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What this article says about designers also applies to business analysts: don’t wait or ask for permission to showcase your potential. Work Samples Don’t wait to get hired to start building a work sample. If you are an aspiring BA, that will help provide evidence to prospect employees how good you are at documenting requirements. [...]
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Earlier this week I addressed the question of how to determine if you are qualified for a business analyst job and noted that the most important thing you can do is understand is your transferable business analyst skills. I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how exactly to determine what your skills are. In this [...]
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Are you exploring a career in business analysis? Do you find yourself wondering if your skills and experience are relevant to a business analyst role? Would you be interested in learning about how qualified you are to be a business analyst? We’re going to talk about how to know if you are qualified to be [...]
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Discover the most critical business analysis skills for new BA – including core skills, business analysis skills, soft skills, and skills that can be required for specific types of BA jobs.
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When it comes to finding a business analyst job, we know that work experience is a big factor in getting the first interview and even being offered a first position as a business analyst. If you are employed in an office setting, what typically works best is to expand your business analyst work experience (even [...]
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This reader shows us how you can showcase relevant experiences into a business analyst resume that lands you interviews and a job offer. She expected her career transition to take years but instead found a business analyst job after submitting just 10 targeted applications. I’ve been working as a technical writer in the software industry [...]
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One of our readers shares how his persistence in pursuing business analyst roles, as well as tweaking his job titles and leveraging a titled position (even though it wasn’t really a BA role) helped land him in his first business analyst job! I spent a very, very long time unemployed or underemployed before I caught [...]
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Many of the writers here at Bridging the Gap have written about using transferable skills to transition into a Business Analysis career. Laura Brandenburg’s theme is assisting people in starting and transitioning to Business Analysis. In her article, 5 Steps to Becoming a Business Analyst, Step Two is to identify transferable skills. In Building Critical Stakeholder [...]
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In every workplace there are a few people who outperform everyone else. Their work is of such high quality and quantity that others admire and value them. A “star BA” is someone who is recognized by their peers and superiors for the extraordinary results they deliver in business analysis work. Because of their highly valued [...]
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