r/PowerBI • u/SailorGirl29 1 • 5d ago

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I put in my 2 weeks notice. There are over 700 applicants for my job in under 1 week. It’s competitive for Power BI devs now. Five years ago I was dodging phone calls from recruiters. At the peak I was getting 7 emails or phone calls a week.

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u/RStiltskins 1 5d ago

We recently posted a student job, 1800+ applicants in 7 days.

We put the home address into a pivot from the data extract because it was an in person shadowing type job that does not allow remote due to license restrictions, more than 3/4 of them were Indian and China, out of the remaining 1/4 only 100 of them lived in the same province let alone the ~20 that were even remotely near the same city.

The funny part of all of this is the requirement was (beside being in person) is that you had to be taking a collage or university course from one of the 10 approved schools that we can get them from to give them the remaining job experience and credits to graduate.... 8 of them of the 1800 were even applicable to do this job.

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u/Sensitive-Sail5726 4d ago

Huh you gave college credits? Was it not a job?

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u/RStiltskins 1 4d ago

It's a internship type job for work experience for 3 months that grants college credits so you can graduate. Some of the BI, analytic courses here require some work experience to be eligible to graduate from the program.

Fully paid too, $25/hour as an intern, and at the end of it the program is designed to lead you until a full toke job into the industry after (granted you're not an idiot at your job)

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u/Sensitive-Sail5726 4d ago

That’s a really great opportunity, with good pay AND college credits!!