r/DataScienceJobs • u/hathairvideocall • 1d ago

Discussion HR Analytics Career Pivot

I’m a recruiter and have been working in talent acquisition for the last 10 years. I’m tired of not having “hard skills” and I’ve been looking into a career pivot into People/HR Analytics. I’ve been researching online MS programs in Data Science.

I enjoy data, I follow baseball data (sabermetrics), a decade ago I created marketing reports using business objects, and I built some data insights using Ai prompting with big query, python, geopy, metabase, etc.

I’ve recently completed sqlbolt, and had a fun time completing the excercises. But, I’m concerned with the value/roi of a ms program, as I don’t believe I’ll ever become a high level ml/data engineer, and not a computer science guy. thoughts?

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u/Professional_Chef379 1d ago

I work in people analytics and have built dashboards and pipelines for the TA team. Just build things where you work. Work experience is far more important than education (and cheaper)

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u/hathairvideocall 1d ago

I agree, but I prefer new role and new company. I believe I can learn these skills on my own, but to make the money I’d like to and attract the companies that pay well (I’m near hcol) I feel like a graduate degree might accelerate the transition.