Being a Biz Analyst

The BABOK talk: Roles, titles, and positions

What is a role? How do the tasks in the BABOK relate to your position as a Business Analyst?

These are the questions we will be discussing in this episode. We will also give a way to assess, regardless of your title, just how much analysis are you actually doing, and does it truly help move your career forward.

Biz Analyst Moments: Retrospective

We dive into the highlights of what happened this month! Lots of exciting learning and successes for the business!

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This month we dove into the value of learning from others; meaning being vulnerable enough to put ourselves out there, and say I need help on steps to take to be successful.

Listen to my journey, and consider what you did you learn, and how you too can work with others to move your career forward!

Listen in to find out more! Got ideas for the podcast? Or want to know more about the course Potential to 1st Steps? Please email me at [email protected]

Biz Analyst Moments: Dos and don'ts of the soft skills resume section.

The value of soft skills may already be multiple times greater than hard skills. Although, some, I am not naming names, are still listing them as a single word without any description.

Let's take a look at the do's and don'ts of the soft skills section.

Lead with soft skills not hard skills: making your soft skills section pop off your resume or standout in the interview

We have all been there, we listed a bunch of soft skills found on the job description so that they passed the ATS check, but what about when the recruiter reads your resume; or worse yet what about when during an interview talking about your soft skills puts the interviewer to sleep.

Let's put an end to boring soft skills sections and inspire the reader or interviewer to be excited to learn more about you from the work history/experience section.

Biz Analyst Potential to Biz Analyst Career

Being a Biz Analyst!😁

Biz Analyst moments: Business Analysis core concept model in action. In this episode we dive into using the BA core concept model as a checklist for all business analysis that we might do on a day to day basis, to be sure we fully understand the situation.

The BABOK talk: The Core Concept Model why is it used? What the heck is the core concept model? Why did they include it in version 3 as the basis for all BA tasks. The core concept model is the way to look at all BA work, and all knowledge areas and tasks in the BABOK. It is the simplest way to think about everything we do and how we do it, in order to frame how to think about our work and how to think about what tasks or knowledge areas we need to use in a given context.

Biz Analyst Moments: Being a mentee How to truly take advantage of mentoring as the mentee.

How to move your career forward: mentors and mentorship What does it mean to have a mentor? What are the benefits of having a mentor? The mentor, mentee relationship is a very unique one, and in this episode we will explore that relationship and how your career can benefit from being in a mentorship relationship.

Biz Analyst Planning Moment: A networking contact does not reply ...what do you do? Why did they not reply? Did I misunderstand the agreement? They must be the most inconsiderate person in the World. Let's look at the real possibilities and consider a stakeholder engagement approach!😁