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Hi all,

Just taking a casual look round the job sites to see whats about and too get a feel for my next logical step (im in no rush through), I notice that alot of jobs have analyst in the title now, like technical support analyst, looking at the job specs it seems that analyst may well be the new buzz word to have in job titles.

But it does concern me a little because i always think of an analyst in sort of a bean counter way or maybe not directly involved in tech support. Is there any Blah Blah analysts here and how different would you say your job is (if at all) to a lowly pc and network support engineer like myself, ( or should that be pc and network support analyst).

 

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I would say that 'buzzword' is about right.

You could argue that an 'analyst' looks at a problem and analyzes how to fix it, or build it.

I used to be a "Systems Developer". My job title then changed to "Voice Systems Analyst". And now to "Solution Specialist". The job hasn't changed one bit during that time!

Harry.

 

These are my last 4 job titles and the jobs I actually do/did.

Data Analyst - VBA Developer
Data Analyst - Data Mining Developer
Data Analyst - Excel Developer

And my favourite

Data Analyst - Cisco Network Support Engineer.

The last one was for Ntl and they called us Analyst because there was a pay premium for Engineers.

DP

 

Same for me. In a previous job I was a "Service desk Analyst" . I did ask them which part of the service desk they wanted me to analyze, they never did tell me.

 

When in IT in the NHS my title was an IT Techincal Support Analyst.
In 'real' terms if it was not working i repaired it so it did!!

 

didnt they? I told them to tell you to analyze my ass! obviously they forgot to tell you.

I concur, its another buzzword in most cases, has no real meaning that makes it differ at all.

 

OK thanks very much for that everyone, just wanted to make sure a good looking job doesnt actually end up with me drifting off course a bit.

 

At my current job my title is desktop support technician. Althought I do many system admin tasks. I am kind of a hybrid in between desktop support and system admin. I personally don't really care anymore. When someone just asks me what I do I just say I am a tech.

 

Heh!

 

"Technical Support Engineer"

 

The one I see at my company is Telecom Analyst. Everybody is a Telecom Analyst. I think using the "analyst" title is a way of not worrying about all the other titles. There are no Engineers, Architects, Sys Admin, Net Admin, etc... Everyone is an some type of 'analyst' and HR doesn't have to worry about bruised egos.

 

I've been a data analyst for four years now and in the company that I work for we've got financial analysts, functional analysts, business analysts... All you need to do to view all the different kinds of analyst job titles is to look here http://www.technojobs.co.uk/jobs/analyst at where I applied for my job