Want a Job in Data Science? Here's Why You Should Specialize » Dataquest

When it comes to working in data science, few people have as much experience as Mike Kim. He's the co-founder and CTO of Outlier.ai, and he's led data science and machine learning initiatives at Google, Aardvark, and AltSchool. As someone actively hiring for roles in the data science field, Kim said he typically looks for applicants with very specific skills, not data science generalists. "This is what generally just makes data science hiring, and job seeking, fundamentally hard. It's that the term data scientist encompasses so many different kinds of skills, and kinds of people," Mike said.