You did all the right things:
Now you are wondering, how do I reap the benefits? Here are five unusual ways to land a data science job: without having a resume, and without ever checking a single job ad. And once on the job, read 5 ways a data scientist can get fired.
Add your skill list on LinkedIn, have your colleagues / boss / clients endorse it (and reciprocate!)
If in the short term you don't need money, you can also contact employers and offer to pay them to be accepted to work for them (in short, your hourly rate is negative). This makes sense only if you are looking to gain some specific experience (or work on specific data) that is hard to get outside the job in question. You are likely to experience a high rejection rate thought, worse than if asking a salary significantly above market rate. Another idea is to work remotely for overseas employers. Finally, there are ways to make money, as a data scientist, without working for an employer or a client. For instance, harvesting, summarizing and selling data or reports.
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Pro bono consulting is an often under-rated way to get a feel for the kind of problems out there. Sometimes you'll be surprised at what people will approach you with (whether it's spit-balling or really impactful). You may even surprise yourself with what you can do given a bit of time to research and fiddle. There's no pressure in discover something is out of your league bc its no charge, and you can still help people out by referring them to next steps or other people and resources. If it turns out you can handle a question/problem that comes your way, then you can add that experience to your resume as a consulting project (and charge to do it next time:).
Here's a wild idea: find a cause you care about and engage with Non-Profit Organisation that does this. It's very likely they will have interesting data sets. Help them, help yourself. Practical experience that looks very interesting in your bio, gives you great flexibility in what and how you are doing it, allowing at the same time to publish your code. There is nothing I like more in a CV than a link to an open source repository.
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