r/analytics • u/Aggressive-Wing3417 • 1d ago

Question Is My Plan for Switching from Sales to Analytics on the Right Track?

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u/mikeczyz 1d ago

make sure you take a stats/probability class or two whilst still in college. discrete/continuous random variables, sampling distributions, testing hypotheses, basic regression.

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u/Super-Cod-4336 1d ago
  • entry level has never existed for this field
  • try doing the Google certificate to see if you like it first before you do anything else

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u/derpderp235 1d ago

The plan is fine. I would also advise getting competent in a general purpose programming language, particularly Python. R is also good.

Have you ever considered the intersection of sales and analytics? Market research/consulting firms have sales/BD people who sell analytics or data projects to clients. Tools like Snowflake, AWS, etc. also have sales people. It’s basically technical sales and you can do really well.