Strategies To Help Build Your Business Analysis Experience & Improve Your Business Analyst Skills

To help improve your business analysis skills and experience, if you have some free time available or are not currently working, why not volunteer to help a friend’s business, local club, or local society to improve their processes (process modelling) in some way.

Most businesses have a pain point somewhere in their end-to-end business processes and it is likely that you can help them with some of your valuable business analysis skills. You can understand their business pain points (elicitation), analyse the root-cause of those issues (root-cause analysis), do some research about potential online tools (solutions) they can use to improve their business in some way and prepare solution comparisons for them to enable them to choose the best solution to implement.

You may wish to use some use and reference some extremely useful business analysis templates with examples to help you on volunteering and provide a useful reference point to help ensure you are on the right tracks with the activities that your doing.

By documenting every step of the work, you do, you are not only gaining practical experience but building a portfolio of example business analysis deliverables you have created. Doing these types of volunteer-based business analysis activities gives you valuable experience to add to your business analyst cv/resume. In this way, by example you gain valuable experience in elicitation, analysis, stakeholder engagement and modelling skills.

Also, consequently, the people you do some volunteering for will be so grateful for your help that they would be glad to act as a reference when you do a good job. You will also have some real practical business analysis experience to add to your cv/resume and impress any future employers with your dedication, proactiveness and enthusiasm.