What Is The Toughest Challenge Facing Your Career?

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What is the “Toughest Challenge Facing Your Career Right Now“?

Your challenge may be about how to get a job or how to improve your skills or how to get promoted on the job

Perhaps your challenge is 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.

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Sarah

Hi,

The Toughest Challenge is to be able to get a job as Business Analyst.

I do get interviews but getting through interview as Business Analyst is quit a big challenge for me right now.

I need help getting through interview as BA. All the interviews have been, have been very different style, format and different technical questions.

Any help available for me I would really appreciate.

Regards

Shondraye

Hello:

I’m new to IT.

In my last job, I was training to become a Microsoft Consultant but the position was eliminated.

I don’t have much IT experience or an undergrad degree in computers; my undergrad degree is in Biology.

I obtained some certs like A+/Net+ and some Server 2003 certs in my last job.

I’m trying to decide if I should go back to school and to get a computer related undergrad or grad degree.

What’s your opinion for those trying to get IT related positions without much experience?

Are there certain IT careers that are geared more toward entry level candidates?

Thank you,

Xolani

I am currently i a very frustrating situation, i really need advise in this regard.

I am currently employed as a business analyst, but the tasks that i perform are not Business analysis related instead they more technical, first line support.

I am really frustrated about the matter because now it seems as if i am not developing in terms of my Business analysis.

Should I move, or not?

Because the environment it self does not accomodate business analysis.

Please advice……….

Thank you

Anna DEmichele

Hello

I want to know what the difference is between writing a procedure, writing a user or system manual.

Thanks

Hardik

How can i apply in your institute and how much is the fees for the courses.

Please inform me

Steve

I want to be a programmer. Where do I begin?

What e-books do I need to buy?

What does course cost?

What else would I need to buy like books or software to achieve this?

Your “The Complete Guide To A Successful Programmer Career” what will this tell me or teach me.

If I am planning to do course with you do I need this e-book?

Hi Kingsley,

Thank you for your reply, I see that you are taking questions so I was wondering if you could give me some advice!

I’ve recently applied for around 15 Business Analysis jobs in London and have had absolutely no feedback at all.

I’m finding this most disheartening, as when I was applying for PHP work around 6 months ago, my phone was ringing off the hook!

I have an excellent CV (as many agencies have commented) which is still very programming heavy.

I did spent some time trying to rewrite this to gear more towards Business Analysis but it was difficult as most of my current work experience has been coding.

So I decided that I would use the covering letter which accompanies my applications as a vehicle to showcase why I would be suitable for their Business Analysis role. A ‘killer’ covering letter, if you like.

Except that 15 applications later with no feedback at all (not even a ‘thanks but no thanks’), I’m finding myself not knowing what my next step should be…

After your advice, I briefly looked into BA training but the websites I found which offered these courses seemed to be quite costly. Maybe I need to rethink this?

Also I now doubt very much that my covering letter is ‘killer’, I have attached this and was wondering if its possible for you to have a look and advise me on this…

Thanks in advance Kingsley for your time and help

Kind regards

Tom

Dear Sirs,

I am certain I am going to need additional mentoring and support during and/or after I have finished the Business Analyst Boot Camp and Data Analyst Boot Camp.

As of the moment what are the costs for getting additional mentoring?

Thanks,

Mary Bolton

What is the toughest challenge in my career right now?

My toughest challenge is deciding what to do next and how best to prepare for a switch in direction?

I am a cobol, db2 programmer in the IBM z/os Environment.

In addition, I am the Senior on the Business system.

I was there when it was being written as a contractor, then hired on full time (12 years now).

I am ready to move on. But to what?

I am torn between the Business Analyst course or the programming course I have yet been able to transistion from COBOL to VB.NET.. and was wondering if this might help.