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Business Intelligence Analysts

Also called: Business Intelligence Analyst, Competitive Intelligence Analyst, Market Intelligence
Consultant, Strategic Business and Technology Intelligence Consultant

What they do:

Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports.
Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.

On the job, you would:

Generate standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial, or economic data for review
by executives, managers, clients, and other stakeholders.
Synthesize current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.
Maintain library of model documents, templates, or other reusable knowledge assets.

KNOWLEDGE
Arts and Humanities
English language

Math and Science

arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics

Business
management

Engineering and Technology

computers and electronics

SKILLS
Basic Skills
reading work related information
thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem

Problem Solving
noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

ABILITIES
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Verbal
communicate by writing
read and understand what is written

Ideas and Logic

make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
use rules to solve problems

Math
choose the right type of math to solve a problem
add, subtract, multiply, or divide

PERSONALITY
People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.

They do well at jobs that need:

Analytical Thinking
Attention to Detail
Dependability
Initiative
Integrity
Persistence

TECHNOLOGY
You might use software like this on the job:

Development environment software

Apache Kafka
Go

Data base user interface and query software

Airtable
IBM DB2

Web platform development software

Django
Microsoft ASP.NET

EDUCATION

bachelor's degree or
master's degree
usually needed

JOB OUTLOOK
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New job opportunities are very likely in the future.

Bright

SALARY: $103,500

$58,510 $174,790

EXPLORE MORE
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Marketing Managers
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You might like a career in one of these industries:

Professional, Science, & Technical
Finance & Insurance
Media & Communication

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