Raishal Dhawan's Recent LinkedIn Posts

500+ applications 35 interviews 7 final rounds 1 offer Crazy how these stats sum up my past few months. It was a long search with so many interviews and more waiting than I’d like to admit. It feels unreal how everything finally fell into place. I’m grateful to share that I’ve joined SMG as a Data Analyst, workin…

I think reaching out is one of the most underrated things you can do. This project wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t sent that message. Last year, while looking for a full-time role, I also wanted to build my portfolio by solving real business problems. I spent weeks thinking about where those opportunities woul…

My last data internship paid me £19/hour. That’s a PhD-level rate for someone who wasn’t even looking for an internship. I was in Exeter, completing my Master’s. And, it was one of the proudest moments of that year- mainly because of how it happened! I wasn’t looking for an internship. I wasn’t applying for any…

500+ applications 35 interviews 7 final rounds 1 offer Crazy how these stats sum up my past few months. It was a long search with so many interviews and more waiting than I’d like to admit. It feels unreal how everything finally fell into place. I’m grateful to share that I’ve joined SMG as a Data Analyst, workin…

I’ve given 35+ data analyst interviews in the last year. And in most of them, the conversation ended up here: My project experience. Not my degree. Not the tools I listed. Just what I had actually built. One of those projects also got me an interview with Warner Music Group. It was a music royalties project I bu…

I got 10 employee referrals at different UK companies. Do you know how many jobs I got out of them? Zero. When I was looking for a job, I tried every single strategy people were using: Cold emails? Ghosted. Solely applying on job boards? Black hole. 10 internal referrals? Barely even got me an initial interview.…