Gap Analysis:
Gap Analysis:
You need to find four jobs you would be interested in, and do a comparison of job requirements - identifying gaps in skills, education, and experience when compared to your current profile. Refer below for detailed instructions.
The purpose of this assignment is to help you start along the path of enhancing your current career, engaging in a new one, or understanding what you as a manager who hires analytic talent must know about the skill sets. The object is to find four jobs you would be interested in from the perspective of any of the above, and do a comparison of the job requirements, identifying those gaps in skills, education, and experience.
1) Find four jobs posted online that are related to the analytics areas of your interest. Use any combination of the following words as a starting point for a search, e.g. Data Engineer or Analytics Specialist. It may take a few tries to get the right combination:
Analyst Coordinator Engineer Researcher
Analytics Data Junior Scientist
Business Digital Manager Senior
Consultant Director Research Specialist
2) LinkedIn, CareerBuilder, GGU Careers, Monster.com, Dice, or the website of any company are good sources for finding these kinds of jobs. You may even find a job at your own company.
3) Review the responsibilities of each job. What will the person do in this job? Assess the skills and experience requested by the employer. Evaluate your own qualifications/ understanding and compare these to the stated needs: 1) Do you have the skills? 2) Do you have the years of experience? 3) What about education? 4) What gaps remain and how can you fill the gaps? If you are a hiring manager, do you understand what is needed?
4) Create an Excel spreadsheet using the Skills GAP Analysis Template given below:
List Experience, Education, Skills (each unique skill) down the side
Enter company name and job title across the top line, replacing Job #1, Job #2, Job #3, Job # 4.
Template is in below link
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u4FUffjGwgl-1lIlbiS9TilxaPlWrP13/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115872672284893498763&rtpof=true&sd=true
5) For each job:
Enter Education and Years of Experience required
In the intersecting squares of Skills and Jobs, assess each skill against your experience/understanding by entering E, M, or A (Entry level, Mid-level, Advanced) If that skill is not in a particular job description, leave the square blank.
In the last column labeled Comments, explain very briefly how you might raise your experience level.
PART B
Seminar/Networking Event Assignment:
You need to attend a seminar/webinar/networking event* of your choice related to Analytics. This could be from a conference, association (e.g., DAA), or a company. Using the template
included below, document the session including,
Event name, sponsor, date/time of the event, presenter(s)
URL for the event (could be the registration page)
A summary of what you learned from the presenter(s),
Personal reflection that puts this topic in the context of what you are learning in this class,
Your key takeaway from the event.
*As an example, you could watch and write about some aspect of Covid-19 analytics:
How are initial vaccine recipients selected?
How are illness/deaths being tracked?
How does contact tracing work?
The submission template for this assignment is as below.
Event Name:________________________________
Sponsoring Organization: _____________________
Date/Time of the Event: ______________
URL: ____________________
Name of Presenter(s): ________________________
Summary of what you learned from presenter(s):
Personal Reflection that puts this topic in perspective of what you are learning in this class:
What is your key takeaway?
