Personal Curriculum Vitae and Mock Interviews for Business Analyst

This article provides guidance on creating a personal curriculum vitae and preparing for mock interviews as a business analyst. It includes dos and don'ts of interviews, preferred interview types, and analysis of formal face-to-face interviews. The article also covers employability skills, personal development plans, and suitability as a team player. The subject is business administration, and the course code is SG1019 Management First.

SG1019 Management
First

TABLE OF CONTENT
1. Personal curriculum vitae (CV) – For Business Analyst.............................................................4
2. Mock interviews and describing the interview process and the dos and don't of interviews......9
a. preferred type of interview.......................................................................................................9
b. Analysing chosen interview type.............................................................................................9
c. Dos.........................................................................................................................................10
d. Don't......................................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

1. Personal curriculum vitae (CV) – For Business Analyst
Robert steven
[e-mail]
865-785-6921
Professional summary
I am dedicated towards my work with excellent analytical skills and I also keep myself up to
date while solving any kind of problems which helped me raise effectiveness.
Education
BS in business administration – from year 2017-2020
Master of business administration – from year 2020-2022
Kings business school, UK
Hobbies and interests
Mindfulness
Listening music
writing
swimming
Skills I have:
 Problem solving skills.
 Ability to handle team
 Interpersonal skills and communication skills
 Benchmarking and gap analysis skills
 Risk management and analysis of risk Collaboration skills
certificates
 Training of Microsoft excel 2016
 Sales and marketing course from ADCA international academy

 Time management course from ADCA international academy
Employability skills
I am a great communicator as I can easily exchange my ideas and skills with other. With the
help of my communication skills I am able to enhance teamwork and sharpen my other skills
such as self-confidence, active listening and organizational skills. I am flexible in working and I
take the initiatives to undertake a difficult task and project too in different environment
(Suleman, 2018). With the help of my employability skills such as team spirit I am able to
improve my personal performance and enhance team working and minimize the errors and
mistakes for the future. Due to my team sprit skills I am able to value the efforts and
contribution of my team mates. With the help of time management and team work I am able to
build my strengths every day and improve my weakness as it gives me clear idea and direction.
I can easily collaborate with my team-mates which helps me to perform better in my job and
motivate me to work more effectively. With the help of my skills such as adaptability skills and
organisational skills I am able to maintain positive working environment.
Suitability as a team player
I can easily understand the importance of collaboration and embrace it which I think it’s a
suitable for me as a team player. Also, I am flexible in nature as I can work in every
environment which help me understand the diversity of opinions which leads to optimal
solutions. I think my I am having a strong collaboration skill which has given me a strength to
achieve goals in my life. As a team player I am able to solve problem of my team mates which
help me build my teamwork skills and leadership skills too. As a team mate of my colleagues I
am able to understand my job role and responsibilities perfectly which enhance me to join this
job role. I believe that I also respect the boundaries of my position within team which help me
build a good relationship with my colleagues. Not only this, my positive point is that I take my
role and responsibilities very seriously and I accept my mistakes also which helps me find
effective solutions easily. my team mates told me that I am able to learn from my errors just
because of my positive attitude. I am able to maintain a positive attitude even during difficult
times and stressful environment I always think positive while doing team work. Due to this I am
able to create a good working environment and better relationship. . If given chance I ensure
that I will create valuable changes and increase business processes. I believe that I am suitable

for this job and an effective team player.
Personal development plan
What I want to
do?
What do I have
to do?
What support and
resources will I need?
Time required
Patience level Online classes Regular practising with
the help of online videos
2 months
Delegation skills Workshops Regular coordination with
team-mates and attending
workshops online
1 months
Timidity Taking advice
from seniors
Regular practising to
avoid self sabotaging
2 months
Self-criticism Look at my
achievements
Regular practising to look
at my achievement and
celebrate my goals
achievement.
2.5 months
Too detail
oriented
Prioritise each
task and project
Online workshops 1.5 months
Not able to
handle
multitasking
work
Support of tutor
and leaders
Project management tools
such as Microsoft project
3 months

Sometimes I can be timid when working with my team-mates in the group assignment as I
provide them feedback on their work, I can be more timid. However, my team-mates told me to
change this and provide feedback properly without being timid. From this I have realized that
feedback can be both useful and kind when it is delivered in a right manner (Braileanu and et.al.,
2020). After that I have worked on it which helped me to provide meaningful feedback and
productive opinion which helped them and create self-confidence among them. Sometimes I
criticise myself for not doing work properly I believe that I am not showing much efforts even
though I am told I am. In my school days when I submit my assignment I always doubt myself
whether I have done work properly or not. I always wonder that if I should focus more on work
given by my teacher. But with the help and support of my tutor and co-workers I am overcoming
this by making more efforts at my achievements objectively. Now it has made me more
confident while doing work and I am able to see difference in my personal and professional life.
When my teachers provide me more than one work I think this would affect my workflow and
proficiency which has also hinder my deadlines (Woo and et.al., 2019). As I am not able to
complete my work on time if given more projects or assignment at a time. In order to deal with
this, I started utilizing project management tools which helps me to manage my given tasks and
save my time which is precious in today’s world. With the help of project management tools
such as Microsoft project it helps me create a planning properly and developed progress level.
By using this tool now I am able to keep track on my progress and which also help increase my
productivity level. In my past college studies, my teacher told me that I can be too detail-
oriented, they told me this is my weakness. Due to this, I have faced many problems like
ignorance of importance task, stressful work, missed deadlines. In order to improve this, my
teacher told me to do regular practice on prioritizing task as this can improve this particular area.
Now I am able to know about important project and not spending too much time on one little
detail related to project. With the help of this, now I am able to improve my productivity and
enhance my working level. One of my colleague told me that I am not able to delegate task and
roles to my team members. This hit me hard as I believe for future development I need to
improve this area which will help me to handle my team when I will be at good position. So, one
day I decided to complete this task by myself for this I have started using and practicing
management system of project and task. I started taking advice from experts in my known circle.

With their support, I am able to oversee the important project and when given chance I am able
to delegate task among people in my team.

2. Mock interviews and describing the interview process and the dos and don't
of interviews
a. preferred type of interview
The chosen preferred type of interview type is FORMAL FACE TO FACE INTERVIEW
which is a meeting between a potential candidate and the interviewer that always takes place in a
professional manner. The reason behind choosing this type is with the help of formal interview
candidate can express easily in front of interviewer, and they can communicate effectively. With
formal face to face interview, the employer who is going to take interview can easily decide and
make decision whether or not the applying candidate is suitable for the particular vacant position
in the firm (Woo and et.al., 2019). With the help of this interview type, one can build trust
between each other and foster relationships in a strong manner. By having this interview type,
one can have better collaboration and enhance greater productivity level. Not only this, this type
of interview process can also lead to more creativity and know about each other’s innovation,
knowledge level, ideas etc.
b. Analysing chosen interview type
By applying formal interview, the employer can know about the understanding and skills
of candidate. They can easily know about attitude and behaviour of person and their way of
talking with others. This method is efficient in their own way as interviewer and interviewee can
enhance their one-to-one meeting. For example-
 Interviewer- hello good morning could you please tell me about yourself and your
qualification details?
 Interviewee- good morning sir, my name is Robert Steven. I live London and my
qualification is PG in business analytics.
 Interviewer- tell me about your strengths and weakness ?
 Interviewee- sir, my greatest strength is my communication skills and dedication towards
work. I work well with my team-mates which helps me to complete task on time and
never missed a deadline of task and assignment given by my teachers. But I think I need
to develop my weakness that is my patience level, as I lose my patience level sometimes
which has created a lot of issues between me and my team-mates during assignment

work. In my school-days this weakness impacted my strong relationship with my friends,
so I think I need to work on it with the help of some practice.
 In this way, the formal face to face conversation takes place between interviewer and
interviewee.
c. Dos
 Firstly, the candidate needs to be in a proper formal dress code then only they can
impress the interviewer. Wearing business formal dress with positive body language and
good communication skills can impress the interviewer. Carry your identify proofs,
qualification documents, certificate if any, resume and any additional course document.
 Secondly, it is essential for candidates to review the questions that the interviewer will
ask you and not interrupt in between (Arora and et.al., 2020). Make sure to prepare a
questions list that could be asked by the interviewer and you want to know about what the
company is going to offer.
 Always make sure to do research on the firm success and achievement as interviewer
may ask you about it (Buonpane and et.al., 2020). They might ask you facts and
interesting questions about the company which you need to answer rapidly to get
selected. If you don't know the answer just say trust rather than giving wrong detailed
about what they have asked.
 Always keep eye contact with the person who is taking your interview and the candidate
must make sure to always sit upright so that the interviewer can see self-confidence in
you.
 Always look interested in all the questions which is asked by interviewer this will make
them believe that you are making one-to-one conversation (Teixeira da Silva and et.al.,
2020).
 Make sure to give thank you smile to interviewer for their time and efforts in reviewing
your resume and giving you chance to interview for the job opportunity.
d. Don't
 Always make sure not to go with poor body language as it will impact your personality in
a negative manner.
 Always avoid carrying mobile phones in between the interview process as this can create
negative impression in front of interviewer.

 Always avoid to give false information about yourself and the questions asked by
interviewer as it cannot impress interviewer (Brown, 2018).
 Always make sure to come on time as turning up late can create an impression of poor
time management. Interviewer will think that you are not responsible person and it will
decrease your ability to be punctual.
 Avoid being too casual with interviewer while greeting them, rather you should always
keep eye contact with decent smile on face with good manners.
 Be aware to avoid senseless talk while giving interviews as it can create bad impression
in front of interviewer.
 Try to avoid overconfidence as this behaviour can show your overestimation nature in
front of others.
 It is advisable to not speak poorly about past jobs as it can create bad impression in front
of others (Buonpane and et.al., 2020). Speaking negative about past jobs will create
impression as you were having problem which does not create benefit in your job
interviews.
 Try to avoid forget something in the interview time as it can create bad impression in
front of others.

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