hey guys this is Karaleise Wahrmann and today
I'm very excited I'm very pumped up because I'm gonna be talking to you about how to break into
business analysis when you have no experience I mean this is one of the biggest problems
that people face so if you're having this problem where you want to become a business
analyst but you have no work experience I have some really good option of aspects for you
so stay tuned don't go anywhere see in a minute one and thank you for staying with me and today
we're going to be talking about the stuff that you came to hear about which is how to become a
business analyst with no experience so this is a very important topic to me because so many
people struggle with this luckily for us the business analysis and programming are two of the
careers and there there are others but those are the two I know of that you can break into without
having the work experience in the traditional sense meaning that you can find ways around this
problem and I'm gonna share with you what that is right now so before I get into that though first
if you want to become a business analyst the first thing I would say is do you know what business
analysis is you know become very familiar with business analysis with so find out more about
the career find out more about you know what it is that you're gonna be doing and what does the
business analysts do every day to make sure that this is something that you can see yourself doing
every single day you can work you know it's good to find out exactly what it is so I have a video
which I'm gonna put a link in the description or somewhere up here I talked about what is business
analysis and what do business analysts do so you can check that out to get a better understanding
of the field and then you can assess whether or not you really want to do this as your career
now if you've done that and you still feel like you want to be a business analyst then the first
thing you need to do I would say is to learn some basic programming now business analysts don't
write code every day we don't build software from the coding up but we need to understand
the concepts the technical jargons the ways that things are programmed so that when we're writing
requirements or user stories or use cases we can put it in the best way to translate from that
into code so you're not learning it necessarily to go and do coding but you need to be able to
understand what the coders have to deal with so that you can translate properly and also there are
some languages that you might have to actually do yourself like sometimes you have to write queries
so need to learn sequel you know so you want to brush up on that you want I would recommend sequel
HTML web technologies HTML CSS and also play a little server side like a PHP you know Python
but don't get too caught up about learning it you know extremely well you're just wanting to
understand how does it work and in essence if you know one programming language you understand
object-oriented code you know they don't need to know all of them it's just basic ok so that's
the person going to learn basic programming the other thing you want to do is this is the big
one gained some experience right which is the problem that we all have which is how do you gain
experience nobody give you a job for you to have that experience I get it I get it I believe me I
understand but we have to be creative we have to be willing to extend ourselves we have to be
willing to come up with things that you know others might not be doing so you have to be
willing to do a little bit more because you don't have the experience so my suggestion is this
ok listen to this when you have no experience the best thing you can do is you can create your
experience create your own work experience now how do you do this you do this by case studies ok
so you are a business analyst so you're aspiring to become a business analyst whatever business
analyst is going to be faced with every single day are problems business problems and you're gonna
have to find ways using tools and techniques to solve these problems for the business so you can
show that you you have a good understanding a good grasp of business analysis and you can be a good
business analyst by showing that in a case study so you can look for a problem in a business that
you've personally encountered you can look for just in situation that you can fix and you're
going to apply all of the tools and techniques they're going to learn from the by Bach first of
all you you know this is a sidebar but you need to be very familiar with the look if you're gonna
be a business analyst okay so you've learned all these techniques and so on you're gonna apply
that into a business problem that you encounter and then you create your documents you create
your requirements you create your flowcharts you create your user story sometimes and you
have this document of work that you'll use as your work sample and so when you're going to an
interview ask you hey we don't see you haven't worked in business analysis you know you have no
experience oh yes I really haven't worked formally as a business analyst but I love the careers so
much I know so much about the field I even solve problems that I had encounter personally based on
how I would if I was you know a business analyst with that company so I have here a sample of some
of the work I've done and you can go through and explain your problem and how you solve it how you
went about the Sabbath and show them examples of the type of work that you do and believe me that
will have a bigger impact on an employer who is looking to employ somebody in the business
analyst field that if you went in there with nothing to say oh I don't have an experience what
I'm gonna gain someone you employ me you know you can show them that you are forward-thinking and
this is how you would solve the problem now the only way this is gonna backfire on you is if you
don't understand business analysis and you don't apply the techniques properly so make sure your
work sample is perfect okay you can even give it out to other people who are in the field to review
for you and kind of make sure you're understanding the concepts properly and so on but I guarantee
that if you have this work sample that can be used at an example of folk you know of your
job the quality of work you can produce and that could take the place of a work experience of
course sometimes you know it's not gonna be easy people might say we want five years of experience
and so what I mean you can't fight that but if you're trying to get the entry-level position or
a junior be a position you can use that as proof that you're that much invested in the career
and that could help you that's what you do the other thing that you can do to break into linear
analysis is to learn the tool so most of what we use are just standard Microsoft tools so Microsoft
Word Excel PowerPoint are going to be the three big ones but we also use Visio Microsoft Visio is
your diagramming tool you use it to build your use case diagrams your flow diagrams and so and they
already come with all the little shapes that you need and you just pull them over and create your
flow so that's important to know as well but if you don't have Microsoft Visio then you can use
other tools online like lucid chart is very good it's online it's free I think for 14 days or
something but you just need it for in a short time anyway there's a lot of open source tools as
well I'll put the link below of the open source ones that you can use to build your you know
your diagrams and so on you also need to learn just presentation skills you know how to create
a good presentation so it's really mainly your Microsoft products you make mock-ups but
that I recommend balsamic it's pretty good but there's a number of other ones
that are also good and also I've linked to that I have a video on tools and
techniques that you can use for business analysis so I'll you can find it on my
channel as well I put a link somewhere
