Analytical Candidates You May Not Have Considered I’ve been thinking about the problems many of us have in recruiting analytical talent since IIA’s 2011 Predictions webinar. Talent acquisition and talent development are topics that tend to spark passionate debate; even Jim Goodnight and William Green spent time on the topic at their keynote during the [...]
Several years ago, we noticed some interesting new executive titles elevating the stature of analytics: Chief Analytics Officer and Chief Problem-Solving Officer. The CAO title even has a Wikipedia entry. In addition, other titles we have seen for a while are starting to span into more industries: Chief Scientist (not for your typical research organization, [...]
IIA members forecast a strong 2010 with increases in spending and hiring.
“I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians,” said Hal Varian, chief economist at Google in today’s New York Times front page story on the demand for data savvy grads. “And I’m not kidding.” Demand for quants is growing, as we in analytics have known for some time. [...]
