Data Science Course Development and Execution - OnRamp
all candidates, regardless of their background, the opportunity to demonstrate their skills
(and learn new ones) during the hiring process, while providing companies with candidate
insights that help them make smarter, less biased hiring decisions"....
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Background
OnRamp (https://www.onramp.io/) created “a skills-based hiring platform that provides all candidates, regardless of their background, the opportunity to demonstrate their skills (and learn new ones) during the hiring process, while providing companies with candidate insights that help them make smarter, less biased hiring decisions”. OnRamp engaged forerunners to design a curriculum, interview and select candidates, and teach a one month full time data science training program for 6 ‘apprentices’. These apprentices were then contracted for a formal apprenticeship at Twitch.
Solution
We created the data science curriculum from scratch after working with Twitch to understand the desired skills and competencies for their candidates. The curriculum spanned one full month of work for the apprentices to help improve their data science skills. The skills covered were both technical in nature: SQL, Data Visualization and BI, Data QA/cleaning, Experiment Design, Hypothesis Testing, Power Analysis, A/B Testing. The course also covered soft skills and training: Defining Metrics, Report Writing, Storytelling, Public Speaking, Communicating with Impact. Forerunners mentored the candidates during the entire one month training course and prepared them to be highly effective and productive employees working at Twitch.
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