Advance Your Business Analysis Career
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Just a quick update on our goal for 50 BAs in 2012. While we’re still waiting for our very first entrant for the 2012 Registry, we’ve added 2 BAs to the 2011 Registry, helped many rethink their transition plans in last week’s webinar, and are taking registrations for our next Launch Your Business Analysis Career course. Who [...]
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A reader asks: What is the best way to/how to tackle behavioral interview questions? Laura’s answer: Honestly. I thought about ending the post with this one-word answer. But then I just couldn’t do it. So let’s take a step back and address the underlying components of this question. What is a behavioral interview question? Behavioral [...]
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Looking to find your first business analyst job in 2012? Not sure how to overcome your experience gap or what training or certifications will help you break into our profession? If so, this complimentary webinar is for you! Join us for a Complimentary Webinar After attending this complimentary webinar you will be able to: Decide [...]
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A reader asks: What is the difference between business analysis and business development? Michelle’s answer: Business development is just that; the growth of new or existing business. It is usually associated with the sales team within an organization. Sales and marketing are responsible for growing existing business – so finding areas of customers that have [...]
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Just a quick update on our goal for 50 BAs in 2012. This past week, we’ve added 2 BAs to the Registry, one to 2010 and one to 2011. New BAs! Evan Wise had a varied career as an implementation manager, systems analyst and developer before applying for his first contract BA position. He leveraged our [...]
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Real goals have numbers. I’ve been talking about helping BAs advance their careers for a long time. Now I’m ready to do something measurable to make a contribution to our profession. As you may have read in Monday’s post about my BHAG (that’s Big Hairy Audacious Goal – thanks JL for the correction!), I’m set on helping [...]
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The start of a new year provides a psychological “fresh start” and an opportunity to reflect on past successes and future challenges. In particular, I always find January a great time to take stock of the areas where I’d like to develop my career over the coming year. However, when it comes to personal development [...]
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Happy New Year! Let me be among the first to say Happy New Year! I hope you and your loved ones had safe and happy celebrations. We had a quiet new years with our 2 month little girl and some close friends. To be honest, it was tempting to call it a night 2 hours [...]
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Reader Question: “I am getting ready to send in my CBAP application, and I am wondering if it’s ok to submit the same person both as project contact and reference. The person I would like to use as reference was a project manager in two of my projects and is the only person I kept [...]
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Reader’s Question: I have been working in the medical and spa industry for over 10 years. It seems every position I have involves some BA type duties from rewriting policy and procedure manuals to doing efficiency studies. I need to find a mentor to assist me in turning all this random experience into a BA [...]
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