News Indexing Analyst – German Content recruitment
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The Role
The Bloomberg Content Indexing team is looking for an analyst to work on classification of the world's most important financial and economic news with the aim of expanding Bloomberg's brand as the leader in the financial news market. The successful candidate will use specialized software to create hierarchical rules that automatically organize German-language news and data from websites and feeds. The analyst will also monitor classification programs and design creative solutions for customer needs.
Qualifications
-Native-level fluency in German.
-Fluency in English.
-Bachelor's degree or higher in Library Science, Philosophy, Linguistics, Information Science, Mathematics or Statistics
-Strong knowledge of current affairs and a keen interest in news.
-Solid understanding of how financial and economic news and data drives the financial markets.
-Strong communication and project-management skills.
- Experience in use of categorization, filtering or mining software such as Google Advanced Search, Wolfram Alpha, Factiva, LexisNexis, Inxight, IDOL, Verity, Clear Forest or Microsoft Fast.
The company:
Bloomberg, the global business and financial information and news leader, gives influential decision makers a critical edge by connecting them to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas. The company's strength - delivering data, news and analytics through innovative technology, quickly and accurately - is at the core of the Bloomberg Professional service, which provides real time financial information to more than 300,000 subscribers globally. Bloomberg's enterprise solutions build on the company's core strength, leveraging technology to allow customers to access, integrate, distribute and manage data and information across organizations more efficiently and effectively. Through Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the company provides data, news and analytics to decision makers in industries beyond finance. And Bloomberg News, delivered through television, radio, mobile, the Internet and two magazines, Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets, covers the world with more than 2,300 news and multimedia professionals at 146 bureaus in 72 countries. Headquartered in New York, Bloomberg employs more than 13,000 people in 185 locations around the world.
