Data Analyst-Statistician Careers

Work Environment:

Statistician/data analyst gather and analyze numerical data, and represent results in different forms, such as reports, tables, graphs, diagrams and charts. As a data analyst or statistician, you'd find out trends and produce models to estimate or predict what may occur in future.

Being a statistician, you can work within various fields, comprising:

• education
• insurance, business and finance
• forensics and crime analysis
• national and local government
• NHS
• market study

Within public-sector, you can work within universities, government agencies and research councils. While working for government, you may gather, analyze and publish data on transport, crime, population trends, labor market and economy. The data you generate will be utilized to give advice to ministers and inform people and the press.

Within other sectors/industries, you may be included into:

• checking quality-control standards within sections, like food testing
• opinion-polling
• finding out patterns and trends to assist firms take business-decisions
• forecasting demand of goods/services
• scrutinizing market trends and research into customer feedback

Qualification, Education and Experience:

To become a data analyst or statistician, you'd necessitate a degree into math, statistics or any other numerate-subject, like medical science, psychology, economics or operational research.

You'd necessitate 5 GCSE grades (A to C) and 2 A Levels with mathematics, to get into mathematics based degree-course. For precise admission requirements, confirm with universities/colleges. Visit the website of UCAS, for details regarding degree courses.

Few 4-year degree courses comprise one year within workplace. The work-experience you get throughout this period can provide you with a benefit while searching for job. For information about work-experience and placement chances, check the website of Civil Service.

Then again, you can acquire a qualification like, RSS (Royal Statistical-Society) Diploma into Statistics.

Few companies might want you to hold a qualification at postgraduate level, like PhD or Masters Degree.

The GSS (Government Statistical-Service) manages a recruitment program for higher caliber graduates having a first/second class honors degree into a numerate-subject. For further information, check the website of GSS.

Training Details:

You'd get training at the work by experienced employees and gradually undertake additional responsibilities and your projects.

You might be supported to take RSS-qualifications, with 3 Levels: Graduate-Diploma, General Certificate and Advanced Certificate.

The Royal Statistical-Society (RSS) gives status of CStat (Chartered-Statistician) to persons having an honors degree into statistics, with as a minimum 4 year's work experience.

Skills and knowledge:

• outstanding oral and written communication abilities
• capability to analyze and interpret information
• capability to work within a team
• excellent problem resolving abilities
• accurateness and concentration to details
• a logical and systematic manner
• excellent mathematical skills
• capability to plan out workload and meet targets
• excellent IT-skills

Along with this career guidance, refer these resume for mathematics major and sample of mathematical technician resume samples.

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