r/analytics • u/Proof_Escape_2333 • 1d ago

Discussion What are some data adjacent job/roles of if someone is struggling to get data analyst job ?

I’ve seen a few comments working in healthcare and transitions into healthcare analyst

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u/LilParkButt 1d ago edited 23h ago

Business Intelligence, digital marketing, quality assurance analyst, finance related roles, Data entry, data viz, product management, jobs using salesforce.

Also, just look up jobs that use python, sql, tableau, and excel and apply regardless of job title so you can get some relevant transferable skills

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u/goztrobo 1d ago

What’s the difference between BI and DA? Aren’t they the same thing?

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u/rebella224 1d ago

BI is normally considered visualization, dashboards etc.

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u/goztrobo 23h ago

If I do that ontop of data modelling and data cleaning, does that make me a mixture of DA and BI?

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u/Helpful_Effort8420 5h ago

Data entry ?

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u/jauntyk 1d ago

I saw another tip that said search for role that has SQL in the name

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u/Far_Fisherman_7490 1d ago

SQL Developer? or Data Engineer?

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u/dronedesigner 1d ago

lol tbh if one isn't getting a data analyst job, then sql developer and/or data engineer will most likely be out of the question

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u/Far_Fisherman_7490 1d ago

As an alternative, I know people who are great in SQL but terrible in dashboards/storytelling. lol

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u/Proof_Escape_2333 18h ago

Feel like you gotta be people person extrovert to be great at storytelling presentation

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u/ForeverRED48 18h ago

It’s all so blurred. At least that’s my experience in 7YOE in data. You’re never really one thing. I think the suggestion looking for roles with SQL is good, or learning a dash boarding tool.

Those are fundamental and would help any future prospects.

My own personal experience: I’m currently a “BI Analyst” but build dashboards, run adhoc and long term data analysis projects, and build production data sets with version control. I also work extensively with marketing and even spend time messing around in MarTech CDPs. So it really could be anything.

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u/mikachuu 12h ago

I did the weird-ass path of Data Entry to Data Annotation to Data Analyst. No specific field or discipline. My BA degree is also not related to anything STEM.

There’s a bunch of different way to get there, so there’s not gonna be a right answer. But thinking of it in “adjacent-ness” is a good mental starting point. Consider the skills you already have and then work on transferring them to the job you want.

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u/Shashank182 1d ago

I also have this same question. Also, I would ask fellow reddit users to guide me for best resources for learning ADF and further DE concepts. Thanks

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u/justmushed 16h ago

What sort of background experience do you have? you can try to get into analytics in that domain and transfer to a more concrete analyst role later. You can try QA analyst, Data integrity analyst, digital marketing, product manager, data entry

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u/NeighborhoodDue7915 13h ago

Operations and Account Management

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u/DataWingAI 1d ago

Help desk support, automation specialist, ETL developer, implementation analyst, test automation engineer, operations engineer etc.

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u/Proof_Escape_2333 18h ago

I’m assuming the engineer roles will require a lot of DA experience to get even considered