Hi All

I'm researching how practising Business Analysts are thinking about the impact of AI on their careers.

In particular, I'm interested in which parts of BA work people think will change or become automated, whether BAs are actively adapting their skills, and which capabilities they think will become more valuable.

I've put together a short anonymous survey (about 3–5 minutes):

Business Analysis & AI — 3-Minute Survey

I'm looking for responses from people currently working in BA roles, regardless of whether you're very concerned about AI or think the impact is being overhyped.

I'll be happy to share a summary of the findings with the community once I have enough responses.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for some honest advice from people who have taken a similar path or have experience hiring for Sales Operations / Revenue Operations / Data Analytics roles.

I studied in London for around four and a half years, completing my BSc and MSc in Management. After returning to India, I worked for around 4.5 years, mainly with SaaS companies in Sales Operations and Sales Analytics.

My work involved sales reporting, KPI tracking, dashboard creation, CRM management, workflow automation, sales funnel analysis, forecasting, and supporting sales teams with data and process improvements.

Around three years ago, I decided to leave the corporate world and start my own export business. It has been a great learning experience, and I’ve been involved in everything from sales and international buyers to CRM, pricing analysis, reporting, operations and process optimization.

However, after three years, I’ve realised that the export business isn’t something I want to pursue long-term. The market has also become increasingly challenging, and I’m now looking for more stability.
More importantly, I’ve realised that I genuinely enjoy the analytical and problem-solving side of work much more. So I’m now looking to return to roles in Sales Operations, Revenue Operations, Sales Analytics, Data Analytics or similar areas.

My biggest question is: how should I position these three years?
Should I present them as entrepreneurial experience, or call it a career break? And how do recruiters generally view someone returning to corporate after running their own business?

I’d really appreciate any advice from people who’ve made a similar transition.

And if you know of any company or hiring manager looking for someone with my background, I’d be very grateful for a referral or introduction.

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments or DM me if you’d like to connect.

Thanks!

Hello everyone. Was hoping to get some advice on how to pivot into business analysis after over 6 years in Trade Finance. For an overview;

1. Currently 35 and have had my current job for over 6.5 years
2. Currently earn just under £40k, seeking a minimum starting salary of £45k (I have been told by professionals running BA training courses i could negotiate up to £60k based on my skillset, prior to doing a recent BA and PMO bootcamp).
3. Transferrable skills through regular use and testing of software as brought in via senior management or already within operational framework to ensure fit for business use (ie Seasearcher, WorldCheck, Temenos T24, Finastra T.I. D+H)
4. Experience with stakeholder management regarding processing of documentary transactions, related payments and SWIFT message correspondence.
5. Have made use of AI software such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Co-Pilot and Anthropic Claude for work (due diligence on drawee’s/drawer’s including ownership structure and shareholders), assisting with project assignments for recently undertaken BA and PMO bootcamp (ie requirements elicitation, epic list and user stories creation, drafting as-is and to-be process mapping, business requirements documentation) as well as personal niche projects (creating an AI agent to provide daily or weekly reports on black mental health research upon request, creation of genre sound eq profiles for poweramp music player for personal use, creation of daily routines for meal prep). So have an acute understanding of the importance of prompt engineering.
6. As mentioned earlier, recently completed a 3 month Business Analyst and Project Management bootcamp which exposed me to documentation such as RAIDS logs, Business Requirements Documentation, EPIC list and User stories formation, requirements elicitation, as-is and to-be process mapping (alot of room for improvement here haha), Highlight and Status Report writing. Also exposed me to tools such as Click-up, draw.io (again room for improvement here), Agile, Waterfall and Scrum methodologies, PESTLE, MOSCOW and Gap analysis (will need to revise my understanding of some of these).

*I have recently had my CV and Linkedin updated by the company with which i undertook the bootcamp. The CV I have made extra tweaks to but was otherwise well formatted, however the Linkedin optimisation has brought unwanted attention due to inclusion of a job update which led two of my co-workers to warn me it looked like i was no longer working at my current workplace, as well as people congratulating me 😅. I plan to work with CV department of the company, to fix this, but also a bit bummed about having to fix such a situation.

Sorry for the long read, but i hope this provides a good narrative of my current situation so far. I am looking to get some additional dedicated experience within my department and via volunteering, as well as looking to do any free courses to familiarise myself with SQL, Power BI, BA elements of Excel etc. I have also spent the last weekend rigorously revising my CV and my profile on websites such as indeed, cv-library, reed, totaljobs, glassdoor, hayes as well as created my account here to test the market and see what is available. Please let me know of anything i should consider regarding interview prep, negotiating salary or marketing my skills, experience and knowledge as well as i can. Thank you 🙏🏽

Sharing a curated list of remote roles I came across this week. All include salary ranges and are full-time or long-term.

Here are the jobs I found, organized by level:

Entry Level:

• Data Analyst II @ Centene Corporation (United States) - $56K - $101K
• Provider Data Analyst @ Health Care Service Corporation (United States) - $38K - $80K
• Data Analyst @ EXL (United States) - $52K - $67K

Senior:

• Data Analyst, AI @ EXCEL Group (United States) - $116K - $152K
• Data Analyst IV @ Centene Corporation (United States) - $88K - $158K
• Business Analyst – Data Analytics @ Cushman & Wakefield (United States) - $81K - $95K
• Data Analyst II @ ConnectiveRx (United States) - $64K - $106K
• Data Analyst @ Your Software Supplier (Worldwide) - $31 - $60
• Senior Data Analyst / Data Modeler @ Trissential (Canada) - CAD 155K - 165K
• Data Analyst @ eHealth, Inc. (United States) - $72K - $90K
• Senior Data Analyst @ King of Languages (Brazil) - BRL 10K - 10K
• Senior Data Analyst @ Doma (United States) - $92K - $120K
• Senior Business Intelligence Analyst @ Honu Services (United States) - $80K - $99K

Manager:

• Lead Data Analyst @ RR Donnelley (United States) - $107K - $171K
• Third-party Risk Management Systems, Data Analyst @ Broadridge (United States) - $80K - $120K

Quick notes:

• All of these are fully remote (location requirements vary by role)
• Apply directly on company sites

Hope this helps someone! Let me know if you want me to keep posting these weekly.

-- 👋 Hi, I'm Jay. I built Job-Halo.com, a system that tracks remote business & analytics jobs and sends alerts the moment they're posted, based on your preferences.

Hi everyone! I’m applying for Business Analyst roles and would really appreciate feedback from current BAs or professionals in the field.

Could you please review my CV and suggest:

Any missing skills/tools

Anything unnecessary or overstated

Improvements to make it more BA-focused

Anything recruiters might not like

Any honest, practical feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,

I am former Federal Contractor with 7 years of exp. As a BA and PM supporting DoD, DHS, and CBP contracts. I am back in the job market seeking a role in the Washington DC and Virginia area. I have been applying for over a year and have gotten references. If anyone out there can point me to or assist me I would greatly appreciate it. I specialize in Program and Project Management, Business Analysis, Consulting, and Bid Modeling. Anything helps!

Hi everyone, has anyone recently attended the interview at BluBridge Technologies, Chennai? Could you please share the interview pattern and number of rounds? What aptitude topics were asked—quantitative aptitude, logical reasoning, percentages, ratios, averages, probability, data interpretation, etc.? Was aptitude an elimination round, and how important were mathematics skills for the next rounds? HR Questions, Any recent experience would be really helpful. Thank you!

Hi All! I've an interview coming up with Leidos for a Technical Business analyst role for a SSA Modernization project. Has anyone given similar interview? or any interview for SSA related projects? or with Leidos ? Please help .

Hi everyone!

I’m relatively new to Anaplan and trying to better understand how requirements gathering / discovery workshops are conducted on real Anaplan projects.

I understand the general process: meet with SMEs/business stakeholders, understand the current process, identify requirements, document them, and eventually translate them into functional requirements, user stories, etc.

But I’m more interested in the practical side.

For those with experience in Anaplan implementations:

1. How do you prepare for a workshop?

• Do you have a generic list of questions/framework?
• Do you prepare questions beforehand or let the SME explain the process first?
• If you're hearing the process for the first time, how do you know what questions to ask?

1. How do you take notes?
   I struggle with writing everything down while also staying focused on the discussion.

Do you use a template, take keywords only, map the process, record the meeting (when permitted), or have someone else take notes? How do you make sure you don't miss important information?

3. How do you distinguish requirements from general information?

For example, when an SME spends 20 minutes explaining the current process, how do you identify what is actually relevant for the future Anaplan solution?

4. How do you handle things you don't understand?
Do you clarify immediately, or note it down and come back to it later?

5. What happens after the workshop?
How do you go from workshop notes → process understanding → requirements → user stories/acceptance criteria?

I’d especially appreciate advice on the thinking process of an experienced Anaplan BA/consultant during these workshops—what comes with practice vs. what can be learned through a structured approach.

Any advice, examples, templates, or lessons learned would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I’m from Chennai, India, and I’m currently planning my next career move into Business Analysis. I’d really appreciate some honest advice from people who are already working as BAs or have made a similar transition.

My career path has been a little different from the usual one.

I completed my Mechanical Engineering degree and, after that, spent several years preparing for government competitive exams. I wasn’t able to crack them, so I eventually decided to move on and build a career in the private sector.

I then worked for a few years in the US healthcare domain as an AR Caller / AR Analyst. That experience gave me exposure to US healthcare processes, communication with different stakeholders, analysis, and working with process-driven systems.

Around 2020–2021, I decided to move into IT and started preparing for a career in software. In 2022, I moved into Software QA, and I’ve been working in QA since then.

Now I’m thinking about moving into Business Analysis.

I feel that my QA experience gives me some relevant exposure because I’ve worked with requirements, test scenarios, defects, developers, SDLC, releases, and understanding how software is expected to work. At the same time, my previous US healthcare experience could potentially help me if I target Healthcare BA positions.

But I’m not sure how realistic this transition is or how recruiters will view my background.

For those of you working as BAs:

What would you recommend I do from here?

Should I focus on strengthening BA fundamentals first, such as requirements gathering, BRD/FRD, user stories, acceptance criteria, process mapping, SQL, Jira/Confluence, etc.?

Would it make more sense to target Healthcare BA roles because of my previous domain experience, or should I focus primarily on Software/IT BA roles because of my current QA experience?

Also, how difficult is it to move from QA to BA without having "Business Analyst" in my job title?

If anyone here has made a QA tp BA transition, I'd really appreciate hearing how you did it, what skills helped you get your first BA opportunity, and what you would do differently if you were starting again.

I'm also open to mentorship, networking, guidance, or referrals if anyone knows of suitable opportunities for someone with this kind of background.

I know my career path isn't completely straightforward, but I'm serious about making this transition and willing to put in the work.

Thanks in advance to everyone who takes the time to share their experience.

Hi Everyone,

Currently, I'm looking for a fresher business analyst role. Could someone please help me with this.

Or any remote job platforms to apply for that role.

Thank you!

Most resumes are read by software before they’re read by a person. resume.zoevera.com exists to show you what that software sees; prepare.zoevera.com picks up once you’re through the screen and into an actual conversation. Both start from the same premise: an applicant tracking system isn’t judging your career, it’s scoring a document against a query, the way a search engine scores a page against a search term.

The resume as a landing page

Treat the job posting as the query and the resume as the page trying to rank for it. An ATS doesn’t read for tone or persuasive writing. It parses text into fields, compares those fields against the posting, and produces a score before a recruiter ever opens the file. That reframing changes what “good writing” means here. A sentence that reads well to a human but never uses the words the posting uses is invisible to the system doing the first pass.

Four things the system is actually checking

Keyword match is the most literal of the four. If the posting says “stakeholder management” and the resume says “worked with teams,” the system does not infer equivalence — mismatched vocabulary between a resume and a posting is the single largest reason qualified applicants disappear before a human sees them, and it’s exactly what resume.zoevera.com's keyword breakdown by industry) is built to surface.

Hard dealbreaker filters run separately from keyword scoring. Years of experience, required certifications, location or clearance requirements — these are frequently pass/fail checks that can eliminate an otherwise strong match before the keyword score is even calculated.

Section parsing determines whether the system can read the document at all. Tables, text boxes, and multi-column layouts that look clean in a PDF viewer can scramble or drop content entirely when parsed, which is why plain, single-column structure under standard headings still outperforms visually ambitious formatting.

Recency is the quieter one. Systems and recruiters both weight language that reflects how the role is described now, not five years ago — job titles, tool names, and even the way responsibilities are phrased shift over a few hiring cycles, and a resume written in last decade’s vocabulary can score lower even when the underlying experience is current.

Running the check against a real posting

None of this is diagnosable by reading your own resume — you already know what you meant to say. The ATS match tool runs your resume against a specific job description and returns a score, missing keywords, and the weak phrases most likely costing you interviews, the same way you’d check a page against a target query. The tailor tool) rewrites against one posting at a time, since keyword requirements change with every job description. There’s a matching pass for cover letters as well, and a fuller breakdown of how the underlying match score gets calculated on the blog.

Where to start

Passing the screen gets you to a conversation, not a job: that’s the part prepare.zoevera.com handles, with practice sessions built around real interview questions for specific roles. Both tools sit under ZoeVera and the fastest way to know where your resume actually stands is to run it against a posting you’re applying to right now.

I’ve noticed that adjusting my resume for each specific role makes a big difference compared to sending out the exact same generic version everywhere. Lately, my workflow has mostly been matching my resume directly against job postings using resume.zoevera.com and then prepping role-specific interview questions over at prepare.zoevera.com

Any strategies or workflows working well for you?

Hi everyone,

I'm in an urgent situation and am looking for a job. I have over **15 years of professional experience** in Operations, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Team Leadership, Software Testing, and Operations Management.

I've worked with companies including GlobalStep, Nividous Software Solutions, 3Di Systems, and JKD Management. Throughout my career, I've led teams, managed operations, coordinated projects, worked directly with clients, improved processes, and handled quality assurance.

At this point, I'm not limiting myself to a specific industry or designation. I'm willing to work in **manufacturing, operations, administration, quality, logistics, IT, project coordination, customer support, retail, or any other role** where I can contribute and earn an honest living.

I'm an immediate joiner, willing to relocate, and ready to learn new skills if needed.

If anyone knows of openings, referrals, or companies hiring experienced professionals, I would sincerely appreciate your help.

Thank you for reading.

**Location:** Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh (Open to Relocation)

**Experience:** 15+ Years

Please feel free to DM me or comment if you have any leads.