Practical, honest and a little bit cheeky
Career advice in data is either vague or locked behind an expensive course. These guides are the opposite: plain English, based on what I actually did to go from Medical Laboratory Assistant to CTO over more than a decade, with the numbers, the mistakes and the shortcuts left in.
CAREER
ROADMAP
The CTO Career Roadmap
A step-by-step map of how a data career really climbs: the pay bands, the moves that create the big jumps, the skills to stack and the traps to avoid. It has far more detail than I can fit on a slide, and it is a bit comical in places, but it makes its point seriously.
- The UK data career funnel and pay bands, from entry level to C-level
- The three pillars: move roles, lead your own progression, follow the tools in demand
- The goal loop: Improve, Be the best, Apply, Adapt
- The two skills that decide most careers: communication and self-organisation
Advancing your career in dataSlide 1 of 29Advancing Your Career in Data: the slides
The full slide deck from the PBIMCR talk. Click through it on this page or download it as a PDF.
Read onlineUK Data Pay Bands
Where each level sits on pay, what it takes to move up, and how sector changes the picture.
View the bandsInterview Question Bank (suggested)Coming soon
The questions to expect for exams and interviews, with answers that work. Idea for a future guide.
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