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How To Pivot Your Career to Business Analysis
Step-by-step guide for a career change
Most business analysts come from other professions and job families.
You can discover business analysis when talking to friends, exploring corporate career boards, or participating in projects as a subject matter expert.
You become interested, learn more, and decide that business analysis may be for you.
Pivoting your career is rarely easy and may be scary. Yet, we do it out of necessity, when we discover a more attractive career path, or when our current careers are not going anywhere.
Some do it several times in their life — dramatic career changes become more commonplace.
So, what should you do if you want to pivot your career to business analysis?
1. Research.
It’s always a good idea to make sure this is what you want before expending too much energy, time, and money.
Start by exploring: what business analysts do all day?
What are they expected to create? What do the outcomes of business analysis look like?
What skills does one need to be a successful analyst? What types of companies hire them and why?
