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“What do Recruiters REALLY evaluate when reviewing a Business Analysts resume?” 

IIBA got input from 10 Senior PMO/BA Recruiters from Apex Systems, one of the world’s largest tech staffing and solutions organizations, who has a dedicated PM/BA Recruiting practice and supports 80,000+ jobs a year. 

Here is what these 10 Recruiters shared, who have a combined 100+ years of experience supporting Business Analysts during their job search!

• I always find myself looking for certain Agile keywords since all of the BA jobs I’ve supported lately require Agile experience. I seek out any experience with user stories, agile, scrum, sprint, standup, product owner, product manager, etc. – Jamie Allen  

•  I’m looking for answers to these questions as I evaluate resumes: “What specific deliverables were you responsible for? What methodology did you work within? What tools did you work with? What types of team members did you partner with? What’s your stakeholder engagement experience? What types of projects did you work on?” – Emily Pentico 

• I want to see day-to-day duties of how you actually use tools vs. textbook duties. If you mention you used SQL in your skills section of your resume, then explain how you used it to retrieve data for reports and analysis. Or explain how you created business process flow diagrams with Visio. - Marissa Ramirez  

• I typically evaluate and look for 6 things: type of clients/organizations, industries they’ve worked in, their tenure as a BA as well as their tenure with each client, specific projects they have worked on, and their methodology/framework experience. – Carolyn Vojick 

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