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From data analyst to data quality specialist

12 of the 20 essential skills of a data quality specialist are already essential for a data analyst — about 60% of the job, before you learn anything new.

These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.

12
skills carry over
8
would be new
60%
of the target job covered
20
essential skills of a data quality specialist

What a data quality specialist does

Data quality specialists review organisation's data for accuracy, recommend enhancements to record systems and data acquisition processes and assess referential and historical integrity of data. They also develop documents and maintain data quality goals and standards and oversee an organisation's data privacy policy and monitor compliance of data flows against data quality standards.

What would be new

8 skills

Essential for a data quality specialist and not for a data analyst. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.

Other moves from data analyst

2 roles

data analystdata quality specialistThe other way round

Counted from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Occupations are compared on their essential skills only.

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How far are you from being a data quality specialist?

MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.