I earned my Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology with a focus on cognition and education research back in December 2024. I gave myself a longer winter break to recover from burnout before diving into the job market. From February through October 2025, I applied mainly to roles that included or bridged data science, research and development, and learning and development. I finally landed a salaried position this month that fits my background better than most of the jobs I had applied for (I’ll be working in higher ed analyzing data and supporting professors with edu tech and research).

Grateful the search is over (especially in these interesting times…)!!!

Used SankeyMATIC to create the visual.

Posted by riverside125

11 comments

  4. 0/14 on the cover letter apps, guess I’ll skip those unless it’s something I really want

  5. Congratulations. You were able to find a lot of jobs to apply for over that. May i ask, were you applying globally? 

  9. Was in a similar position not too long ago. Glad to see others like me are having some success.

  11. Not to be confused with the STANKEYmatic

     https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1hppos3/oc_incidents_of_sharting_over_the_past_10_months/

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