Measured from live jobs
Economist skills employers ask for
From 32 open Economist job postings on Rolearch, read and tagged skill by skill. Updated every night as jobs open and close.
The most-asked skills
Share of Economist postings that mention each skill.
- Researchdistinctive88%
- Statisticsdistinctive69%
- Leadership44%
- Pythondistinctive34%
- Accountingdistinctive31%
- Data analysisdistinctive28%
- Stakeholder management25%
- Customer service22%
- Marketing19%
- Forecastingdistinctive16%
- SQLdistinctive16%
- Budgeting16%
“Distinctive” means Economist postings ask for it at least three times as often as jobs overall.
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Where Economist skills carry over
Roles whose postings ask for the most similar skills. Overlap counts the skills that define each role most.
- Statistician82% overlapShared: Statistics, Research, Python, Stakeholder managementHow to switch
- Operations Research Analyst78% overlapShared: Statistics, Research, Data analysis, PythonHow to switch
- Research Assistant72% overlapShared: Research, Statistics, Data analysis, LeadershipHow to switch
- Medical Scientist64% overlapShared: Research, Statistics, Python, LeadershipHow to switch
Questions
- What skills does a Economist need?
- In 32 current Economist job postings, the skills asked for most often are Research (88%), Statistics (69%), Leadership (44%), Python (34%), Accounting (31%). Percentages are the share of postings that mention each skill.
- What jobs can a Economist move into?
- Measured by shared skill demand, the closest roles are Statistician, Operations Research Analyst, Research Assistant, Medical Scientist. Statistician shares skills such as Statistics, Research, Python.
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