Become a Business Analyst without IT Background | JanBask Training

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Want to Become a Business Analyst without IT
Background?
Chapter 9
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Introduction
Many successful business analysts today have
started their career with a different job role.
SO, here is the answer to all those who ask a
question quite frequently can I become a
business analyst without having prior experience
or IT background?
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objective

• Introduction
• Diagram
• Brief Description
• Understand the job role
• Interact With Experts
• Optimize your current job role
• Project Documents
• Diagram 2.0
• Training and Certifications
• Relevant Experience
• Conclusion

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Diagram
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Brief Description
Bullet Points about Business Analyst

• Business Analyst roles may sound different to
  you, but it should be emphasized. 
• Business analysis has no defined boundaries
  rather it is diversified. 
• You must have strong communication skills and
  emotional intelligence to perform this role
  creatively. 
• A business analyst is responsible for collecting
  user requirements and implementing technical
  solutions to cater to those needs. 
• Therefore, we can say that a BA works as a
  connector between a business team and an IT
  team. 
• Due to this reason, people think that starting a
  career as a business analyst need good IT
  knowledge. Relax, this is not true!

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Understand the job role
Understand the job role of a business analyst

• Improving the overall business model by changing
  the ongoing strategies for the betterment
• Implementing new technologies and ideas to take
  the business to the next level, 
• Calculating all the measures that can boost
  revenue are the key responsibilities of a
  business analyst.
• We all handle the role of BA in some aspects as
  we are contributing to organizational growth.

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Interact With Experts
 Interact with business analysts and learn

• Heard business analysis experts success stories
  and implemented their ideas to build a strong
  career. 
• When you communicate to a professional of any
  domain, they share domain-specific information
  that helps you a lot in going forward. 
• Ask them about the challenges they faced as a
  business analyst and what strategies applied to
  address those issues.
• Another important point that you must ask a BA is
  about all the references or sources from where
  they learn something to improve skills and
  perform better. 
• You can join various forums, communities or
  groups wherein business analysts discuss their
  experiences, job opportunities, tips tricks,
  and learning resources. 
• You must have the ability to represent your
  current job as the basic level role of a business
  analyst to make your entry easy in the business
  analytics world.

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 JOB Role

• If you keep an attitude of improving the process
  of your daily activities, you are already on the
  track of becoming a good business analyst. 
• Going office, doing the same job in the same
  style every day will neither add benefit to your
  growth nor organization growth. 
• No matter whether you are at home or office, try
  to figure out the ways that can improve the
  results of your job role.
• You can create an excel sheet for yourself or
  involve other people to check whether or not you
  are improving the existing process. 
• Once you start working on so many projects, you
  get an idea of all the possible aspects of a BA
  to handle a case, and it helps you to grow
  faster.

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Project Documents
Go through some Project Documents

• A business analyst listens to people carefully,
  convert their words into business requirements,
  and send it to a team. 
• This is a very critical job, and a minor
  difference in understanding can create a big
  problem. 
• To start a career as a BA, you should first go
  through some project document write ups
• In the business requirement doc, you will find
  information related to user requirements, project
  scope and the method of the overall process. 
• In the technical requirement document, you will
  learn about technical things like how user
  requirements can be implemented. 

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Diagram 2.0
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Training and Certifications
Get some training and certifications

• To start a career in business analysis, BA
  training can help you build a foundation. 
• Before choosing any business analyst course, make
  sure you have done a depth analysis, and the
  institute you have chosen holds a good reputation
  and can help you get a valuable certification. 
• When you take training from a reputable online
  platforms, you learn good things and apply your
  learning to get a job as a business analyst. 
• Also, the chance of employability remains high
  while you have the right skill set and valuable
  knowledge. 
• While joining a training course, prefer those
  institutes that can provide you some experience
  or certification so that you can use it as proof
  of knowledge regarding BA.

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Relevant Experience
Show your experience relevant for the job role

• Sometimes we do a lot but unable to present and
  it is easy too. But, showing whatever you have
  done in a bigger form is challenging.
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• If you want to get success in your career, you
  must know how to play around it. 
• You need to explain the connection and importance
  of your experience with a BA job
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• You need to think carefully about your experience
  and prepare a note of how it is relatable to a
  business analyst role.

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Conclusion

• If you have no prior experience in the business
  analyst field, focus on your current role and try
  to filter out relevant responsibilities from it. 
• You can develop an experience for a BA role
  gradually. 
• With your little steps, enter the world of
  business analytics, work on different projects,
  gain more knowledge and gain experience in
  various areas. 
• Once you have enough experience, you can easily
  move to a stable BA position. 

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