Resume format by role
Business Analyst resume format
The layout, section order and skills for a business analyst resume, from the business analyst job postings in SwitchWithAI’s role library. Then build it free, in Word and PDF, in the layout already chosen for you.
Recommended layout
Banner
One of the builder’s five ATS-friendly layouts, the one made for data roles. Every layout reads top to bottom, so recruiting software parses it in order.
Section order, fresher
- 1. Contact and links (GitHub, portfolio, Kaggle)
- 2. Skills: SQL, spreadsheets, BI, programming
- 3. Projects with the question each one answered
- 4. Internships
- 5. Education
- 6. Certifications
Section order, experienced
- 1. Contact and links
- 2. Summary
- 3. Skills
- 4. Experience, each line a decision your analysis changed
- 5. Selected projects
- 6. Education
Skills
The skills business analyst postings ask for
These are the terms the business analyst sample posting in SwitchWithAI’s role library lists, from the same library its ATS checker compares a resume against. Put the ones you really have where your work shows them, not only in a skills list.
Skills for every role in the library, side by side, are on skills for resume.
What a business analyst recruiter reads first
Data roles are screened on tools first (SQL, Excel, Python, Power BI or Tableau) and judged on outcomes second: what question you answered and what changed because of it. A dashboard nobody used is weaker than a report that changed a decision.
Mistakes to avoid
- Tools with no sign of what you did with them.
- Model accuracy without the business result it served.
- Leaving out the size of the data, when you know it.
A bullet pattern that works
Analysed [data set] with [SQL / Python] to answer [business question], which led [team] to [decision], saving [X].
A pattern, not an example to copy: fill each bracket with something you really did, or leave it out.
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