Earlier this year an awesome app called ZOMBIES, RUN! was funded through crowd-sourcing on Kickstarter. It’s an ultra-immersive game for the iPhone where you help rebuild civilization after a zombie apocalypse. By going out and running in the real world, you can collect medicine, ammo, batteries, and spare parts that you can use to build up and expand your base – all while getting orders and clues through your headphones. This game is one of many being designed to help prevent weight gain and even inspire weight loss. Currently a number of researchers are helping to determine the effectiveness of these digital games and game technologies that promote health by gathering data and analyzing it to establish facts.
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A researcher is somebody who searches for knowledge and investigates to establish facts. To accomplish this they make detailed observations, analyze data, and interpret results. Because research is needed in a wide range industries for different purposes, researchers can work in academic, industrial, government, and private institutions.
The typical day for a researcher depends upon the type of research you’re involved in, but might involve any number of these tasks:
A Researcher’s average yearly salary is $23,000. You can also specialize in different topics for example you could be a Tax Researcher (average yearly salary is $28,000), Court Researcher (average yearly salary is $22,000), User Researcher (average yearly salary is $80,000), Internet Researcher (average yearly salary is $22,000), Quantitative Researcher (average yearly salary is $111,000) Library Researcher (average yearly salary is $25,967), Market Researcher (average yearly salary is $49,999), or a Research Scientist (average yearly salary is between $39,000 and $114,299).
Here are some hot spots for researchers:
It is generally necessary to have a college degree and typically even a Master’s or PhD to be a Researcher. Possible relevant degrees might include marketing, psychology, anthropology, sociology, biology, chemistry, business, or statistics. A lot of the training that researchers receive is on the job training from more senior staff, but you should also be familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Beyond that helpful characteristics to have include being curious, good critical analysis, verbal and written communication skills, persistence, motivation and ability to cope with delayed gratification and even rejection.
If research still sounds like your cup of tea, here are a few things you should do to get started.
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| AS Photographer 2013-2014 | Bellingham, WA |
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| Coord Production-New Content(Freelance) | New York, NY |
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| Taxonomist | Stamford, CT |
| International Format Producer(Freelance) | New York, NY |
| Digital Media Encoder-freelance | Stamford, CT |
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| Copywriter | Industry, CA |
| Student / Intern | Cambridge, MA |
| Event Coordinator | Industry, CA |
| Video Personality - Part Time | Industry, CA |
| Photographer | Industry, CA |
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| Accounts Payable Assistant | Leesburg, VA |
| Medical Officer (General Practitioner) | Many, LA |
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| Fall 2013 Legal Internship | United States |
| Internship, Summer 2013, Undergraduate or Graduate Student | Brooklyn, NY |
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| Affiliate Marketing Manager | McLean, VA |
| Marketing Associate | New York, NY |
| Account Executive - Software Sales (SaaS) | Lighthouse Point, FL |
| Inside Sales Representative | Phoenix, AZ |
| Regional Director of Business Development- South America | South, KY |
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| Student Internship - Editorial/Research | Somerville, MA |
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| Front End Developer and Designer - US | New York, NY |
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| Product Marketing Sr. Specialist | Boston, MA |
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| Survey Specialist - Health Care Research | Chicago, IL |
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| Graduate Research Assistant - General Social Survey (GSS) | Chicago, IL |
| Graduate Research Assistant – Mobile Technology Innovation | Chicago, IL |
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| Director, Product Marketing | Palo Alto, CA |
| Business Intelligence Developer II | Irving, TX |
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| Development Officer | New York, NY |
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| Social Media Strategist | New York, NY |
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| Financial Analyst, FP&A | San Francisco, CA |
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| Data Reviewer, Finance | New York, NY |
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| Digital Media Specialist | Raleigh, NC |
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| Research and Insights Strategist | New York, NY |
| Digital Media Associate | New York, NY |
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| Account Executives | New York, NY |
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