Since I recently accepted a position, the situation has become clearer – there is a big increase in demand for analytic talent, and it now takes much longer to find and hire people for marketing analytics jobs.

What this means for you is that this would be a great time to shift fields or businesses if that is what you want to do – hirers are having to be more flexible, and are casting a wider net. So, for example, if you have always wanted to work in online analytics, but have stayed in direct mail out risk-aversion, you might consider making such a change now.

Bill

My own anecdotal evidence is similar so your logic resonated with me. It seems as I am earlier in my career, I started seeing an uptick in recruiting calls in June 2010. The N’s are too small to be significant or meaningful.

I track job postings and have a general sense of job counts for analytic related searches. There definitely seems to have been an uptick from new 20-40 job postings per day (usually the lower end) to 50-70 per day in the May timeframe in the Boston area.

Now I am trying to figure out hpw to position myself to get where I want to go!

Thanks again,
Shefali