Wes Yee and June Dershewitz are in charge of Semphonic's Facebook page - and to liven it up a bit they put together a little interactive quiz to discover "What sort of Web Analyst" you are.
I'm pretty sure I heard them working on this - assuming the occasional gusts of laughter from June's office weren't related to some deeply humorous analysis problem.
Wes had me take the quiz late last week and, surprise, surprise, I'm a....
"Barry Angel: Analytics Philosopher"
Well, at the least the darn thing has me pegged right. Barry the avatar is appropriately dorky - and I'm sure will fit a goodly number of my brethren as well. See if you, too, can achieve "Analytics Philosopher" status by going to our Facebook page and taking the Quiz...
On a more serious note, Matthew Niederberger put together a survey about career transitions for online folks - how often and why to do people change jobs. It's the perfect accompaniment to Labor Day. It's also a fascinating subject and you can help out his research project by taking the survey.The survey only takes 5-10 minutes (though it covers quite a bit of ground) - and you can sign up to get the results. Should be interesting.
I thought the section on "job-hopping" was particularly intriguing - I started off by saying that "job-hopping" was sometimes valid and sometimes not. But then in the list of reasons why job-hopping might be valid I pretty much answered that every reason for job-hopping was a good one. I guess if someone was job-hopping to a lower-salaried, less challenging job with a less prestigious company I might have an issue with it!
That's interesting, I got the exact same result. I also struggled with that part of the job hopping survey. I guess great minds think alike :P
Regarding that survey, maybe it's because all the reasons for moving that were given were pretty valid anyway.
But what if the person is going to a job at a rival firm? Would the leaver's answer matter in that case?
Posted by: Webstrategy360 | September 07, 2010 at 12:58 PM
That's a pretty good point about joining a rival firm. At most levels, I don't take it too seriously if someone moves from, say, HP to IBM - but when you work for a small company/niche business or, of course, if you are stealing clients - that's it's own brand of trouble.
I guess the more I thought about it, job-hopping just doesn't seem unreasonable these days and from the outside it may be pretty much impossible to tell if somebody left because they are fiddle-footed, were pretty much shown the door, or left for something clearer better.
Posted by: Gary Angel | September 07, 2010 at 02:08 PM