Top Skills And Certifications Helpful In Business Analyst Entry Level Strategy Roles

Business analysis is the task of understanding the various changes that are required in the arena of a business. It assesses the different business impacts, captures and analyses documents and also to look into the delivery of the requirements of the relevant stakeholders. The business analysts are required to improve the process and system of work of an organization. They also conduct research and analysis to come up with various solutions for the problems faced by the business enterprises.

A business analyst often acts as a bridge between the business stakeholders and IT. The business analyst must possess excellent communication skills. The work of a business analyst is very closely related to the IT sector. Business analyst also defines the scope and objectives and formulates systems to parallel the overall business strategies.

The speaker in the video is a business analyst who provides a brief insight into the top skills that needs to be possessed by the aspirants. The speaker also briefs the audiences regarding certain business analyst certification and course that shall prove to be helpful to the aspirants for breaking into the entry level strategy roles.

• The speaker states that to get into the entry level strategy role, it is necessary that in terms of education the aspirants should have an analytical background that would help to take the correct decisions while addressing the various problems of the concerned organization or business enterprise. 
• The speaker further states that pursuing a management course is one of the best routes to get a nice break in some of the top consulting firms.
• The speaker also states that the aspirants are required to expose themselves to the various business strategies and get a brief insight of all the strategies so as to enable themselves to structure the multiple problems that confront the business enterprises on a daily basis. 

Top Skills Required To Break Into Entry Level Strategy Roles

• To have a career in consulting and strategy at least for the entry level positions it is essential to follow the right academic route.
• The speaker in the video advises that the aspirants in order to break into the entry level roles should get themselves enrolled in certain engineering programs or any other program which helps in building up the analytical abilities of the aspirants. 
• Along with building ones analytical abilities one should also gather knowledge regarding the various concepts such as finance and the like. The aspirants should also hold certain expertise on the different corporate ideas of marketing as well. 
• The aspirants can also seek help and advice from individuals who are engaged in the consulting and strategy field. The information taken from such persons shall be useful typically in the interview phase where the analytical capability and decision making ability of the aspirant is put to test. To effectively and efficiently crack the interview phase the aspirants need to structure their answers carefully using their problem solving ability. 

The speaker further states that reading various books related to the domain and gathering information of all the current happenings of this field shall prove to be a great aid to the aspirants to connect the dots in a more better way. The perfect amalgamation of practical and theoretical knowledge will also be quite helpful to the aspirants to structure the problems effectively. 

Essential Certifications Or Courses Required To Break Into Entry Level Strategy Roles

The speaker in the video also briefs the audiences regarding certain business analyst certification or courses that would help the aspirants to break into the entry level jobs in their field of consulting and business analysis. 

The speaker states that there is no one particular certification that will enable the aspirants to break into the entry level jobs. 

• The speaker stresses on the fact that the aspirants should have excellent mathematical skills, the absence of which shall create problems for the aspirants to enhance their analytical abilities. The aspirants, therefore, should hold a good mathematics background or take a course for strengthening their analytical skills. 

These courses enable the aspirants to get a brief insight as to how the business works at a high level. This knowledge would allow them to break into the entry level jobs quite easily. 

• The speaker further advises the aspirants to take up only those certifications which hold great value in the field of business analysis. 
• The speaker suggests that more than certification it is essential to enroll oneself in more of courses that are relevant for developing one's analytical skills. The aspirants should also take courses that would strengthen their data engineering skills as well. 
• The speaker advises the aspirants to also go for courses that strengthen their statistical data model such as data visualization of the aspirants which are very much required to break into the entry level jobs. 

As per the speaker, analytics is a vast spectrum of skill sets that are essential to get into the field of consulting and business analysis.