Where Good Analysts Come From: Why and How We Built Our Own School
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20 min
Where to find a good analyst? At Labmedia, we tried everything: hiring from the market, upskilling newcomers on the job, and even launching university courses. Yet, each of these approaches proved either too costly or too inefficient. Eventually, we built our own School of Analysts — and gained not only a steady flow of skilled professionals, but also a sustainable in-house talent development model.
This talk is an honest investigation into three hypotheses:
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Why hiring + on-the-job adaptation don’t scale.
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How collaboration with universities has been going — and why it hasn’t yet taken off.
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What benefits an internal training school actually brings.
The talk will be valuable for anyone facing a talent shortage in analytics and looking to shift from the endless search for “perfect candidates” to systematic, in-house professional development.