Hi,
I also want to become a research analyst and with this in my mind, to get a job as research analyst around a year back I started my own blog about economics. I write infrequently at my blog. I started a blog to get a job as research analyst, but as it has been 1 year and still not got job, I thought that this may not be the effective idea(of writing blog) to get a job.
From your article, I have realized that I am on right track and somewhere somebody has got success with the same idea. Thanks for giving your example and reconfirming my belief in writing blogs.