Day: February 10, 2022

FYI: International Students majoring in Business Analytics at WMU can get a 3-year visa extension for their OPTs. Why is the U.S. doing this? Answer: we need more people with data analytics skills... The US government has added data science and financial analytics to the list of degrees where international students can get a three-year visa extension after graduating instead of the standard one year. https://lnkd.in/gTDtDavDActually, at WMU, Business Analytics is in its own STEM...

SCM Data Scientist (171K jobs on LinkedIn!), Does your school teach this (we do)? Employers place a premium on - 1. Advanced Excel (power query & pivot) & macros; 2. Data visualization (Tableau, Power BI & python w/ seaborn & matplotlib);3. Data mining/RapidMiner, machine learning & data science;4. Python & Jupyter notebook (data analytics & statistical libraries such as pandas, numpy);5. Relational data models (Excel data model);6. Graphic & statistical libraries...

11 trendy things we are doing in the WMU ISM supply chain program… 1.     Global Negotiation: The fastest growing class in the WMU ISM program - https://lnkd.in/guTUcvdu___2.     Getting hit with a price increase? We will be looking at raw material market data from multiple sources, we will visualize and analyze historical pricing scenarios, & do some simulating on planned purchases & what-if scenarios against forward price curves. Managers love this cloud platform. https://lnkd.in/gJnbxSBk___3.    We use...

Great read: https://lnkd.in/gCiYgwS2 - "Salaries in SCM are going up & already average $10K-$20K higher than entry-level positions in other fields." Quickest way to six figures? Answer: SCM - https://lnkd.in/guSURWFFEven though ‘Supply chain’ makes Lake Superior State University’s list of banned terms for 2022 - https://lnkd.in/eeeNxAHz,the placement success & starting salaries for WMU ISM is off the charts. *Median salary for all WMU ISM degrees was $60K-$65K (around 10% of grads hired on w/ one auto...