Ivy Dec 16, 2014 No Comments
In a fast-evolving analytics landscape, analytics hiring is on a steep curve – increased by more than 80 % over the past year!
Let us examine what is trending with respect to analytics hiring:
HIRERs
Who are currently the top analytics hirers?
Dunnhumby, Sapient, Cognizant, Reverse Logistics, Infoexcel Consulting, Genpact
Which employers offer competitive packages?
Flipkart, Fractal, MuSigma, Dell, Cognizant, JP Morgan Chase, Genpact
Which practice areas / industries are hiring the most?
eCommerce, Retail, BPO, KPO, ITES, LPO, Niche analytics (Social media, Data mining) Banking & Financial, Management Consulting, Pharma
Which areas/ sectors have made a recent entry in Analytics hiring?
Clinical Research, Automobiles, Customer Science, Supply Chain Logistics, Telecom, Operations Research, Aviation
Government Departments – National Institute for Smart Government, Income Tax Department, Customs & Excise, National Informatics Centre, Agriculture, Fisheries, Regulators (SEBI, RBI)
Universities, Research wings of Organisations
Analytics and Data vendors
JOB ROLES
What job roles are the most advertised?
Data Analyst, Business Analyst, Data Scientist, Data Mining Specialist, Manager – Retail / Customer / Marketing Analytics, SAS Analyst, Statistical Analyst
What job roles are in high demand across industries?
Experts in Big Data Analytics, Fraud Analytics, Digital Analytics, Customer Analytics, Cloud and BI, SAS Modelling
Analytics Consultant, Lead-data Visualization Specialist, Data Miner – Big Data, Strategy Consulting
Which are the newly defined job roles?
Experts / Managers in Perceptive Analytics, Product and Pricing Analytics, Compensation Analytics
Quants, Sports Data Scientist
Which job roles have good potential in 2015 and beyond?
Big Data Analytics, Retail and Customer Analytics, Cloud and BI Analytics, Digital Analytics, Fraud Analytics, Operations Research, Supply Chain
Big Data Mining Specialists, Data Scientists
PACKAGES
In terms of earning potential, professionals who are conversant with more analytical techniques, machine learning and software, occupy a unique position to command top salary packages and job roles.
Students with excellent soft skills and domain knowledge are in a position to secure competitive entry jobs.
Experience in niche practice areas, development and Big Data streams are high grosser.
SKILL REQUIREMENTS
What skills are most sought?
SAS, SPSS, R, Big Data, Excel, Hadoop, SQL, PowerPoint, Tableau
Soft skills
Data Management / Modelling, Algorithm Development, Dashboard Development, Predictive Analytics, Logistic Regression, Developing
What technical skills command best salary packages?
Big Data, Cloud, R, Hadoop, Tableau, BI, Data Mining, Statistical techniques
Preferred Soft skills
Client facing, presentation, analytical / logical thinking, project management, team player
HIRING HOTSPOTS
Which cities currently lead in analytics hiring?
(listed in order)
What is the hiring trend at Kolkata?
Start-ups, Corporate houses – ITES, B&FS, KPO, BPO
BI, Retail, Web, Big Data-GIS, Social Media, Text Analytics
Note: These are trends reflected during this last quarter of 2014 and may/may not be the same as previous or oncoming trends
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