SAS Contractor Resources

hollandnumerics by hollandnumerics
Last updated: 02/14/2012

What is a SAS Contractor?

Freelance SAS software programmers are vital to keep a number of industry sectors running:

  • Pharmaceutical development,
  • Finance, including banking,
  • Insurance,
  • Marketing,
  • Web analysis

This lens highlights the resources used by SAS contractors, and is the home page for the SAS Contractors group on LinkedIn .

Poll: Marketing SAS skills

What do you use to market your SAS skills?

Vote for all the methods you use, and add to the list any other methods think ought to be listed too.

Twitter

2 points

Squidoo

2 points

LinkedIn (SAS Contractors, SAS Network, etc.)

2 points

Ning (SAS Professionals)

2 points

SAS Discussion Forums

1 point

sasCommunity.org

1 point

Presenting at conferences

1 point

Writing SAS-related books

1 point

Your own web site(s)

1 point

Recruitment agencies

1 point

Facebook

0 points

Blogs

0 points

Organising SAS-related meetings

0 points

Poll: SAS licensing

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Are you a Maverick SAS Programmer or a Conformist SAS Programmer?

Conformists are happy to just do the work in front of them, and Mavericks are continually trying to improve on what they've done before. Challenging Conformists may be counter-productive, but not challenging Mavericks for new ideas will result in you losing them.

Are you a Maverick SAS Programmer or a Conformist SAS Programmer?

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Conformist

Maverick

Saman says:

I don't think many of experienced SAS programmers are conformist. every time you look at your own code you can find a way of improving it as you find patterns of the data flow.

hollandnumerics says:

I'm definitely a Maverick SAS Programmer. I originally got into SAS by trying out the software after I'd just been told to install it. I still like trying as many of the new features that appear as soon as I can, and I'll admit to getting very bored when doing similar tasks over and over again.

 

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