6 Tips to Hack yourBusiness Analyst ResumeAn overview

Your resume’sgreatest

weakness

Your resume’sgreatest tool

6 examples of accomplishments,

for business analysts

By RESUME HACKINGwww.resumehacking.com

An average business analystresume looks like this:

While a great business analystresume looks like this:

Yes, they both talk about databases and processes...

HUGE IMPACT But there are subtle differenceswhich have a

Let’s explore that together.

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Your Resume’sGreatest Weakness

To understand what makes a great resume, let's start with... To understand what makes a great resume, let's start with...

In order to rock, yourbusiness analyst resume shouldcover both these aspects:

Implemented a new customer support application...

... which jumpstarted customer service delivery by 40%.

Roles and responsibilities

Benefits for the employer

Analyzed employer's largest customer information database...

... removing over 10,000 records, to bring database into referential integrity standards, allowing for a smoother transition to new systems.

Roles and responsibilities

Benefits for the employer

Implemented a new customer support application...

*silence*

Analyzed employer's largest customer information database...

*silence*

Roles and responsibilities

Benefits for the employer

Most resume’s greatest weakness issimply a lack of benefits.

Without enoughbenefits (or value) from the employer’sperspective, yourresume will simplyblend in.

And that’s no fun.

“So, Richard, how do I include these great benefits, to make my

resume stand out?”

You’re asking the right questions! And the answer is simple:

Accomplishments.

Accomplishments

Your resume’s greatest tool…Your resume’s greatest tool…

What is a resume accomplishment ?

An accomplishment is a statement (one bullet point), containing both parts.

Roles and responsibilities

Benefits for the employer

Another way to look at accomplishments is “what you did” vs “what your employer gained”

What youremployer gained

What you did

Roles and responsibilities

Benefits for the employer

“I think I get it, but can we look at a few examples, just to be sure?”

You’re right! Enough with the theory. Let’s go back to the resume

examples we started with.

The average business analystresume is ONLY talking about rolesand responsibilities

But the great resume balances the two parts:

If you put yourself in the employer’s shoes,

... you quickly realize that the average resume has nothingspecial. It’s just a business analyst, with the usual processesand controls, business rules, and systems integration.

And you have a full pile of similarlyaverage resumes. They’re all equally unappealing, because...

…the resumes filledwith accomplishments

rock!They’re about this guy whocan lead a data warehouse

project, or this girl who canimprove customer service

with a new application.

If you want to make yourresume shine, go crazy on

accomplishments!

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6 Resume Accomplishmentsfor Business Analysts

Now, to help you hack your resume, here are…Now, to help you hack your resume, here are…

Any sort of saving obviously has direct impact on the bottom line. From the employer's perspective, that's always valuable, even if the figure is only a few thousand dollars.

Saved $1 million in costs by choosing a new provider of data system.

Leveraged the quote-to-cash business process map created by the Business Process Improvement team to create a concordance [...]. This concordance was the first of its kind in the company and used as a template for others.

Keyword here is: "first"... Whenever someone creates or initiates something, there's already a sense of dynamism, a desire to make things better, which resonates with hiring managers.

Managed small development teams with development of ASP.NET and SQL2005 web properties. Here, we see leadership and management skills.

Notice that, in this example, “what you did” also includes “what your employer gained”. It would be redundant (and a bit silly) to say “I led a team, which means that people were led.”

Improving customer service delivery probably means that you're saving time or money down the line. This is a concrete, positive result. If you don't know the exact number, an estimate will do.

Jumpstarted customer service delivery by 40%, with new customer support application.

In this example, I’ve put the emphasis on the financial value of the program. The undertext is: ‘Here’s how much I’ve been entrustedwith.’ In other words, I’m reliable.

This accomplishment also talksabout the employee’s leadership, but the real impact lies in the $9 million figure. (Read the sentence without it – it loses a lot of punch!)

Led $9 million program to deliver enterprise data warehouse.

Ultimately, the benefit here is the smooth transition. However, the impact is really felt with the ‘10,000 records removed’.

Quantify your achievements and results as much as possible!

Analyzed employer's largest customer information database, removing over 10,000 records to bring database into referential integrity standards,allowing for a smoother transition to new systems.

Including many accomplishments in your resumeis the most significant thing you can do to makeyour resume stand out. Period.

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