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Originally Posted by Fairly New graduate
Pros and cons? Its something I would be thinking of after around four years of permie, as a business analyst, are these skills likely to stay in demand?
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Business Analysis is in fair demand, recently been involved in hiring half a dozen.
BUT inexperienced BA's who don't actually understand how companies work and how to sort a real requirement from a wishlist item or how to optimise business and technical processes stand out like a sore thumb.
Had a very good, but very inexperienced BA on one of my recent projects and while his ability to produce top notch documentation was excellent he struggled like mad with the Business side of stuff. Fortunately he was a good listener and was working with a team of very experienced people and he learned fast, but there's no substitute for experience.
Purely my opinion, but a couple of years of working for somewhere decent is necessary to be effective as a contract BA.
Oh and to answer the original question I went to contract with some rather high demand technical skills 3.5 years after uni.