Interesting POST by IBM this morning on BusinessWeek, but you really need to read the comments sections.  Ouch…

“Thanks to the Internet, the world has become a swelling ocean full of data. One grand challenge of our age is to find a way to harness that data. And that’s where the burgeoning field of analytics comes in. Companies as large as IBM and as small as Twitter are looking to hiring people who can boil down this ocean of data into knowledge and insights that can help improve the performance of their businesses.”

http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/12/want_a_job_anal.html