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Mike Crabtree

I'm the senior director of a $5 billion data company; before that, I was a manager at Ford. I took 25 online courses and earned certificates from Coursera, edX, and LinkedIn Learning. Focusing on hard skills like data analysis as well as management helped me move up in my career.

This as-told-to story is based on a conversation with Mike Crabtree, the Senior Director of Data Operations &...

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