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My name is Tiffany and I work at Google and

my job is to ensure that our products are fair and inclusive.

My first role in data analytics probably harkens back to my

time spent in the United States Army.

And there I did a lot of work with data,

trying to understand which decisions I should make for my soldiers and for

my unit making sure I was making the best data driven decisions to

ensure their safety and well being. Coming out of the military,

I felt a tremendous amount of impostor syndrome.

I felt insecure.

I was unsure of what could be good at since I had such a highly specialized job.

But I talked to a lot of mentors, a lot of friends that encouraged me and

told me about transferable skills.

Some of the skills that I gained in the army were very,

very clearly helpful to me in my career today.

The one that stands out to me the most is the ability to frame a problem.

So the ability to think about what someone needs, the data that you have and

how to connect in the middle, how to frame it out.

So there's no scope creep so that you have a very crisp and clear articulation of

the problem and a very clear and crisp articulation of that solution set.

And I learned that in the military and I continue to build upon my skill base,

continue to go online and read books and shore up that knowledge and

over time I became more and more confident of what I could accomplish and

the things that I could reach for. All of the courses that I took,

all of the hard work, all of the imposter syndrome really all led me to the job,

my dream job, that I have today.

It's important for people that have nontraditional backgrounds or

nontraditional path to get into a certificate program such as this

because we know that education is uneven, opportunities are uneven.

I'm one of the first people in my family to go to college, to get an education and

being able to do so has opened up so many doors for me and

so many of you may be in the same situation.

If I were to give anyone advice as they're transitioning out of the military and

into a data analytics career, I would tell them to use some Google products.

So Google has a career translator where you can put your military service,

your branch, your job into that translator and it will spit out

transferrable skills that you may have that you can place on your resume.

I'd encourage you to take the leap of faith and get rid of and

shed the impostor syndrome and apply for as many jobs as you can.

And finally I would encourage everyone to try to find

someone who works at the company.

Try to get that referral. Be bold on Linkedin, be bold on other platforms and

just try to make your way into the job that you see yourself in.