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O*NET detailed work activityAnalyze market conditions or trends
AI-readyCrunch the numbers
12 jobs15 tasks
Paste a spreadsheet or table and ask AI to find trends, outliers and totals, or to write the formula you need. It's like having an analyst on call.
Part of Analyze market or industry conditions, under the O*NET work activity group Analyzing Data or Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (12 AI-ready, 2 AI-assist, 1 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Compare liquidity, profitability, and credit histories of establishments being evaluated with those of similar establishments in the same industries and geographic locations.
- Collect and analyze relevant data to identify real estate market trends.
- Track and analyze factors that affect price movement, such as trade policies, weather conditions, political developments, or supply and demand changes.
- Analyze trends in sales prices, construction costs, and rents, to assess property values or determine the accuracy of assessments.
- Monitor financial market trends to ensure that client plans are responsive.
- Analyze potential loan markets and develop referral networks to locate prospects for loans.
- Forecast and track marketing and sales trends, analyzing collected data.
- Analyze details of sales territories to assess their growth potential and to set quotas.
- Monitor competitors' sales activities by following their advertisements in newspapers or other media.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Monitor and analyze sales records, trends, or economic conditions to anticipate consumer buying patterns, company sales, and needed inventory.
- Monitor changes affecting supply and demand, tracking market conditions, price trends, or futures markets.
- Gather data on competitors and analyze their prices, sales, and method of marketing and distribution.
- Evaluate capital needs of clients and assess market conditions to inform structuring of financial packages.
- Monitor or analyze market and environmental trends.
- Compile and study occupational, educational, and economic information to assist counselees in determining and carrying out vocational and educational objectives.