Ekta Saraogi was working at British Telecom as a Project Manager but was inclined towards the field of Data Science and she wanted to try out freelancing. This led her to take a career break and enrolled for Simplilearn’s Data Scientist Masters course. Ekta learnt many courses in the Data Scientist masters course including Data Science with R, Data Science with SAS, Data Science with Python, Machine Learning, Tableau, Big Data Hadoop and Spark. After doing the course, she started applying on freelancing domains, LinkedIn and Facebook groups. Soon, she was working as a freelancer in Data Science for many companies on a contract basis. She is working on web scraping projects, data analytics and scripting at Odetta.ai. Ekta also started to create tutorials on Data Science, Python and SAS for various companies including Packt. She also started to train some professionals on Python with Django with leading ed-tech companies. Her aspirations for the future in her words: “In the future, I am looking at taking Data Visualization courses including Tableau and Power BI. Data visualization forms the end process of a Data Science project and I want to attend training soon. Ultimately I want to become a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Data Science. As it is a vast subject, I want to develop a niche in areas like Python scripting or data visualization.” Course Length: 3:23 Source: Simplilearn
FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
Co-operative education is a three-way partnership between the university, students and employers. Students apply their classroom knowledge in a series of four-month work experiences. You, the employer, enhance a student’s education, while reaping the unique benefits of CO-OP employees.
- Year-round access to well-motivated, qualified employees.
- Access to potential full-time staff in a controlled environment, reducing your costs and risks.
- Access to a cost-effective source of temporary employees for peak periods or special projects.
- A say in what students learn by working with the university.
- Promotion of your organization as one that believes in developing the potential of young people.
- Access to a great pool of French-speaking, English-speaking and bilingual students.
Most work terms run at least 15 weeks, or four months. They can be no shorter than 13 weeks. Some master’s students, as well as some science and engineering students, are available for 8 or 12 months’ work terms.
All jobs are reviewed by a CO-OP Program Coordinator, and only those providing students with work experience related to their professional development are approved. Administrative activities involved in a job should be less than 10% of the entire workload.
When you first contact SSC, you are assigned one of our Program Coordinators, depending on your discipline of interest. This person is your main contact in our office. As you move through the recruitment process, you also work with a representative from CO-OP Administrative Services, who assists with job posting and interview scheduling.
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
