Schedule an appointment (for current students)

Résumé preparation

• Résumés

• Cover letters

Interview preparation

• Interviewing well

• Questions to Ask in an Interview

Technical interviewing

• How to ace your technical interview

• How to prep for your technical interview

Data science interview questions

• 109 common questions

• 100 data science questions and solutions

• Questions from data science interviews

• 21 must-know interview questions and solutions

Interviewing case studies

• BCG practice and tips 

• Deloitte practice and tips

• Bain practice and tips

Job and internship search

• Recruiting timelines

Data science jobs

• Handshake

• Kaggle

• Hacker News job board

• 20 websites to find data science jobs

International students

• CPT information

• OPT information

• Additional employment forms and information

• Frequently asked questions

To learn more about working in the United States, visit the International Students & Scholars Program or call (434) 982-3010.

Salary negotiation

• 37 tips to know (includes links to Payscale and Glassdoor)

• Salary + cost of living calculators

• Additional resources (such as diagnostic questions, worksheets, etc.)

Professional development resources 

• Workshops on Grounds

Online training

• Lynda.com (UVA pays for your access to these courses)

• Hacker Rank (technical practice and recruiting)

• Deep learning nano degree

Podcasts and newsletters

• Podcasts

• 7 awesome data science newsletters

• 10 data science newsletters to subscribe to

Cool company blogs

• Stitch Fix 

• Airbnb

• 50 of the best data science blogs

Data sets 

• Kaggle data sets

• Awesome public data sets (including natural language processing and image processing)

• Open US government data

• Virginia open data

• 371 data sets, categorized by data type

• AWS public data sets

• Pew Research data sets

For more help with résumés, cover letters and other specialized career resources, visit the University of Virginia Career Center.

UVA Career Center