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Economist/Policy Analyst Competition

  • 29-01-2018 3:01pm
    #1
    lucat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭


    I may be a little late to the game on this as the closing date is on Thursday, but I am wondering about the type of people who would apply to this competition: https://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/campaignAdvert/69036.htm

    I used SPSS as part of my Sociology degree but that was 15 years ago so I would be very rusty and no doubt the software has evolved hugely since then. In my career I have used statistics a lot for communications purposes (think sourcing them for government factsheets, position papers, creating charts in Excel for fact-sheets etc.)

    Essentially I'm asking would I have the type of experience and qualifications they want? Or do they only want experienced Economists?


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  • #2
    SJ.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭SJ.


    Your career work sounds like the sort of thing that IGEES APs do, so that's good.

    Do you have a strong quantitative analysis component in your qualification? You're suggesting it's sociology - that's not Economics or "Statistics/Data
    Analysis/or Policy Analysis", so you decide if it's quantitative enough...

    I'm aware of a person who was refused a post after getting on a panel because Publicjobs reviewed their qualification, sought a breakdown of course credits etc, and decided that it wasn't sufficiently quantitative and they didn't meet the requirement.


  • #3
    lucat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 430 ✭✭lucat


    SJ. wrote: »
    Your career work sounds like the sort of thing that IGEES APs do, so that's good.

    Do you have a strong quantitative analysis component in your qualification? You're suggesting it's sociology - that's not Economics or "Statistics/Data
    Analysis/or Policy Analysis", so you decide if it's quantitative enough...

    I'm aware of a person who was refused a post after getting on a panel because Publicjobs reviewed their qualification, sought a breakdown of course credits etc, and decided that it wasn't sufficiently quantitative and they didn't meet the requirement.

    Good to know! All that effort for nothing...!

    SPSS is a data analysis program that’s specifically for quantitative analysis, but that was just one element of a degree from 15 years ago. I did a project using it, but if I remember correctly I did poorly as we weren’t really taught how to use it properly. We were expected to learn on the fly a bit.


  • #4
    SJ.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭SJ.


    I would never tell you not to apply, but in my opinion it sounds like you would not be considered eligible if that's the extent of the experience. I would think that (aside from economics) maths, stats, some business and some science degrees would be eligible. You'd want to have been using SPSS, R, SQL or similar fairly routinely in your course.

    Ironically I would be eligible because I have an economics qualification, but it was not all that much more quantitative than your sociology!


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