The economy is slowing and people are losing jobs. What will be the effect on BI professionals? It is obvious that BI professionals will also be affected by the bad economy,

One should note that finding and hiring high-performance business intelligence (BI) professionals for an IT company is still not an easy task. Companies don't lay off their best BI employees - in fact, they will do all they can to keep them inthe organization.

In a soft job market, it can even be more difficult to hire those high-performance BI professionals, because the candidate pool is diluted with lower performers. Expect to pay more for talented BI professionals than for other IT professionals with similar experience levels. Also, expect to pay at least an 8% compensation increase to a BI candidate who is currently employed.

Which BI professionals get affected badly?

Many companies have BI professionals who are in huge number and the kind of role they play is very narrow in the overall process. For example, a plenty of ETL experts does not even know complete life cycle of the data they handle. What it means is that the employee does not really has an edge over his coleagues. And similarly, large pool of BI professionals cant think beyond certain BI tools which they claim to be expert. An "Ab Initio" expert for example may not be aware of many other ETL tools in the market.

How to keep your job firm?

For a BI professionals it is very important that they should adopt to new requirements very quickly. As BI is one of the rapidly evolving filed in terms of trends and technologies, it is essential to know about the new tools coming into the market. Therefore the only way to make sure that you job ramains safe is update your skills and be more proactive in at your workplace.