The demand for data science professionals was huge in 2020, and it is only growing in 2021. While industry giants have embraced the capabilities of data science, small and medium-sized businesses have started to leverage the power of data science to improve their business processes. Owing to digital transformation, data science practices help businesses make intelligent and data-backed smart decisions, formulate strategies to make better products and solutions, manage large amounts of data efficiently to get valuable insights and predict outcomes. To utilize most of these features to increase ROI, organizations are rapidly hiring data science professionals. If you are a data scientist or analyst, check out these hottest job openings from companies around the globe and look for your next challenge.

This column was originally published on Jeff Neal's blog, ChiefHRO.com, The government is sitting on a treasure trove of HR data that it does not typically use. For example, agencies have data about performance, and data about where they recruit and what kinds of questions they ask in job announcements. I do not know of a single agency that is comparing the questions they ask to the performance they get from the selectees. There are so many possibilities to use the data to produce actionable information that would help agencies do better hiring, get better performance, and use their resources more wisely.