How This Edtech Startup BA Helpline Is Encouraging Aspirants To Be A Business Analyst

• ByStartupStory     |    August 21, 2021

“Never run after certifications, as certifications does not give you a guaranteed job. Please understand that they are costly, and when you are just beginning it is not required. You can go for certifications at later stage. Self-Learning is the Best Learning. Do research, speak to more and more people to enhance your knowledge, utilize websites such as Udemy, LinkedIn, and YouTube to its best,” says Diwakar Singh, Founder, BA Helpline, in an insightful interview with Startup Story.

About The Founder

Diwakar Singh the founder of BA Helpline is an electrical engineer, business analyst and an entrepreneur. He is working as a Business Analyst in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for over 5.5 years. He has performed business analysis in the realm of IT, HRMS, Travel, E Commerce, Sports, Event Management and BFSI. Moreover, He is also the founder of WeMob Solutions, a service-based agency providing end to end business solutions to business problems under one roof.

Beginning Of BA Helpline

When we asked Diwakar about the idea behind the establishment of BA Helpline to he replied, ‘I had faced a lot of challenges, difficulties, and humiliation when I began my career in Business Analysis. Infact, I thought of quitting once, but I had no option that time. That’s the main reason of setting up a platform like BA Helpline where I can guide, mentor, motivate, and inspire every business analyst out there in the world.’ While talking about the ideation process, Diwakar also shared an anecdote of how does it all began. Earlier Diwakar was not much active on LinkedIn. Therefore, one fine day, he wrote a post on Business Analysis, the domain challenges that Business Analysts are facing that he himself has confronted. Fortunately, the post went viral and got 70k+ views. The whole next week hasn’t been like an ordinary week for him. Many people sent him connections. He had talked to many people who were sharing their experiences with him, and that made him realize that there are a lot of gaps, misconceptions revolving around the Business Analysis profession. And that sparked the idea of sharing his knowledge with BA Aspirants as he believes ‘Business Analysis is a beautiful, challenging and interesting job to do.’ Since then, he started writing every day that led him to connect with people from all over the world. By far Diwakar has guided and motivated aspirants from countries like the USA, UK, Canada, Sri Lanka and Dubai.

What’s BA Helpline?

BA Helpline was established in May 2021. The aim is to help and guide aspiring Business Analysts in pursuing their career in Business Analysis. This is for freshers and experienced professionals who want to start their career in business analysis or transform their role into Business Analyst.

Why Should One Choose To Be A Business Analyst?

Business Analysis is an extremely demanding role. Every company needs a business analyst in today’s time. ‘If you’re ready to take the challenges, ownership, and leadership. If you love interacting with people, have management skills, you’re an analytical thinker, you have problem solving mindset and a decision-making attitude; then definitely BA (business analysis) is for you. As the name states it means you’re supposed to analyze the business. It can be a business need, problem or the requirement. BA is more about soft skills, how you empathize with your clients, how you come up with the solutions for their problems and unfortunately many people aren’t aware about it and they believe the job of Business analysis encompasses business intelligence and analytics and more with computer technicalities,’ said Diwakar. He believes the utmost trait for BA is learning mindset. One must observe the market trends, should learn from it and act accordingly. Diwakar has termed this concept as OLA (Observe, Learn and Act).

Services Offered By BA Helpline

Foremost it offers a free BA Counselling session. The counselling session is one on one with the founder. Anyone from across the globe can connect with him on LinkedIn asking for the queries regarding BA. The aim is to help in clearing all queries related to business analysis, business analysts, its roles and responsibilities, soft and core ba skills, ba market, and its future scope. Another service they offer is Resume Building. They will assist in creating a professional resume which will showcase one’s skills and that will help in getting more job offers. They will also review and modify your existing resume to get more calls. The third service is Business Analysis training. They will train and guide the individuals so that one can crack any BA interview. Their training method and mock interviews will make you ready to tackle questions asked in the interview. Icing on the cake is, BA Helpline will also help you in finding jobs that match the aspirant’s skills. Not just this, the job search will be done considering your priorities.  

Future Plans & Funding

‘The only vision is to help more and more people in the career of Business Analysis. I always try to clear all the queries of aspirants in the counselling session, and show them the correct path. It is not always about training and that’s the reason, I never recommend myself or any training institutes to them. Sometimes, it’s about motivating people. They’ve the required skills but they’re afraid of it. Moreover, they don’t know what all skills are actually needed to perform business analysis. Therefore, I want to reach more and more people and spread the awareness and knowledge, so they can look up to this interesting and beautiful profile as their career option,’ said Diwakar.

He told Startup Story about funding that BA helpline is a fully bootstrapped startup.

Customer Feedback

The feedback for BA Helpline has been great until now. Diwakar has mentored more than 200 BA aspirants in just 3 months. His posts on LinkedIn are very informative, motivating, inspiring, and has helped lot of Business Analysts in their interview preparation.

Advice To Future Business Analysts

‘Don’t restrict yourself with the information on the internet, connect with more and more industry experts, and don’t confuse yourself by seeing the job descriptions posted on job portals. It’s a very good profile and the career path is wonderful. Be confident and stay positive.’

 

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