How should I bounce back after an almost 5 year hiatus?

Given the recent explosion of LLMs, GenAI, and the likes, how do I go about charting my career trajectory?

I have been on maternity leave since late last year and was laid off before the leave started. Before that, I was at a small startup since the beginning of the pandemic and my work mainly resembled academic projects like demonstrating predictive modelling on publicly available datasets, generating insights and developing pipelines for small (~200k rows) databases. Fwiw, I was at …

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