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Just gave a brown bag session on learnings from my career as
an analyst. Or as I put it, learning from my mistakes. While preparing for the
talk I realised that it could be distilled into one word: “Curiosity”. At a
certain point in my career I started noticing that the breadth of my experience
is an asset. Many people will recommend not moving around too much and focusing
on one technology or methodology. That was not the case with me. My natural
curiosity led me to develop technical skills in data retrieval, reporting and
statistical analysis using different platforms and I was open to learn new
analysis methodologies. No strike that - am still open to lean. You will find on
my laptop R with loads of packages I tried out alongside all sort of evaluation
versions of software solutions I am exploring. I am doing it because I am
curious. I read somewhere an acronym - I
want to not only decompose it to words but also understand what lies behind
that. So my advice to budding analysts: Be curious. Pick up as many technical
and analytical skill as you can – do not wait to be sent on a course or to be
allotted time to deep dive. You never know when opportunity calls.
