Requirements work
Show the requirements you elicited and documented, the format (user stories, use cases, process maps) and who signed them off.
RESUME EXAMPLE · BUSINESS ANALYST
Business analyst resume example
A structure you can follow for a business analyst resume, with placeholders for your own details, plus the skills and tools mentioned most often in the 53 open business analyst listings on ROLIVA right now.
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What employers ask for right now
SQL appears in 29 of 53 open business analyst listings on ROLIVA (as of ).
- SQL29 of 53 listings
- Python16 of 53 listings
- Tableau13 of 53 listings
- Agile12 of 53 listings
- Salesforce10 of 53 listings
- Jira9 of 53 listings
- Excel8 of 53 listings
- Stakeholder management8 of 53 listings
- Confluence7 of 53 listings
- Looker7 of 53 listings
- Power BI7 of 53 listings
- Snowflake6 of 53 listings
How this is counted: each open listing’s description and stated skills are checked, on whole words, against the same fixed skills vocabulary ROLIVA uses on its job pages and its monthly skills reports. A listing counts once per term. A mention is not a requirement, and the counts change as employers open and close roles.
Example structure
One column, standard headings and real text: easy for a recruiter to scan and for an application system to read. Fill each bracket from your own record, and delete any section you have nothing true to put in.
[Your name]
[City, Country] · [email address] · [phone number] · [LinkedIn or portfolio URL]
Summary
Business analyst with [number] years of experience in [domain], turning stakeholder needs into requirements for [type of system or process].
Experience
[Job title] · [Employer] · [City] · [Month Year] – [Month Year or Present]
- Ran [number] workshops with [stakeholder groups] to define requirements for [system or change], documented as [user stories, use cases or process maps].
- Mapped the [current process] in [BPMN or another notation] and identified [gap or problem] that led to [decision you can confirm].
- Used [SQL, Excel or another tool] to analyse [data] for [question], and presented the findings to [audience].
[Earlier job title] · [Employer] · [City] · [Month Year] – [Month Year]
- [Two or three bullets in the same pattern: your action, its scope and a result you can support]
Skills
[Skill or tool] · [Skill or tool] · [Skill or tool] · [Skill or tool]
Education
[Degree or qualification] · [Institution] · [Year]
What to stress in a business analyst resume
Stakeholders
Name the groups you worked with and one decision you helped them reach.
Analysis and tools
Give the analysis you did (process mapping, data analysis, gap analysis) and the tools you used for it.
Skills section
Requirements elicitation, user stories and acceptance criteria, process mapping, stakeholder management, and data tools you have actually used.
Write evidence-based bullets
- Start with what you did. Open each bullet with a verb that names your own action: built, wrote, led, analysed, ran. Avoid “responsible for”.
- Add scope. Say for whom, how much or how often: the team, users, region or volume. Scope makes a duty into evidence.
- Show a result only if you can support it. A number is useful only when you could explain how it was measured. If you cannot, describe the outcome in words instead.
- Use the employer’s words where they are true. If a term in “What employers ask for right now” matches work you have done, use that wording in your skills and bullets. If it does not match your experience, leave it out.
Patterns for business analyst bullets
- Ran [number] workshops with [stakeholder groups] to define requirements for [system or change], documented as [user stories, use cases or process maps].
- Mapped the [current process] in [BPMN or another notation] and identified [gap or problem] that led to [decision you can confirm].
- Used [SQL, Excel or another tool] to analyse [data] for [question], and presented the findings to [audience].
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