In no particular order:

Before Job Market

• Get a driver’s license
• Buy interview clothes
  • Many retailers have student discounts, frequent sales
  • Prioritize materials that can be washed normally, less wrinkles
• Take care of mental health
• Take care of physical health
• Take care of financial health
  • Build your credit
  • Save a liquid fund for flyouts that reimburse you afterwards, min. a couple thousand
• Take a nice headshot
• Make sure all travel documents are up to date
  • At the time of job market, more than 1 year to expiration
  • Apply for passport if needed, check country for issuing delays
• Talk to people…
  • Recently on the job market
  • In roles that you are interested in

Applications

• Double-check what timezone each application site runs on
• Set up alert on USAjobs for the Economist job family
  • Data Scientist, Statistician also relevant
• Mention referrals in cover letter
• Turn off spam filtering on your phone in case calls are blocked

First-Round Interviews

• Record a test interview using the camera and microphone to check image and audio quality
  • Consider investing in external camera and microphone for computers pre-2020
• If possible, sit in front of windows for natural lighting
  • Consider investing in lights if video is consistently dark
• Clear background of items as much as possible

Flyouts

• Be gracious to everyone
• Given the choice, always buy refundable flights
• Have a credit card with min. $5k limit
  • Look out for sign-up bonuses
  • Some travel-focused credit cards provide reimbursements for TSA-Precheck, Global Entry, CLEAR, etc., preferential airline treatment, trip insurance, lounge access
• Buy extra items just for your carry-on to minimize re-packing and forgetting items between flyouts
  • Chargers, wires, clickers, adapters, USB drive
  • Hygiene routine
  • Basic medication: antidiarrheal, upset stomach, pain relievers, antihistamines, etc.
• Keep all receipts and/or scan using a phone app

General

• Everyone’s job market is unique, comparison is self-defeating
• It’s a two-way match; rejections are also two-way
• Do not feel guilty about making things easier for yourself (within financial reason):
  • e.g. hiring a cleaning service, buying coffees, getting takeout

Error in R

Error: ‘m’ is not a unit recognized by udunits or a user-defined unit

Error Installing Homebrew

(base) michelle@MacBook-Pro ~ % /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" ==> Checking for sudo access (which may request your password)... Password: ==> This script will install: /opt/homebrew/bin/brew /opt/homebrew/share/doc/homebrew /opt/homebrew/share/man/man1/brew.1 /opt/homebrew/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew /opt/homebrew/etc/bash_completion.d/brew /opt/homebrew

Press RETURN to continue or any other key to abort: ==> /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/chown -R michelle:admin /opt/homebrew ==> Downloading and installing Homebrew… xcrun: error: unable to load libxcrun (dlopen(/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/lib/libxcrun.dylib, 0x0005): tried: ‘/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/lib/libxcrun.dylib’ (mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have ‘x86_64’, need ‘arm64e’)), ‘/usr/lib/libxcrun.dylib’ (no such file)). Failed during: git init -q</code>

Step 1: Re-install Command Line Tools

Go to Apple Developer to download the latest Command Line Tools. Install.

Step 2: Install Homebrew in Terminal

Run the following command. For the most updated command, visit Homebrew.

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Step 3: Configure Homebrew in Terminal

Note that following three commands will differ based on your setup. The first two lines come from the output in Step 2.

echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' >> /Users/michelle/.zprofile eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)" brew bundle dump

Step 4: Install udunits2 in R

install.packages("udunits2",configure.args='--with-udunits2-include=/usr/include/udunits2')