Business Analyst CV Formant

choyaa

Hi All,

I tried this on the IT forum but I didn't get a conclusive answer so I thought I'd try here. How does the following Business Analyst CV format look?

I've been a Business Analyst for over five years and a professional for around ten years and I'm looking for help on the format of my CV, several people have given me several examples but nobody agrees so I wanted to know if my own format suffices and it's as follows:

1. Name, address, mobile number and email address.

2. Summary of career history.

3. Technical skillset.

4. Projects worked on.

5. Employment History

6. Education (only degree and not A Levels stated), I have also stated the modules studied and year's placement details.

7. Additional information - hobbies.

Any advice would be great.

KiKi

Is this the one I looked at the other day?

asajj

I'd put employment history on top of technical skills and projects.

General_Grant

Don't include hobbies - use the space for your skills and experience.

Unless of course your hobbies are truly relevant to the job and their attributes are not otherwise demonstrated on your CV.

Cotta

KiKi wrote: »

Is this the one I looked at the other day?

That was mine friend.

KiKi

I know it was 'yours', but this seems so remarkably similar (including the job, the CV content, the modules and year placement and timescales) that it sounds like mine and others' opinions and time spent reformatting and amending weren't quite enough.

Simon11

You can order your CV however you wish. The important point is to have your key selling points at the top of the CV.

szam_

Mine is ordered:

- Name, contact details etc.
- Overview/description of myself in third person.
- Key skills/transferable skills
- A more personable description of myself
- Employment history and descriptions of more recent employment
- Education

Granted, my Education is theoretically my "weak point" which is why I have it last. I'm in a job at the moment requiring degree level education, I have a few poor grade GCSE's and I'm mostly self taught. Education wasn't for me and I didn't really start absorbing knowledge like I do now until I hit 22.

The formatting is very simple and easy to follow, very "basic" but also looks slick and professional at the same time. When I was last looking for work I must have redone it every week or so until I was happy with it, so around 10-11 times.

CV's are subjective. My advice would be, in any role, keep it as simple as possible, don't make it look overcomplicated. I reviewed some CV's a few months back and people sometimes try a bit too hard on them with fancy tables which looks ridiculous because you can fit 3 words a line in a box and it mismatched on another section. I am in I.T. however, so I am bound to pick up on those things, I guess.

DKLS

General_Grant wrote: »

Don't include hobbies - use the space for your skills and experience.

Unless of course your hobbies are truly relevant to the job and their attributes are not otherwise demonstrated on your CV.

Never include hobbies, I have binned many a CV purely on what has been put in the hobbies section.

For a BA CV, i would want to see what projects YOU worked on and what YOU did, not the team, I don't care about the team I am not interviewing the team, I want to know what you did and what the ROI was or the recommendations were etc.

directdebiter

"Summary of career history" should be Key Career Achievements.