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When I’m out talking about how I help aspiring business analysts, there are two very common assumptions: An aspiring business analyst is currently in college and looking to start their BA career after they graduate. An aspiring business analyst is typically unemployed. The thing is, if we look at the readership of Bridging the Gap, [...]
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As I walked into the most recent Denver IIBA meeting, someone threw me an easy question. “Can you please introduce me to Laura Brandenburg?” “Sure, that’s me!” “Ooh…you look different? Maybe your hair is longer?” Awkward silence. As I was driving home, I reflected back to the last time someone commented that I was easily [...]
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This week we added a business analyst to the 2010 section of our Registry of Business Analysis Career Transitions. I receive a lot of questions from aspiring BAs who have experience in call centers, so I’m excited to share Mina’s success story. Mina Joseph graduated with an MIS degree in 2008 was a contact center representative for [...]
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Once upon a time, this guy named Doug sent me an email about an article he wanted to publish on Bridging the Gap. This is where Doug Goldberg enters my story. But there was an amazing back-story behind this email and Doug was kind enough to share it publicly late last year. Let’s read into what Doug [...]
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First, allow me to explain how business process analysis can be a catalyst for your BA career change. Business process analysis is used by BAs and non-BAs alike to find opportunities to improve business operations, train new employees, clarify business procedures, and that’s just for starters. Sometimes it’s done in a very formal way. But most of [...]
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Our grocer recently introduced pasture-fresh eggs from a local farm and I’ve been eating a lot of eggs lately. Fresher eggs than I’ve ever had on a regular basis in my life. The kind you’d get from the place down the road, if that place down the road ever had eggs when you stopped in! [...]
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You might not think you have much to learn from Dwight Shrute from The Office. Why, with the fact that he’s been given a dizzying array of job titles, never with the accompanying salary or responsibility, brings weapons to work, and time after time is duped by Jim’s pranks, we might think of him as [...]
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I’m very excited to announce that we’ve added a new business analyst to our 2012 Registry of BA Career Transitions. I think Olga’s story will resonate with many – especially how she found transferable skills from a jack-of-all-trades type of role. Olga Onal was in a jack-of-all-trades position with the title of Systems Analyst at a [...]
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If you are an experienced professional, let’s face it, the idea of starting a job that is “entry-level” or with the title of “junior” is not very appealing. Not to mention the salary cut you’d likely have to take. All those years of experience have to be worth something, right? If you are going to [...]
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This 50 BAs Project is turning out to be very rewarding, even more so than I anticipated when I started it earlier this year. Thank you to everyone who has participated in any way – either by sharing your story, passing along a link to Bridging the Gap, or encouraging someone else on their path [...]
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