Some people celebrate their birthday with cakes, gifts and parties. Others, like Matteo Stelluti MSBA’22, spend it giving back to their alma mater. The Babson alumnus, now a business intelligence engineer at Amazon, recently returned to campus from Seattle to host a tech talk for those pursuing careers in analytics, sharing advice with current students on way to navigate the job market and make great strides in their technology. careers.
“Here, we feel more like family,” Stelluti said to kick off the session. “I feel very connected to Babson.”
Suitable for students of Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) and supported by the Analytics Club and Professor Mahdi Majbouri, Stelluti’s talk covered job search tips, tricks and resources, as well as an overview of the tech job landscape from his perspective at Amazon. He shared his views on the changes he has witnessed, the roles that are developing, and how quickly the sector has evolved, even since its debut in 2023.
From his perspective, there are a few key things to focus on to increase your chances of landing your dream job in the tech sector.
Embrace AI
One of the biggest changes Stelluti has noticed in his industry is the ubiquity of artificial intelligence. Tech giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are racing to the top, each aiming to develop the most advanced, competitive, and coveted AI technology on the market. As a result, their employees have a lot to learn and adopt quickly in this space.
“In 2024, the impact (of AI) on businesses increases,” Steluti said. Result: “companies are investing in it”.
So much so that across all industries, this is significantly increasing the demand for AI-powered roles, such as prompt engineers – the process of guiding generative AI solutions to generate desired results.
He said the need for upskilling and reskilling will become increasingly common for employees in non-tech sectors, and knowing how to use AI tools to create solutions and efficiencies will become the norm .
Steluti shared examples of how AI tools can bring efficiency code and can automate many of the more menial tasks that business analytics professionals may need to perform. Hearing Stelluti’s ideas gave students a closer look at how they could use AI in their daily work lives and showed them how deeply they would need to understand it.
Master your craft
However, before introducing AI into their daily lives, students must become masters of their craft. Stelluti stressed the importance of know your specialty in-depth, whether it’s data science, data engineering or product management, whatever AI tools you rely on for support or efficiency.
For Stelluti, his specialty is understanding data down to the grain, something he learned in the course Storytelling and Communication with Data, an elective within Babson’s MSBA program.
“There was this lesson (at Babson), where Professor (Nathaniel) Karst said, the thing I want you to focus on is the level of detail of the data. Data can be defined at different granularities, and if you don’t understand the grain first, you won’t be able to do anything with it.
These words have come to aid Stelluti in every data mission he leads at Amazon and remind him how important the role of humans is in navigating AI in technology.
“I think understanding data and translating business reports into data solutions will remain the most important skill, because I don’t think AI technology will be able to do that in the foreseeable future,” Stelluti said.
Showcase your skills and build your network
All your expertise and achievements only have impact if you share them with others. Stelluti’s final advice was to showcase your skills through as many media outlets as possible and not only join, but engage in as many relevant networks and communities as possible.
For his peers in technology and data analytics, he gave examples such as levels.fyi, O*NET Online and Blind as best places to get information and make connections, and platforms such as GitHub and Kaggle as domains to create and present your portfolio.
“It’s all about being active,” Stellauti said. “Be someone in your major outside of your university. »
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