Navigating Business Analyst Job Decisions

Feeling stuck in your business analyst job? Wondering how to handle a sticky job situation?

Navigating Business Analyst Job Decisions: How to Make the Right Career Moves

We’ll help you take action to make the most of your current job situation, make better job decisions, and more fully leverage opportunities to advance your business analyst career.

by Laura Brandenburg

with Adriana Beal

Price: $35. $15 until 2/29/12!.

Available. Immediate download in PDF format with purchase through PayPal.

Navigating Business Analyst Job Decisions is book 3 of The Promotable Business Analyst series. Discover the steps you can take to improve your current job situation , align your professional goals with your employer’s performance plan, gain support for your professional development, and do what it takes to earn that promotion. Receive support in tracking your career experiences and preparing for difficult conversations with your manager and stakeholders.

Each employment situation has its pros and cons, but often we can’t see the forest for the trees. This workbook will help you see the forest of what makes success in your current situation so you can fully leverage your current role as part of advancing your business analyst career. Be better prepared for your performance review by identifying what’s important to your manager and framing your project experiences appropriately. Earn the right for a professional development opportunity by reframing it in terms your employer will also benefit from. Each small step to make your employer more successful will make you more successful as well.

Not all job situations are the right ones for us. We’ll help you decide when it might be time to leave and, before you do so, complete appropriate analysis to ensure your next job move is the right one for your career.

Navigating Business Analyst Job Decisions includes the following elements:

Guidebook Chapters

1. How to Assess Your Current Position
2. How to Build a Professional Development Strategy
3. How to Leverage Performance Plans and Reviews
4. How to Earn Promotions and Salary Increases
5. Deciding to Leave: When to Stay and When to Quit

Worksheets and Templates

• Worksheet: Deciding Whether or Not to Leave Your Current Organization
• Worksheet: Diagnosing a Project Experience
• Worksheet: Improving Your Job Situation
• Worksheet: Justify a Professional Development Opportunity
• Worksheet: Presenting Evidence Against a Career Objective
• Worksheet: Pros and Cons of Your Current Position
• Worksheet: Job Comparison Template
• Template: Professional Project List
• Template: Professional Development Activities

Testimonials for Navigating Business Analyst Job Decisions

“I don’t believe there is a comparable resource available and, equally, I don’t know any BA who doesn’t worry where their career is taking them (i.e. they are driving the car but don’t know where they are headed!). We often find that the job is poorly understood at best, especially regarding the value the BA brings to the organization. Laura tackles these amongst many other problems in her own style – she is focused on you the reader and is committed to understanding and resolving your problems. This eBook (and the entire series) is a great co-pilot which will really accelerate your efforts through a combination of tools, insight, inspiration and encouragement that clearly has your best interests at heart.” Read the full review

-Alex Papworth, Senior BA Consultant, President, IIBA UK Chapter, Blogger at
BAMentor

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Navigating Business Analyst Job Decisions

by Laura Brandenburg

with Adriana Beal

Price: $35. $15 until 2/29/12!. Available.

Immediate download in PDF format with purchase through PayPal.

I don’t make promises I can’t keep. And I promise that this eBook will help you take at least one step to be more successful in your business analyst job. But your end of the deal is that if you buy the workbook you must actually use it. You might not need to spend any extra time working to advance your career, but you do need to spend 30-60 minutes per week reading the book and deciding how to apply the principles to your employment situation. If you do that and it doesn’t work, 100% money back guarantee within 30 days of purchase.