Data Scientist resume keywords

What a data scientist resume is screened for, and example bullets to adapt. Use the skills that are true of your experience, and put them inside accomplishment bullets rather than in a bare list.

Also covers: Data Science, Research Scientist, Applied Scientist, Statistician.

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Skills and keywords

These are the terms most consistently used to screen data scientist applications. Spell tools and certifications the way postings spell them — a screen matches the words, not the meaning.

PythonSQLMachine learningStatisticsPandasscikit-learnA/B testingData visualizationFeature engineeringDeep learning

Example bullets

Each one has blanks in brackets. Fill them with your own figures, or rewrite the line — never keep a number you cannot explain.

  • Built a model type model that improved metric by N%.
  • Designed N A/B tests that informed decision.
  • Productionised N models serving N predictions a day.

Verbs that signal ownership

Open bullets with these rather than with “responsible for” or “worked on”:

builtdesignedproductionised

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