The Better Business Analysis Institute presence, the Better Business Analysis Podcast with Benjamin Walsh. Hi everybody, and welcome back to the Better Business Analysis podcast with Benjamin Walsh. And this week we're going to continue on our BA Byte series and we're going to talk about a topic that I think is really important for everyone around the world at the moment. Specifically in New Zealand, there are hundreds if not thousands of people losing their
jobs in the public service. A lot of those are BAS and testers as people look to AI and automation to replace BAS. Also in both the America and the UK, you have general elections coming up. So it is a word of change. The global economy is down and so today I want to talk about your CV. That's right, as you may find yourself unemployed or between jobs in the next little bit, I want to talk to you about your CV.
So let's get on with it. When you are putting it together, ACVI highly recommend using a LinkedIn profile. You can convert it to ACV. So your LinkedIn profile should have everything you've ever done ever for every job or experience in it. It's like the novel. And you use that to produce the specific CV you want to target a job, which should be one to three pages.
Now what I would recommend you have on your CV is make sure that you list not just the job and and you know how long you were there and the responsibilities. You should be listing the project achievements. OK, so things like increased process efficiency by 30% through the implementation of a new workflow system, reduced operational cost by 15% by optimizing resource allocation. And they need to be things that you did not that the team did.
You should, You can reference the team, but you need to say what you did in that. I was ABA who gathered requirements and worked in an agile development team who did the following outcome. The other thing is certifications. List any certification that you've ever received. Listing the BA relevant ones first business and then others. Now it's still worth listing. Certifications or degrees in other fields do not hold back. I think that's really important. BAS who have come from other
worlds are generally successful. You can obviously list your agile certifications, BA certifications, you know, your CBBA level one from the Better Business Analysis Institute or your CBAP from the IIBA. Then you want to list your industry experience. OK, so you can do this under the jobs, but I like to have it as its own section. So you could say I specialized in the finance, financial services area and focused on risk management.
Use keywords, buzzwords here that are relevant or talk about legislation change, maybe extensive experience in healthcare analytics using Power BI. So the industry and maybe the tools that you use. I know that sounds stupid. I know it's solution based and context based but that's how recruiters are looking for keywords on your CV. The other area are soft skills.
Make sure you demonstrate strong problem solving skills and cross functional team settings, proven track record of communication and stakeholders and all the great soft skills that BAS need to do like workshopping and requirements analysis. And finally, create content that you can link from your LinkedIn profile or send through to recruiters which give examples of your work. If you've done a presentation or a process diagram, anonymize that.
Or create a copy in a mythical or made-up world and show copies of your work. For me, that will tilt the difference between someone who has a very similar CV and I can see copies of their work and I know how they work by just looking at them. Then I'll go with that person
who's got a copy of their work. Now finally, don't be afraid to list personal interests, any professional achievements in any kind of sitting outside of BA. OK, but you need to really make your CV human and not just like, sound like you're just a robot. OK, we've gone over 2 minutes, but I hope that helps you make your CV kick ass in a strange world we live in right now.