Top Recruiters for Analytics
This week’s issue of Businessweek featured an article titled, “The Best Places to Launch a Career”. The foundation of the article is a list of the top 50 companies that hire college graduates. What’s interesting about this article is the column that shows the most desirable trait these companies are looking for in the recruits. Below is a summation of the six different categories:
1. 26% Leadership Skills
2. 26% College Major
3. 20% Analytical Skills
4. 12% Communication Skills
5. 8% College GPA
6. 8% Other
Twenty percent, or 10 of the 50 companies in the survey, had analytical skills as the most desirable skill they are looking for. IBM was ranked number four on the list and was the first company that listed analytical skills as the most important. Another intriguing fact is that only four of the fifty companies thought GPA was the most imperative trait.
In an earlier post, I presented the fact that business analytics is the third most important technology project for a CIO in 2007. Both of these ideas reinforce that fact that if your company isn’t competing on analytics, then you may need to rethink your strategy!
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