章奎亮：“跨界”商科生，实力诠释数据分析从入门到大神

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Please scroll down for the English version - UNNC business student receives offer as data analyst.

提到学校的金融财务与管理专业，你会想到什么？金融、投行、咨询，或是银行？即将毕业的章奎亮给了我们另一种答案。

在上学期的秋招中，他凭借不俗的学术成绩和实习背景，一路过关斩将，在“最难求职季”斩获了字节跳动的游戏数据分析offer。

在记录自己求职经历的文字中，章奎亮说自己是“一个非典型背景的人”——本科期间读的是商科，职业方向却走了技术路线，求职之路对“跨界”的他似乎也并不友好。

那么，他究竟是如何做到的呢？

火爆全校的小程序，出自他手

早在高中，章奎亮就获得过全国信息学奥林匹克竞赛二等奖，与计算机结下缘分。

大学期间，章奎亮选择了自己同样很喜欢的商科，但却从未放弃计算机的爱好。或许你没听说过他的名字，但只要是一名UNNCer，就一定知道uCourse和UNNCMap这两款火爆全校的小程序。在uCourse里，你能找到学校所有课程的信息，从课程表到课程测评一站搞定。UNNCMap则可谓是宁诺版的谷歌地图，能探索学校的各栋建筑，是初来乍到的新生们必备的小程序。这两款小程序均隶属uFair开发团队，而章奎亮正是团队的初创成员之一。

“我当时负责程序开发。”这次创业让章奎亮开始学习写代码，他的技术能力随之得到飞跃般提升，用户数据仓库的搭建、自动化数据处理与分析的中台系统开发都由他带领团队一起完成。

渐渐地，这个致力于为宁诺学子提升学习体验的小程序拥有了越来越多用户。团队从最开始的四五个人，壮大到三十人左右。uFair的创业成果也初步显露，“现在每天平均有三千左右的日活、一万多次的访问量。”章奎亮对此十分自豪。

创业同时，他还在Coursera上学习了关于数据库、数据可视化、编程语言、机器学习等课程，课程数量和时长甚至能和学校的专业课齐平。在这一路“杂食”中，章奎亮逐渐对数据分析有了更深入的了解。为了离这个领域更近一步，他选择在大三之后gap一年，去滴滴出行国际化数据分析部门进行全职实习。

工作期间，章奎亮根据业务指标建立了自动化场景挖掘方案，分析墨西哥乘客订单取消率上升的原因；还通过乘客订单的海量数据，建立机器学习模型，预测乘客流失率和将来成交额，准确率高达90%。“这次实习拓宽了我的视野，我更加认定数据分析是自己想要的职业方向。”

跨界求职，“虽千万人吾往矣”

章奎亮原本计划在本科之后去读数据分析方向的研究生，却被突如其来的疫情打乱阵脚。“当时非常焦虑，”他这样形容过去的那几个月，“是朋友和老师的鼓励给了我继续前进的自信和动力。”学校身心健康指导中心主任Patti Wallace是他最想感谢的人。“从大一到大四，Patti一直给予我很大帮助，让我逐渐认清自己的内心，也终于能够坦然面对人生中不可控的因素。”

最终，他决定放弃申研。

“学习商科教会我如何与人沟通合作，校内创业让我学会如何管理团队，在自学和实习中付出的努力让我有勇气面对技术上的挑战，我想冲一冲秋招。”

章奎亮用3个词总结自己的求职之路——艰辛、运气、实力。“遇到过很多对我跨专业申请技术岗位的质疑，也遇到过靠实力证明自己的高光时刻——看到面试官眼睛慢慢变亮，我知道自己并不差。”

他在文字记述中写道：

“和大部分人一样，我遇到的失败远远多于成功。但是我相信，只要遵从自己内心想做的事情，总有一天会有一道缝为我们打开。而我们要做的，就是从缝中钻过去。”

凭借着“商科+技术”这样一份看似“割裂”的履历，章奎亮终于拿到了自己满意的offer。

即使确定了未来的方向，章奎亮依然闲不住，“得知今后团队的同事都很厉害，其中有来自杜克大学和香港中文大学的数据分析硕士生，我真的不敢停下来，”他说，“在正式入职前的这半年，我还会夯实一下以往学过的知识，并进行一些拓展。”

UNNC business student receives offer as data analyst

Kuiliang Zhang, a Year 4 Finance, Accounting and Management (FAM) student at University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC), recently received an offer from ByteDance as a game data analyst.

At high school, Kuiliang was interested in computer science and won second prize in the National Olympiad in Informatics. Although he chose FAM for his undergraduate study, he has never abandoned his interest in computer science.

As an initiator and co-founder of uFair, Kuiliang made significant contribution to the development of the two popular WeChat Mini Programmes, uCourse and UNNCMap, which dedicated to improving the learning experience for UNNC students. He and his team was responsible for the development of the user data warehouse and automatic data processing systems, during which his programming capabilities significantly improved.

In the meanwhile, Kuiliang spent a large amount of time on Coursera to learn things like databases, data visualisation and machine learning. With a deeper understanding of data analysis, Kuiliang decided to take a gap year to do a full-time internship as a data analyst for Didi.

Despite a dramatically increased workload and complexity of data, he developed a machine learning model to predict passenger churn rates and future turnover with an accuracy rate of 90%. "This internship has broadened my horizons and I’m more determined to become a data analyst," Kuiliang said.

Before the pandemic, Kuiliang had planned to pursue a Master’s in data analysis. “I was quite anxious because of the disruption.” He recalled that Patti Wallace, Head of the University Counselling Service, gave him great support. “She helped me to figure out my real thoughts and embrace the uncontrollable factors in life.”

He finally turned to seek for employment and stood out among numerous excellent competitors to obtain the offer from ByteDance. “Studying business let me know how to communicate and cooperate, and campus entrepreneurship taught me management. What I learned and experienced gave me the confidence to face any possible difficulties.” Kuiliang summarised job hunting as obstacles, luck and capability.

Although clear about his passion and career direction, Kuiliang never stopped enriching his own knowledge and capabilities. “I know my prospective colleagues are superb, so I want to take the half-year before work to review what I have learned.”

文字来源 |李懿婷，ETT

图片来源 | 章奎亮，ACDO

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