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Resume Roast for Business Analysts

Business Analyst is the most stretchable title in the building, so reviewers scan the resume to figure out which BA you are: requirements and process, data and SQL, or product-adjacent. Vagueness here reads as identity confusion. Name your flavor, then prove it with an artifact and an outcome: requirements that shipped a system, a process map that cut steps, analysis that changed a decision.

What Gabe checks first on a Business Analyst resume

Declare your working toolkit: requirements docs, process mapping, SQL, dashboards, user stories. The BA title says nothing; your artifacts say everything.
Tie work to shipped outcomes, like requirements for a billing migration that landed on time with zero critical defects post-launch.
Show one measured improvement, like remapped the intake process from 14 steps to 6, cutting turnaround 40 percent. Analysis that changed nothing is a hobby.

Worth knowing

The claim that ATS systems auto-reject 75 percent of resumes traces to a 2012 marketing claim, not research. (traced to a 2012 vendor marketing claim)

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