What's a good job for people who like to analyze market trends, where big picture independent thinking is need
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Market analyst comes to mind.  Every company has an entire marketing / business development division dedicated to this stuff.  They're the ones who figure out where best to put money to grow the business.\n\nNot sure what the education path is for the job -- probably an MBA helps, and a business background.  And you have to get some job experience somewhere.
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Take portfolio management or investment analysis
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You can get a lot of good information from Yahoo and MSN, and Big Charts will supplement that.  All of that is free. If you need more, consider an investment newsletter or research service such as Value Line, MPT Review, Investor's Value View, or BI Research.  Morningstar has some good information too.  Best of luck to you.
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Everything seems to be used for analysis, to find the mean curve average...TV....Internet.....I beleive you may be right.\n\nBut hey...Cheer up...Humans just aren't that average. Every time they think that they have found the perfect way to market, advertise and co-erce you into buying a chocolate bar, some other spotty face nerd in the future revolutionises the process.\n\nAll of this analysis is just a sea of change and in a hundred years...BAH!...Who's gonna' care.
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The online statistician has done some remarkable analysis for many companies. A few of the case studies are explored in detail, including the confidence intervals and applications, online. \n\nhttp://www.onlinestatistician.com/online-marketing-consultant.php\n\nUsing a statistician who understands business data to out perform your competition, better reach the customer, and recreate your business is a winners strategy.
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Well, I think technical analysis is only one of the many tools we can use to predict market movements. There are many factors to look at when investing. There will always be people on either side of the fence when it comes to forecasting and this is probably when the technicalities come in but then again, if you are looking at short-term profits, it is more important to look at the market sentiments.
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The job market is great. You see many ads for them. However, there is a high turn over due to the nature of the business. You can make a lot of money if you are motivated.
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It all depends on what services you are willing to offer.  You can easily start up with analysis jobs by presenting yourself to non-profit groups that deal with geography or land-oriented categories, such as watershed groups or conservation groups.  Stay close to them because if you do good jobs for them, they will tell others about you and you're business will grow.\nFrom there, you will be able to buy additional equipment like plotters, digitizers and other big ticket items that will help you in doing bigger jobs with better quality.\n\nGIS is all about helping people make decisions and just as long as you can do this, you will prosper.
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Think of what occupation you are looking for then that will narrow your search  http://www.reinvestorsolutions.com/steiner
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Vector Vest does do very good analysis. However I've found that although they are usually correct when it comes to what they say about a company; in the real day to day trading world it doesn't necessarily equate to a profit.
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. Measure market performance \n. Analyze market dynamics \n. Diagnose and solve marketing and sales problems, and \n. Identify and capture growth opportunities \n\nSales to consumers of fast-moving consumer packaged goods, gathered at the point of sale in retail stores of all types and sizes. These retail measurement services provide clients with essential facts on how their products are performing compared with their competitors, and on trends and changes in market conditions and sales results. They also provide critical information on the use of promotional activities at the retail level, such as special displays or pricing, and on distribution and stock conditions in retail stores. \nPurchases by consumers of packaged goods and other products, gathered through participating panels of consumer households and through customized studies. These consumer panel and customized research services provide a foundation for understanding and analyzing consumers’ motivations, attitudes, behavior, shopping patterns and demographic characteristics.\n\n*this what they usually do\n************************************************\nWhat We Do\n•Provide professional consultants, marketing decision-makers and not-for-profit groups with accurate and insightful research that enables them to make better decisions \n•Work with organizations to help them develop their competitive advantage \n•Integrate primary research into the planning of goals, the implementation of strategies to meet those goals, and the evaluation of how well the strategies and staff are working together \n•Deliver management solutions derived from the consultation process \n•Ensure an integrated and seamless process from planning to implementation \nTools Of The Trade\n•Telephone, mail, online and in-store customer surveys \n•Face-to-face exit and intercept surveys \n•Focus groups \n•Executive interviews \n•Mystery and shadow shops \n•Competitive mystery shopping \n•Site audits \n•Telephone evaluations
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you could do a financial profiling putting up the key data, financial ratios compared to its competition. Check yahoo finance for example. A profil is a short overview of the company focusing on its market product history or finacial performance.
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Anything with programming should help. Research job sites like monster, dice, hotjobs, vault, allamericanjobs to see what seems to be in demand at the time you are looking to come.
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Information technology is a new addition. I find it best. Between marketing and finance you get payed higher in finance but there are far more jobs in marketing.
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hotjobs,monster.com are good sights. just put in the info. and they will bring up jobs
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try one of the big companies
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I'd start with international companies like Toyota, Caterpillar, Honda, GM, Ford, etc.  I work for one of these and we put a lot of emphasis on the International Business folks.\n\nBasically any company that needs folks that understand import / export and monetary exchanges.  It also doesn't hurt to have language skills.\n\nGood luck!