What they forgot to teach you about industry transitions from academia (WTF AITA)
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Academic CVs often arrive as 22‑page beasts that industry reduces to a one or two‑page resume; use datadrivencv to render concise two‑pagers and signal R fluency to hiring managers. Replace dense research statements with a one‑page template from stevetemplates. Demonstrations win: a themed Shiny demo using bslib and thematic landed a Bloomreach offer. Portfolios: three lines of usethis code publish a GitHub landing page; full sites via postcards, blogdown/Quarto, GitHub Pages or Netlify. Resources aggregate at wtf-aita.com.
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