SDP Hiring Resources
After more than 15 years of recruiting, screening, placing, and training analytic talent, we have some lessons learned. We share these lessons openly because hiring data talent well is a collective challenge in education. Our reflections and resources below are meant to be practical, adaptable, and grounded in real hiring decisions, not abstract ideals.
Hiring Resources
Access the individual components of this hiring series' resources.
Before You Hire: Role Clarity Conversation
A facilitation guide for a 30-minute conversation to design an education data role before hiring.
Hiring for Humility and Integrity
A checklist for hiring managers screening for humility and integrity in education data candidates.
Hiring for Analytic Entrepreneurship
A checklist for hiring managers screening for analytic entreprenurship in education data candidates.
Hiring for Data Communication
A checklist for hiring managers screening for communication in education data candidates.
The future of public sector data will be shaped less by who has the flashiest résumé, and more by who can do the slow, human work of continually learning and turning evidence into action.
Reflections
Reflections after 15 years of recruiting, hiring, and placing data talent in education organizations.
Of course, we ruthlessly assess technical skills. Strong data analysis, statistics, coding, and visualization skills are all necessary. But technical skill alone is not enough. What matters just as much is how someone uses those skills in relationships with others, and what they do when data doesn't cooperate.