Business Analyst Interview Questions and Answers – How to Really Sell Your BA Skills

FREE JOB INTERVIEW PREP GUIDE:

If you are preparing for your first business analyst job interview or if it’s been awhile since you’ve interviewed, you are probably wondering what questions you can expect and how to answer them. Interviewing for a business analyst job is very different than interviewing for a more technical or domain-focused role.

In particular, what’s different is how you answer questions to position your skills to a potential employer. I’ve been on both sides of the business analyst job interview process multiple times – I’ve hired several BAs and, while I was contracting, I interviewed for several BA positions.

In this video, I share my insider tips on how to prove you have the business analysis skills your employer wants to see in an interview, so you can really sell your skills.

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00:00 How to Really Sell Your BA Skills
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4:45 Questions that Employers May Ask in Interviews
6:50 Interview Prep Guide

[rarenelson]

Just discovered you now when I just got a BA job straight out of college! Just wanted to let you know that you're doing an awesome job by doing this. :)

[prcarey]

So far, I've watched 7 of your videos. Couldn't be more pleased with the information. I feel more prepared for my first business position. I was previously in the military and education, so while have a lot of these prerequisite skills, I needed something to bring it all together. Thank you!

[LD-wfyt]

Our minds work like a CPU(s) in a computer. All unfinished tasks clog the CPU. The reason we do business process analysis is to discover important/natural regularly occuring break-finish points. When we reach such a break point we feel positive, happy, joyful etc. Alternatively, when those points are not clearly defined we feel lost, like driving on a road with no lanes. If others want our attention, unless emergency, they should put a Post-it note: "Thank you for completing this task. Join me to celebrate and let's get some fresh air". From this simple idea the world's challenges heal themselves.

[victorerickrodriguezpaz]

Hi Laura, great tips, hope to give you the news that I got the BA position

[elp]

Awesome resource and information! I joined. Thank you.

[wrestlingarchitect]

Great Stuff! Would you have a guide for interview questions and answers for business analyst in STAR format?

[CosmicFox]

Thank you for making this video! Super helpful :)

[raymeester]

Fantastic interview advice.
Thank you.

[johnereyimwen]

Thanks for sharing. Experience worth having

[fergaldownes]

Heya buddy, extremely good stream that you have here. I subscribed.

[danimatedo]

This is an excellent video. Thank you for putting such great advice out there. It's like teaching us to fish, rather than giving us fish.

[Pathrissia]

Thanks, and good luck to me. Going for an interview now!

Ed: Took your advice with examples. Felt rly good! Thaaank you heaps! Hoping to get the job!

[abhichoudhary]

Can you please share the link of Adam Hasler case study that you referred to ?

[tshepangplaatjie]

Can you kindly advice on the SACM Analyst Interview Questions?

[kez]

This is the dream mentor.. Thank you so much Laura

[fredsalfa]

My last interview I answered some questions in a straight forward way based on experience then they asked some questions about things I hadnt done before and all I could do was talk about it in terms of textbook theory. Well they could tell I was making it up from theory but I just kept on going as I had no other choice ! Anyway luckily I still got the job ! Lol.

[northernintrovert]

Thanks for the video! Please could you share a link to Adam's article? I can't seem to find it.

[komolhasanrabby]

The video is more about experienced BA looking for a job.. Do you have any video that may help fresh graduates?

[ramakrishnavedantham]

Mam it was really useful. Thank you very much.

[jbrrd]

Informative presentation, thank you Laura. A couple times in the video you mentioned including links in the text below, but I see none in the YouTube description.