Career Analysis: Quantitative

Career Analysis: Quantitative


I am grit.

Career Snapshot
• 26 positions held overall since college
• Contract: 10, FT: 7, PT: 4, Freelance: 5, Internship: 1
• 6 promotions (23%): 2 to full-time; 1 managerial, and 3 director level, with 2 pay raises
• 13 years of post-college employment at a rate of 2 paid jobs per year (omitting 38 volunteer roles during that same time frame; approximately 3 volunteer roles per year)



Job Loss Analysis
• Layoff/position eliminated: 7x; approximately 30% of offers resulted in job loss despite promotions and pay raises
• Laid off: 5x (19%) -- laid off less than 1/5 of the time -- 81% job retention rate
• Position eliminated: 2x (7%); 100% due to cost reasons and all instances were following a promotion
• Resignation: 4x (15%) -- bit.ly/toxicmgmt


Company Analysis (includes companies in more than one category)
• E-commerce: 9 or about 35% of companies
• Software as a Service (SaaS): 7 or about 27% of companies
• Digital media: 5 or 19% of companies
• Social networks: 4 or 15% of companies
• 5/31 or 19% of companies were corporations and Fortune 500 businesses, the remaining 79% were startups


Role Capacity
• 10+ years in the startup ecosystem
• 4yrs + 6 months in enterprise
• 3yrs + 9 months in SaaS
• 10yrs + 1 month in social media
• 9yrs + 1 month in e-commerce
• 8yrs + 8 months in community
• 6yrs + 5 months in influencer outreach
• 4yrs + 9 months in retail
• 4yrs in events
• 3yrs + 5 months in product development
• 2yrs + 1 month in B2B
• 8yrs in B2C

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Observations:
- I'd been laid off far less than I felt I'd been.
- I'd worked for more SaaS companies than I'd fully taken stock of.
- 3/7 or 85% of instances of total job loss were due to toxic management
- I hold 10x the amount of volunteer experience than the average LinkedIn candidate.
When it comes to instances of job loss, the main theme is undermining.
As someone who’s focused on improving women’s rights, there are far more women who’re responsible for my being harassed or let go than I’d like to admit yet there it is.
When on teams with lesser means and comprised of those who're not marketing savvy, my position will likely be eliminated due to cost only to be refilled with a candidate who's both more familiar or presumably cheaper.
However, if I’m around funded teams of so-called peers then (strangely) I've been sabotaged and my work was confiscated and misappropriated.
Otherwise, it's smooth sailing so long as I'm paid a living wage and management isn't toxic.

Despite this, I remain resilient and now possess a great deal of character, maturity, insight, and objectivity.

My most valuable, hit-you-over-the-head trait is grit which studies say is everything: https://lnkd.in/gapzrds8

A/B Testing: some of my favorites

A/B testing (also known as split testing) is the process of comparing two versions of a web page, email, or other marketing assets and measuring the difference in performance.

Think of it like a competition. You’re pitting two versions of your asset against one another to see which comes out on top.

Your champion is a marketing asset — whether it’s a web page, email, Facebook Ad, or something else entirely — that you suspect will perform well or that has performed well in the past. You test it against a challenger, which is a variation on the champion with one element changed.

After your A/B test, you either have a new champion or discover that the first variation performed best. You then create new variations to test against your champion.

Some of my recent favorite helpful guides and graphics:

How to Run Split Tests and Optimize Your Website for Conversions


Numbers Matter

Update: It’s now late Sept of this same year and I’m between 50-100 applications.

I submitted my first application in late August of this year.

I didn’t apply for another role again until October. I had to ensure my resume and portfolio had the necessary improvements.

At the time of this posting, I’ve not applied to more than 20 job openings.

This post is to answer unasked questions, to address quiet concerns that employers never share with candidates directly: you’re not applying to a ton of jobs, are you?..

No, I’ve not applied to a ton of jobs.

You are my sole dream job, and I uh, love you, corporate role.

So, I hope that this post helps. TTYL