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How To Hire A Web Analyst (Or How To Make One Crazy)

Posted by admin on June 8th, 2008 filed in Omniture, Webanalytics general

There are many great web analytics jobs out there and for companies and recruiters it became more and more difficult to find quality web analysts. Avinash Kaushik posted a while back about the “Top Ten Signs You Are a Great Analyst“. The post made it’s round and people all over the world left great comments like this one or this one or here.

My approach of figuring out if you or someone is a good web analyst is very different,: I have described below my way of figuring out if someone is a good web analyst or not:

1. Set up the web analyst with an Omniture, Google Analytics….account and let the web analyst get familiar with it.

2. Let the web analyst know, that you need to know “ALL” the browsers and Operation System that hit the website within a given time frame.

3. Now surf to the tracked website with the device below during the time frame:

4. Use this built-in browser:

5. If your analyst is able to figure out that you used a Samsung RH2777AT with built-in Samsung browser….than she/he is the right person to have in the office. If not..don’t even think about it

If you look for a senior web analyst use the Samsung refrigerator internet table to make the test a little harder.

For a VP of Analytics position I’d recommend to add a few hits with this browser.

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How To Hire A Web Analyst (Or How To Make One Crazy) (Jun 08, 2008)

3 Responses to “How To Hire A Web Analyst (Or How To Make One Crazy)”

Kyle James Says:
June 13th, 2008 at 5:16 am
Love it! Hilarious.
Mike from Personal Composer Says:
October 9th, 2008 at 11:40 am
I wonder how many good analysts are really out there. You will find that many people are great BS artists, but when it comes time to prove themselves, they will fail the test with a passion. Analytics really isn’t hard to learn, you just have to know which information to look for, and figure out why it is important to your business. It is very easy to get lost in the amounts of data that analytics can provide, but isolating the important information is crucial if you want the data to mean anything.
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June 5th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
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