Examination of Job Descriptions
and Required Skills of Systems Analysts Positions
Systems Analysis and Design by Kendall & Kendall presents a description of the roles that systems analysts play in organizations. They also present a list of skills which are required of systems analysts.
In the pages that follow I present the textbook's description of the roles and qualities of systems analysts and compare this description to those found in newspaper and Internet postings for real-life systems analyst positions. I will offer a statistical summary of the desired skill sets and required experience or knowledge. As a conclusion I will offer my own advertisement for a fictious sytems analyst position, requesting the skills which were most often cited in the real-life postings.