 What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another video. Today, we're going to be taking a look at Career Foundry's Data Analyst Boot Camp. Now, Career Foundry essentially has three tiers. They have the free tier, they have an intro tier, and then they have the boot camp, which they call like an immersion program or the data analyst program. But I call it a boot camp because that's what I just know them as. Now, as most of you know, I am not a huge fan of boot camps as a whole. So the fact that I'm even reviewing this one shows that there are some things that I'm going to like about it, but they have the data analyst boot camp. They have an intro and they have the free tier and I'm going to review all of them. And we're just going to see how good they are. But before we dive into the review, I want to give a huge shout out to the sponsor of this video, and that is Career Foundry. Career Foundry is a platform to help you change your career. They offer programs in data analytics, UX and UI design, web development, digital marketing and more. They offer tutoring, mentorship and job guarantees as part of their program. I will have all their links in the description if you want to go and check them out. You heard that right. Career Foundry is sponsoring this video, but they are not making me say anything. Career Foundry reached out to me asking if I'd review their analytics courses. And so this video is in collaboration with them so that you can hear all about it. So they've given me access to all of their courses and their boot camps so I can get in there and mess around with everything and check out everything to see if I actually like it. And so if there are things that I don't like about Career Foundry, I'm going to tell you when they gave me full permission to do so. And you may not know this, but I'm super picky with who I actually choose to sponsor these videos or my channel in general. So I dug into their platform a lot before I actually let them be a sponsor. And they originally contacted me just to look at the free course and the intro course, but as they started digging in even more, I found the boot camp. And I was like, this is actually a pretty interesting value proposition for several different reasons. And there might be some people out there who really are interested in this. So I kind of asked them, Hey, can I review the boot camp while I'm at it? Because this kind of looks really interesting. So with all that being said, let's show them on my screen, start taking a look and see if Career Foundry is any good. All right. So here's the data analytics program. I'm going to call it a boot camp throughout this entire thing because that's just what I know it as. But this is their program. It says it has a job guarantee right here. Become a data analyst under eight months, flexibility of learning online without having to quit your job and work with expert mentors and build your portfolio. All sounds very promising, but let's take a deeper look into this. Let's scroll down really quickly. Here's some of the details, some of the things that you get out of here. So you're going to learn all the skills and tools to become a data analyst, you'll work one-on-one with a mentor and tutor. You'll receive coaching with career services to ensure that you stand out in interviews. And I'll talk a little bit more about that later. You'll receive tailored coaching from their career services team. You'll build a portfolio and then you'll land a job within 180 days of graduating the program or your money back. Now you guys already know a job guarantee is super important to me. So if they don't have a job guarantee, I usually am like, don't go with that program. Let's skip really quickly to probably the most important part, which is the price because the price is extremely, extremely important. Right now, you can pay and you can just kind of just do your thing where you pay 2100 a month at 600 for eight months and it costs about $7,000. Or you can pay it all up front in like a lump sum for $6,500. And then they have some other options as well where you can take out a loan, do $158 per month and you pay that off or you can do a deferred plan where you pay later and you basically just apply through this program or whatever they have and you can start it and you start paying later. Now right off the bat, $7,000 is kind of a lot of money. For me personally, when I was first starting out, I didn't have $7,000. I just, I didn't. And so $7,000 is a lot, but that's really cheap. That's kind of on the lower end of boot camps. You, most of them, you'll see 10,000, 12,000, 15,000. $7,000 is pretty reasonable for a boot camp. I do like though that they have other options to pay if you, you know, want to defer it or you want to take out, you know, do monthly installments or payments, I like that they have that. Now, because you guys are watching this right now, Career Frontery said I could offer you a 20% discount. I'm not going to make any money off this at all. This isn't like an affiliate link or anything. It's just 20% off. So if you want it at the end of this video, you want to do this and you want to take this course, they're going to give you 20% off. Again, there's no kickback to me. So this 7,000 at 20% off will become like 5,500, which is like $1,500 off. So, you know, 5,500 in this place is even more affordable, right? It's even more on the lower end. So once we walk through everything, if you're like, this is for you, use those links in the description because again, it's just free money. I'm just trying to help you guys out. I don't get anything from it. Now, the only thing that you have to do in order to get that 20% discount is to actually schedule a call with one of their advisors. So I will have a link in the description if you want to do that. The next most important thing when I'm looking at this is the job guarantee. So let's go over to this next tab. If you sign up for this, you spend the $7,000 and then all of a sudden you're like, I cannot find a job. I've been playing everywhere, yada yada, I can't find a job and now you're out 7 grand, that would suck. So you want to have a good program that offers a job guarantee or your money back. So let's see just what it offers and how that works because again, I want you guys to know this just in case you guys sign up for this. So it says right here, if you're eligible for the job guarantee, you will receive a 100% tuition refund if you don't land a job in your new field within six months of completing the program. Here is the actual eligibility requirements in order to get that job guarantee. You have to be at least 18 years old. You have to live in or be willing to relocate to an eligible metropolitan area. You're open to both remote or on-site in-person positions. You've completed your program and paid your tuition in full and you've completed the job prep course, kept in touch with your career specialist and followed the job search advice. So in a nutshell, you have to have completed the program. You have to have paid for the program and then you have to be working with the career specialist who's literally there to help you find a job. You have to be working with them and actively applying for jobs. And if you cannot find any job in your industry, which is data analytics, then you get your money back. And I think that is the goal out of all this. To me, that is a very reasonable kind of like refund policy, right? That seems very reasonable. It's not like you have to apply for like 500 jobs. Just as you have to be actively applying, you have to complete the program. You have to be working with your specialist, which are all things that you should be doing anyways. Like you should be working with the person who's trying to help you get a job. It just, it seems pretty straightforward. It seems pretty reasonable. I like this job guarantee or kind of refund policy that they have. I think it's, you know, just pretty decent. Now let's take a look at the curriculum, the actual stuff they're going to be learning because that's pretty important too, of course. So this is the data immersion. We're looking at like a part time. So it kind of gives you, you know, how long it's going to take. So if you go down here for this data immersion program, you have six achievements and in each one you learn a different skill. So in this first one, you're looking at basically like Excel. And you learn a lot about just like what data is, all of these things. And then you go into the visualization part of it, which they learn everything in Tableau, which I really like. Then we have SQL for analysts and I've taken a look at every single one of these achievements and I'll kind of show you how they teach it. But I've looked at all of these and all of the stuff that they're teaching you looks very much like things I would recommend you learning. They may not go super, super in-depth in every single area, but they definitely go in-depth enough. I can guarantee you that. Like it's not like they go to the where statement in SQL and then they're done, like you learn enough to where you're pretty secure. The next thing that they teach is Python fundamentals for data analysts, all really good stuff. And then we have data ethics. And then the very last one is advanced analytics and dashboard design where you design a dashboard and you actually have to give a presentation to your mentor at the end of this where they give feedback, which was really, really interesting. So again, CareerFoundry gave me access to everything. And so I'm going to show you kind of what the learning portal looks like for students. And it's right here. This is the Intro to Data Analytics portion. Whether you just sign up for the intro course, which is this one, or the entire bootcamp as a whole, everybody starts out with this Intro to Data Analytics course. Now, before we get more into this, I want to mention that you have this mentor call right over here. Now, the mentorship piece to me is probably one of the biggest value propositions for taking something like this, right? Because you can go and you can learn probably most of this or a lot of this online by yourself. But the mentorship piece and the tutor piece, which I'll show you the tutor side of things in just a second, that to me is where a lot of the value is because they teach you and they coach you and they help guide you where you may just not be able to do that or know a lot of these things if you just learn everything by yourself. Now, I actually got on a call with my mentor William because I wanted to see what that mentorship looked like. And so I'm going to give you a little clip on what William finds is the most important thing or the best value proposition for this entire program, which kind of backs up what I was just saying about how the mentorship piece is really important. From my experience, the mentors and tutors are what really make Career Foundry different. People say, I looked at this competitor, this competitor, I looked at Career Foundry and what made me choose it was a fact that you had to available to talk to your mentor and work with your tutor. Because that's not a feature of other boot camps, they can give you real life examples. They can say, this is actually used because I've done something like this in my job. So that's a really fundamental boost for this course. So again, that mentorship piece is just super important. Now, again, I came here to show you what the portal looks like. So this is your first achievement. These are all your courses that you're going to go through in this achievement. Let's click into one really quickly. We'll go to Visualizing Data Insights. So this is what almost all the courses look like. We have some type of reading and then within it, they have visuals and some videos as well to kind of walk you through these things. And I found the reading pretty easy. But if you don't like reading, this program may not be for you. I tend to like more videos but they have quite a bit of videos within them. So I found it like at least engaging enough to where I can get to the videos, it'll fill in some of the gaps and then I can do my reading as well. But let's scroll down, you'll see all these different videos and images that they have. And they walk you through each of these things. I would say pretty in depth. I mean, everything's very, very in depth. I'm skipping all the way to the bottom. So don't mind me. All right, so then at the very bottom, they have these resources for kind of the stuff that you just walked through and then you have your quizzes. So you have to take quizzes to make sure that you actually did the reading, you know what you're working on. And then you have tasks. Now, these tasks are not easy. Like they are not just like, oh, you can kind of guess and you'll get it right and go on to the next area. Like you have to put a lot of work into these, which is in my opinion, a very good thing. When you submit these, your tutor is going to review them, give you feedback, ask you to redo them. Like it's like you're getting live feedback. So they aren't super, super easy, but they walk through the directions of how to clean data, work with data in all these things like in Python, Tableau, Python Excel. And you have to go through, do the tasks and then submit them at the bottom. And then they'll kind of, you know, you'll get feedback basically. Now my tutor is Elizabeth. So when I go in here and actually submit my work, Elizabeth is going to message me and say, hey, great job. Or, you know, Alex, this needs a lot of work, which is most likely what she would say. And this is what it looks like. And then you can have this discussions where they actually have these forums, like over here. They have these forums where you can ask questions from other people who are taking the course or have taken it. But, you know, you can just message your tutor or your mentor and they will help you directly. So for me, the forum isn't, that's not something that I would use. I would most likely just reach out to my tutor or my mentor and ask them directly. And then you can see my team right down here. Elizabeth Decker is my tutor. We have William Tracy is my mentor. Laura, Sarah and Karina are the student advisors. So overall, what do I think about the bootcamp piece of Career Foundry? I think it is decently priced, especially if you get the 20% discount. Like if you were looking for a bootcamp, $5,500 with that 20% discount, that is a really good deal compared to other bootcamps. Again, I'm not saying you need to go take this bootcamp. I'm just saying that if you're looking for a bootcamp, this is a very well-priced bootcamp. I also think that the mentorship piece is probably the biggest value proposition of everything. And you get 100 calls through that mentorship. Most people are not going to be able to even reach that 100 calls. I mean, that is a lot of calls. And you can also message them whenever you want and they'll get back to you. So you don't just have to do the calls, you can also message them. I think the mentorship piece and the tutor piece is, honestly, that's the biggest value proposition. Like if you're somebody who needs or really wants somebody who can give you immediate feedback, they can walk you through the processes, walk you through everything, like that to me is one of the biggest value propositions. And then they have a job guarantee, which I didn't talk about this a lot, but those student advisors, those are like career specialists. Those career specialists are there to help you find a job because if they don't get you a job, you're gonna ask for a refund and they're gonna give it to you. And so they have a huge stake in helping you find a job because that's how they make money. And to me, that's super important. So to me, if you were paying $5,500 and you have a job guarantee in place and you can potentially earn $40, $50, $60,000 right off the bat, for some people out there that is absolutely going to be worth it. But that's completely up to you, right? It just depends on how you learn what you're looking for in a bootcamp, your pricing and what you can afford. All those things come into consideration. But if you're just looking at it for, if you pay $5,500 and you can guarantee you get a job or your money back, to me that's a pretty good deal instead of paying like $15,000 upfront and having no job guarantee which has how some programs do it. This one to me makes just a lot more sense than a lot of the other bootcamps. That's why I, when I was looking at their stuff, I was like, hey, can I talk about your bootcamp? Because I actually kind of like this one. I know you didn't want me to talk about it but I want to talk about it because I found it a pretty good value proposition for what you're getting. All right, so we just talked about their bootcamp which is like their large program but they also have an intro course for data analytics and it's much, much, much smaller. And so let's take a look at this one really quickly. Learn the essentials of data analytics in a month, study your own pace and you get a mentor and tutor. So even in the intro course you still get to use their mentors and tutors and let's get right to it with the price. It is $690 upfront but if you go and you take the bigger course which is the bootcamp, you get 590 of that back. So if you kind of want to dip your toes in the water you just want to kind of see what your, if you like it or you don't like it, you can buy this and you can do the intro course and if you don't like it, you don't have to do it or if you do take the bootcamp then you get this credit back and my career foundry was generous enough to give a 25% discount on this. So if you want to try this one you can get a 25% discount on this one forever. So this one, if you are seeing this in 10 years that discount will still be available. Again, I make no money off this so I'm just, you know, it's there for you if you want it. Again, to get that discount you just have to talk with an advisor before I have a link in the description if you want to do that. So now what do you get for the $690 price? Well, the first thing and probably the best thing about it is you get two mentorship calls. To me, that's the biggest selling point of this whole thing is you get two mentorship calls because even if you just do mentorship calls that's like $350 a piece. There are mentors out there who charge like $400, $500 per call. So just in that, I think that is the biggest value proposition. You also get the tutor which we talked about who they review your work and then you get the actual coursework. Now the intro to data analytics course is only the Excel portion of the full bootcamp. So if we go over here and we look at this this is the intro to data analytics. This is the Excel that we were just looking at like with the bootcamp. This is what you will get for the introductory program. So you're not going to get the SQL and the Python and the Tableau. It's just the Excel to kind of see if you like it right. It's the intro course to see if you want to go and take the bootcamp. But if we scroll all the way to the bottom you still have your quizzes, you have your tasks and then of course your tutor will come and grade your work and you'll get that back. Again, if it was just the coursework I would not be paying $690 for this. That's just my honest opinion. I think really the biggest value proposition for this is the mentorship. You get to talk to people, walk through these things. You have a full hour to talk about whatever you want to talk about. That to me is the biggest selling points to this introductory course as well as the bootcamp as well. Because the mentorship then you have unlimited calls. But for this introductory one the coursework is really good. I have no problem with the coursework itself but I wouldn't pay $690 just for the coursework. The mentorship is what really sells it for me. So if you're interested in the bootcamp but you don't really wanna like dive in and pay the full price this might be something that you look at. And lastly, this is Career Foundry's short course which is their free email course. And if you sign up you're gonna get this email right here. It says welcome to day one and at the very bottom it says click here to make your way to tutorial one. We'll click on that. As you can see you get all five emails. But when you click on that you have access to all their tutorials as well as their final test. So how these work is you basically read through them and they're very easy to go through. It's a lot of reading but they also do have some things like videos and images as well to kinda walk you through the concepts which are really great. But up at the top in each section you can kinda see what you're going to learn in that tutorial. This one is like what is data analysis? Why is it in demand? What do they do? That's what this one does. And again it's pretty easy how they walk through it. It's not anything super confusing. They use a lot of graphs and images which as a data analyst you should appreciate. And if we go to tutorial two it is an introduction to data cleaning which I've talked about many times data cleaning is super important. And they'll talk about what data cleaning is and why it matters and some of the key steps in data cleaning which is really great. And again it's going to literally walk you through these things. And as you get close to the end they're gonna teach you how to do this in Excel. They're not gonna go crazy advanced. You know again this is a short free tutorial to help you learn some of these concepts which is really great for it just being free. And they walk you through in Excel and they even provide a data set for you to actually practice these things. And then if we wanna go to the next tutorial just click right up here and we go to the next one. In tutorial three you learn about descriptive statistics and exploratory data analysis. Great topics to think about and learn about but it tells you what exploratory data analysis is what descriptive statistics are. And you can click on any of these and it'll take you to that. And you know for descriptive statistics it'll talk about frequency distribution, measures of central tendency, measures of variability. Things that you may have never heard of before or concepts you've never heard of you know they're here for free if you wanna learn about them. Let's go to the next one. Tutorial four is an introduction to data visualization super important for a data analyst to know how to do. And it kinda walks you through what data visualization is. Why is it important for a data analyst? And it gives you a lot of examples, right? So it kinda prompts you to think about what have you used data visualization for or what kind of apps or things do you use? And they show you and it's just pretty neat to be honest. And then on tutorial five we have storytelling with data and storytelling is usually like the very last piece in the data analyst life cycle. And it teaches you how to kind of talk to the stakeholders about your findings and your visualizations. And so they tell you why it's important and how to do this. And again, super easy to follow, really, really great. And then you have a final quiz. So let's click on the final quiz. We're gonna go right down here and it says it's time to take a test. And if you score 70% or higher you get 5% off the full data analytics program which I mean don't take the 5%, don't take the 20 if you're gonna do one of these but let's click on take the test and get started. It says what is the average salary of a data analyst in the United States? All right, I'm gonna take this really quick. I'm gonna show you just a few questions then I'm gonna see how I did. But I'm gonna say around 50,000. All right, well I got a 70% so I mean I'm doing my best here, I tried. But overall I think it's a really good free tutorial series just to kind of get an introduction to a lot of these higher level concepts. They also teach you some of these things. So overall I liked it and so if you wanna try it out it's completely free, just gotta sign up for it. But I'm kind of disappointed in my test results but I thought it was pretty neat. There's a lot of good stuff in there. So that is the career foundry platform as a whole for data analyst, right? They have the bootcamp, they have the introductory course and the free course, each of them offers a little different flavor, a little different pricing but look into it, I found it really interesting. That is the only reason why I'm doing this review and letting them be a sponsor is because I genuinely found it really good and a good value proposition for what you're getting compared to a lot of other competitors that I have personally looked at. Like I've looked at a hundred other bootcamps and there have been very, very few that I've even been like, you know this is one that you should consider. And to me again, they're not paying me to say this but I think this is a pretty good option if you are wanting a bootcamp. So if you've taken a look at everything and you're like, I really want to try this go ahead and click on the links in the description. They'll give you discounts. I don't make anything from it. I just want you to save money because I myself love saving money. And I forgot to mention that they have a 14 day no questions asked full refund on their introductory course and their full course. So if you were just curious and you want to test it out you can do that with basically no risk. Thank you guys so much for watching. Be sure to check out the links in the description. Go and check out Career Foundry's YouTube page for data analyst content. And if you liked this video be sure to like and subscribe below. I will see you in the next video.