I am SAS certified -- how do gain experience using SAS and apply for jobs?

[Vaishali1]

Hello SAS community,

I am SAS certified programmer.  I am looking for advise on how to get my SAS career on path.  My background is in Molecular Biology and I don't use SAS at my work.  I would like to gain experience using SAS.  Would anyone have any suggestions on how I can gain the experience-- would doing volunteer work handling clinical data using SAS be helpful?  Where can I seek out these opportunities?  I would appreciate guidance and advise.

thank you,

Vaishali

[Reeza]

Sign up for SAS University Edition or Academics on Demand.

Answer questions here.

[Vaishali1]

Thank you Reeza for your suggestion.  I will sign up the SAS University Edition.

Is there anything in specific I should look at to get the experience I need?

thank your for your help,

Vaishali 🙂

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@Vaishali1 wrote:

Thank you Reeza for your suggestion.  I will sign up the SAS University Edition.

Is there anything in specific I should look at to get the experience I need?

thank your for your help,

Vaishali 🙂

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Any question posted here is worth looking into. Some will be out of your ballpark, but the rate of those where you can help will increase with every one that challenged your knowledge and skills.

Just today I learned some interesting facts about PROC EXPAND, although we don't even use it (no ETS license where I work). Applying Maxim 1 for someone else will do that.

[Kurt_Bremser]

A lot of accepted solutions here will look quite nice on your resume.

[Reeza]

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@Kurt_Bremser wrote:

A lot of accepted solutions here will look quite nice on your resume.

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That's a line item I'd better start adding to my resume then!

[SASKiwi]

@Reeza  - I'm wondering if my mineral rating will help too! 😉

[Kurt_Bremser]

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@Reeza wrote:

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@Kurt_Bremser wrote:

A lot of accepted solutions here will look quite nice on your resume.

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That's a line item I'd better start adding to my resume then!

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If a link to your Community profile does not immediately ring all available bells, it's hopeless.

[Vaishali1]

thank you mr. Bremser,

I very much appreciate your suggestions - I will have a look into them and see if they would apply to my experience level.

Vaishali 🙂

[ballardw]

You might look for local organizations that need help with data and volunteer. Many local non-profits or charitable organizations run on low budgets but need some sort of data help. Mostly it would be more in the form of data management, i.e. creating consistent usable data , and summaries or reporting.

If there is a field you are interested in then find local organizations and see if they have unpaid intern type positions doing something related to your interests.

[Vaishali1]

Thank you very much for your suggestion.  I have inquired at a local non-profit.  This experience will be mostly data management, I will get more information eventually if there is an opportunity available -- but had a question, how do I make this into showing that I have experience using SAS.  All the jobs that I have seeing require couple of years of experience.

thanks,

Vaishali 🙂

[BeverlyBrown]

Hi @Vaishali1, congratulations on your certification. Your fellow community members have given great advice so far. One other thing you might consider is publishing how-to articles in the SAS Communities Library. SAS employees lead the way in publishing articles, but any member somewhat active in here earns publishing privileges. Here's an article on that: https://communities.sas.com/t5/Community-Memo/3-reasons-why-you-should-write-an-article-for-the-SAS/... And here's an example of articles published by community member @ChrisBrooks: https://communities.sas.com/t5/tag/Free%20Data%20Friday/tg-p/board-id/library. Best of luck to you!

[Vaishali1]

Hello Ms. Brown,

thank you very much for your suggestion -- I will take a look into it.

Vaishali 🙂