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What comes first, the business analyst or the business analyst experience? If you’ve looked at BA job postings lately, you’d probably say the experience, as most BA jobs require experience. From one perspective, you’d be correct. But from another perspective, you’d be wrong.
For if every BA role requires experience, how is it that there are hundreds of thousands of practicing business analysts across the world? There must be something that’s helping a certain set of people break into the business analysis profession.
What actually happens in practice is that most business analysts, consciously or not, close their business analyst experience gap while filling other professional roles.