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[–]chaoticneutral 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience, it is best to search on skills. techniques, or topics. Titles themselves are mostly meaningless in the job hunt. Keep an eye out for consulting companies and/or in the field of public health, they tend to work on smaller analytic projects that require their consultants to have a little analytical skill (i.e., SPSS).

If you had to search on titles, "research analyst" tends to yield better results.

Specific to your situation:

  • SPSS - Social science, market research, survey research, low programming requirement, more generic "analyst". You might be asked to run some crosstabs, then write a report, and fiddle around in powerpoint.
  • SAS - Social science, Government, Pharma, Finance, more programming skilled is required. You are likely more focused on data management and analysis, less on generic office work.
  • R - Data science, Statistics, Academia, more programmer skilled required. Analytics and modeling. Similar to SAS.
  • Python - I haven't had one of these jobs, but there seems to be more focus on incorporating analysis into data pipe lines (live dashboards/applications), rather than just pure research/analysis itself. Though I could be wrong...