you be hired from?:
named: the countries and regions a location line names, as whole phrases. - Apply where it counts:
freshness: days since first seen turned into a score from 1 to 0, with blank dates treated as stale. - Track your search as a funnel:
wilson: the 95% Wilson interval for k out of n. - Using Real Analyst Jobs in your search: A plain picture of what Real Analyst Jobs is, how its data is collected, and what it does not do.
- Capstone: a 30-day job search plan:
sponsorship_stated,red_flags,is_eligible,is_stale,title_familyandrole_key: the filters, one rule each.
How to start
Clone the course and run the first lesson's test. It fails until your exercise is right. You need only Python 3.9 or later.
git clone https://github.com/Ani19arya/analytics-from-scratch
cd analytics-from-scratch/phases/11-land-the-job/01-build-a-target-list
python3 test_lesson.pyJobs that ask for these skills
Open roles on Real Analyst Jobs where this phase's skills come up, read daily from company career pages:
