What Skills Do You Need For A Career Shift To Business Analytics?

Business Analytics is one of the most sought after career moves in the corporate world today.

With respect to this, several questions must be plaguing you.

Do I need ‘deep’ statistical knowledge?

Which tools should I learn on a need-to-know basis?

What other technical skills can get me a good offer?

What soft skills do I need to build up for analytics job roles?

Businesses today are increasingly become diverse and complex. Job roles call for cross-functional skills. For instance, it is no longer enough for a student of Business Economics to be proficient in the application of economic theory to business decisions. He is also expected to understand implications of financial trends and political actions on businesses.

Analytics applies to a range of scenarios and industries, and calls for a great deal of dexterity and span in skill sets. It involves working with numbers, complex algorithms, and a deep knowledge of the problem to arrive at solutions. Organizations typically look for professionals with multi-disciplinary skill sets. Although not an absolute must, the professional who has a range of skills across several functions or domains, is the one who can command his salary package.

You can take the Business Analytics Certification programme to embrace the following skills

Technical

Good tools are building blocks for future needs. Each tool has a different role. Nevertheless, the general purpose tools you HAVE to master are

• Excel, R, VBA, and be familiar with at least one front-line tool like SAS, SAP
• ETL tools, OLAP, SQL, Data modeling, temporal tables, Visualization / Reporting tools
• Statistics, machine learning

Non-technical

Problem resolution skills, excellent communication skills, on-the-fly reporting abilities, domain knowledge, analytical and logical reasoning skills, willingness to learn new technologies and techniques, a single-minded approach to testing, flexibility and situational awareness, and sound knowledge of the industry or area of application you are working in.

Bottomline: Short of sounding clichéd, the salary package and career graph in the Analytics landscape has never seemed better! So go ahead, kick-start the process. Arm yourself with technical skills, use DIY freely available material on the net or enroll for a short certification. Drive your career towards an all-new trajectory, analytically.

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