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What is the “Toughest Challenge Facing Your Career Right Now”?
Your challenges may be about how to get a job or how to improve your skills or how to get promoted on the job
Perhaps your challenges are about how to transition out of or into a business analyst or computer programming or database developer career. Whatever they are, go ahead and post your comment and we will deal with them for you.
Post your challenging issues as a comment on this post and I would be glad to answer it for you. I may answer it by writing a new article that addresses your concern or by posting a comprehensive reply to your comment
The concerns or challenges facing you are important to me, so go right away and post your comment
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Kingsley,
My toughest challenge is no experience and not really knowing if I am capable.
I have been a carpenter most of my life and like I said before I have been through college and just got my certificate but am going to continue my education.
Before college I only had a sixth grade education. I have built a couple of web sites for some family and friends.
I have had classes in JAVA, Visual Basic 2005, C++, html, Microsoft office 2003, frontpage, and Access 2007.
Thanks for any help and suggestions you have.
Dickie Taylor
From everything you read, I would hope that you would be able to surmise that and tell me.
I believe it is a lack of direction. I have until June of next year to truly prepare myself for a new job market, and you basically know my qualifications, so I wanted to know, from your experince, what would be the most feasible thing I could do to prepare myself?
I am already working as a Quality Assurance Analyst, but I don’t know how long that will last since it is a temporary position.
I have started my Master’s degree in Information Technology, but I am wondering if it is a waste of time since my deadline is so limited, and the rate of return for self study is so high in the programming field.
I don’t have any real world experience with programming languages, and I would like to have that going into next year.
What is my best next move according to what you already know about me?
My toughest challenge is trying to construct a resume so when I finish watching the free video tutorials on asp.net, I’ll be able to gain an entry level position.
Also, I’m trying to get a contract job with web companies that’ll hire me.
I have minimal experience right now and I learn better from watching other people.
I’ve done a few exercises such as creating a calculator in c sharp and creating a small application.
I don’t mind doing free work for a while to gain more experience.
I would say learning a computer language.
I am working on C# right now. I was wondering if I can only know SQL and nothing else and get a job?
Knowing the total SDLC as it pertains to a Business Analyst.
I need some scenarios of others in order to know how I should tackle and spend time on instead of needlessly.
One of the biggest challenge, is finding a Business Analyst job.
I got my Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Information Systems 11 years ago, had two pretty good IT jobs in support and QA but then was laid off. After spending five years in aerospace manufacturing as an Inspector, my challenge (and longing) is getting back into IT as a Database or Systems Administrator. I don’t see my degree doing much for landing a good IT job, so what education and/or certification would be the most beneficial for me? Of course, another challenge is paying for the education!
I have attended about 5 Interviews for business analyst jobs but feedback kept telling that i have got communication problems. What is your advise as regards this problem?
Kingsley,
I have good experience in my home country as a business analyst but on relocating to UK the story becomes a little different. I have attended about 5 interviews now and to my own opinion, I guess I did very well but feedback discussion kept saying that I need to improve on my communication. What do you advise?
KAVITHA NAGARAJA:
You mentioned that the toughest challenge facing you is “finding a business analyst job”.
I am going to show you step by step, “how to get a business analyst job” … please post your comments here as you follow this step by step process:
Find out why you can’t get a business analyst job … it may be:
1.) You don’t have a core, strong marketable business analysis skill like UML, or Use Cases or Requirements Analysis.
2.) You may have a weak resume:
You might have strong business analysis skills and experience, but your resume does not highlight or do justice to your career
3.) You may have weak interviewing skills;
Your resume may be great and you and you may have strong business analysis skills and hands on experience, but you may have weak presentation or inrerviewing skills. This happens when you can’t convey the information you already know during the interview or your manner of presentation suggests that you lack confidence.
4.) You may have a Weak Job Search process.
You may not be skilled at finding and submitting yourself to a high number of hiring business analysis managers or you may be overwhelmed by the amount of work that goes into finding a job. The jb search process can create strong feelings of anxiety and even depression. Obviously if you are not feeling very motivated, then you won;t be able to conduct an effective job search.
So, Kavitha, evaluate your business analyst job search and tell me what part of it you find challenging and I will be glad to help you fix it and get back in the game
Thank you