Comments on: How To Become A CRM Business Analyst Consultant

By: IT Career Coach

IT Career Coach — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:04:40 +0000

How To Start a CRM Business Analyst Career? Evaluate the different CRM applications in the marketplace including the free ones and then choose the one that you are interested in.

Evaluate by reviewing the market demand for the applications, their learning curve, and the number of job postings on places like Dice.com for these specific applications.

Then choose the CRM application that best suites your preferences.

Whatever you do, make sure that you learn Requirements Analysis as well … because you can’t get away from that as a business analyst!

By: Mahar

Mahar — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:37:17 +0000

I am an experienced Java developer (3 yrs) and I want to make a career as BA.

I don’t have much experience in Requirement gathering, so I would like to go for CRM BA.

Please guide me on how can change my career.

I hold an an MCA (Master of Computer Application).

By: IT Career Coach

IT Career Coach — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:34:25 +0000

Aruna:

I would be glad to answer your questions … yes the business analyst job market is fragmented and at the moment, there are several domains available to business analysts.

There are career paths for business analysts:

1. The IT Business Analyst Career Path
2. The Domain Business Analyst Career Path

Before jumping into the Pharma / Healthcare domain question, let me ask you:

Why do you think that you’re best suited for a career in Pharma / Healthcare?

By: Aruna Earla

Aruna Earla — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:35:19 +0000

Hi,

I have a Master’s Degree in Biotechnology And Chemical Sciences In USA…
Recently I underwent a Business Analyst Coaching…After attending the BA classes, I have learnt there are so many domains.I want to pursue BA career in a Pharmaceutical/healthcare domain

My question is
How do I go about mastering the BA with respect to pharma/healthcare domain?

By: Suki

Suki — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:31:11 +0000

Dear Kingsley,

I am strugging with the same problem of Sri, what we differ lies in the working experience as I have been working in the IT sales and business development roles for 10 years within which I spent 4 years focusing on the business application solutions such as Oracle ERP and Business Intelligence of other packages.

Leveraging by my undergraduate study in Marketing and being myself the user of of sales force automation, I believe CRM is the domain area I should further specialise. Here is my plain points,

- For the positions of junior CRM business analyst, will the employers prefer fresh graduates in computer science & IT to seasoned sales professionals without academic IT foundation?
- I can take the CRM certification course to enhance my knowledge yet it seems the employers only value candidates with field experience with certification but not certification only.

I am also very interested in the free coaching session on “How You Can Transition To A CRM Business Analyst Career” and wonder if I can join as well.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards,

Suki