Technology & Data Science/Analytics

Explore&Make Connections(Tech)

Explore & Make Connections

Talking to alumni in tech and alumni in data analytics can help you make informed choices and potentially open doors.  Join Swatties Helping Swatties and conduct informational interviews to enhance your career journey. Make an appointment to chat with an advisor about this field.

Learn&Apply(Tech)

Learn & Apply

Browse the industry guides to learn more about types of roles, organizations and skills valued by employers. Look for internships and jobs on Handshake, where you can also browse employers and industry-specific events.

Level Up your professional and technical skills

Swarthmore Career Services is again collaborating with TriCo partners, Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College, career centers to bring skills training from Haverford alum Panos Panidis of Aesop Academy. Panos is himself an entrepreneur who, after several years working in …

By Kristie Beucler
Kristie Beucler Associate Director, Career Education
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Data Architecture, Engineering & Analytics – Career Paths Tips & Insights from Experienced Professionals

guest blog from Panos Panidis, Haverford College ’09 and Founder of AESOP Academy & Advisory

Functional Differences:

Essential Skill for these career tracks:

How to standout in a competitive job market for these highly demanded expertise:

What does career growth …

By Panos Panidis
Panos Panidis Founder
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What is a Technical Assessment?

A technical assessment can be part of a technical interview or something you do in addition to a technical interview. In rare cases, it’s given instead of a technical interview. But no matter what kind of technical assessment you take, …

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Where the Tech Jobs Are in 2023

For those working in the tech industry, the past several months have been rocky at best. Massive layoffs were announced starting last year, with tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, and IBM cutting thousands of jobs. Along with this, the …

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Guide to Working at Adobe

When you think of Adobe, you may think of .pdfs or of Photoshop. And while it’s true these are some of the main products, Adobe is so much more as a company. Adobe got its start working with digital fonts …

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Employer & Interview Insights

Vault Guide to Internet Content Jobs, Second Edition

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Career Guide to Information Technology, Third Edition

Opportunity is definitely knocking for information technology professionals; employment for computer programmers, computer support specialists, computer systems analysts, software developers …

Vault Guide to Computer Software Jobs, Third Edition

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Guide to Information Technology Jobs, Third Edition

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Guide to Mathematics and Physics Jobs, Third Edition

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Build Skills

Tech Career Skills: Searching, Interviewing, and Landing a Job

Taught by Nishant Bhajaria
Too many engineers focus on building hard technical skills, but do not receive the guidance or coaching necessary to make…

Web Portfolio Projects: Sortable Table and Arrays

Taught by Leigh Lawhon
As a JavaScript developer vying for a new position, you may encounter tricky interview questions that test you on topics…

The Data Science of Media and Entertainment with Barton Poulson

Taught by Barton Poulson
Music, theater, dance, and film may not seem like data-driven businesses, but they can benefit from data science just as…

Meta-analysis for Data Science and Business Analytics

Taught by Conrad Carlberg
In a world where nearly everyone uses data to inform their business methodologies, an emerging consensus is that more emphasis…

Bracketology Club: Using March Madness to Learn Data Science

Taught by Brian Tonsoni
When one pictures the group who bested over 100 sports experts to win the 2016 Bracket Matrix—an online March Madness…

Get Ready for Your Coding Interview

Taught by YK Sugi
If you’ve nabbed an interview for a software development position, it’s likely that you’ll have to face a common hurdle—the…

The Data Science of Sports Management, with Barton Poulson

Taught by Barton Poulson
A passion for sports can turn an ordinarily math-averse individual into an amateur statistician, ready to back up their pick…

Data Science Foundations: Data Assessment for Predictive Modeling

Taught by Keith McCormick
CRISP-DM, the cross-industry standard process for data mining, is composed of six phases. Most new data scientists rush to modeling…

Customer Insights and Consumer Analytics for Organizations: Tools and Analysis

Taught by Chris DallaVilla
To build products that resonate with customers, companies must first understand where their audience is coming from. What do their…

Women Transforming Tech: Networking

Taught by Nitya Narasimhan
Building a career in technology can be challenging—especially for women. A solid community can make all the difference to a…

Writing a Tech Resume

Taught by Emma Bostian
When you apply for technology jobs, your resume is your opportunity to stand out from the crowd. Emma Bostian shows…

Nail Your Java Interview

Taught by Kathryn Hodge
Have you lined up an interview for a Java developer position? In this course, review critical Java concepts-and commonly-asked interview…

Prepare for Your Data Science Interview

Taught by Ben Sullins
If you’re looking for work as a junior data analyst, engineer, or scientist, this course gives you the best techniques…

Using Power BI with Excel

Taught by Madecraft
Are you ready to take your skills as a data analyst to the next level? Power BI is an easy-to-use…

Lessons from the World of Sports Analytics

Taught by Ben Sullins
If you’re a sports fan and a data geek at heart, you may have thought about your dream career. You…

Introduction to Career Skills in Data Analytics

Taught by Robin Hunt
Are you ready to take the first step on your journey as a data analyst? Whatever your goals, you don’t…

The Data Science of Healthcare, Medicine, and Public Health

Taught by Barton Poulson
Data analytics plays an increasingly pivotal role in how we go about managing our healthcare systems and personal health. This…

GitHub for Data Science Job Seekers

Taught by Isil Berkun
Explore ways to use your GitHub profile and projects to increase your value add and visibility, improve opportunities to be…

Ace Your Web Developer Interview

Taught by Emma Bostian
You know you’re a great developer for the job, but how do you prove it to your interviewers? It can…

Swarthmore & External Resources

LeetCode

Through a premium subscription, LeetCode provides interview prep tailored to major companies and videos detailing different aspects of technology interviewing. …

LaunchDeck

Swarthmore’s Largest Tech and Entrepreneurship Club

Negotiating Software Engineering Offers

Negotiating software engineering offers. Advice will be most helpful for new grad students targeting major computer science companies, but some …

Internship Search

Practical guide to navigate your tech internship hunt by CodePath.org

Swarthmore Women+ in Computer Science

Our purpose is to create a supportive community for women in Computer Science as one way to change this trend.

Software Engineer interviews

Everything you need to search for jobs/Internships in the Software Engineering/ Computer Science field

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Office closed daily from 12–1pm for lunch.