Thanks Scipio.

You definitely can use your company's artefacts and you can do it ethically and legally if you take certain precautionary steps. 1. Ask your clients directly, and get their formal written permission. If you ask a manager whether you can keep work for your portfolio, you may find that the manager does not have any major issues as long as you take percautionary measures. 2. Understand you non-disclosure agreements with your clients/employers and strip out any details from the artefacts that may divulge information that would violate your non-disclosure agreement. You can do this by completely changing the subject matter and the client name on a use case, but still keep the sequences and steps (just as an example). Some clients and employers will not agree to it under any circumstances. You can skip those ones and focus on the ones where points 1 and 2 make sense. Is this guidance helpful for you to get a portfolio create for your next interview?

@@BABLOCKS Thanks Emal for suggesting this. Yes I definitely will follow these suggestions. I think stripping out the details and changing the subject matter seems more practical to me.

@@BABLOCKS This is exactly what I do in interviews (and also what helped me get a job recently). And if you cannot *show* the material in any way, at least you can describe what you did and the process you went through to complete those tasks/projects. *HOW* you explain your thought-process will tell the interviewer how well you know the material and also how well you can think/discuss (which is a CRITICAL aspect of being a Business Analyst).

Hi Shreya, you can view a professional BA resume inside our community to get a good idea of what the resume should look like. Consider joining us there: bablocks.com/membership/

It's not mandatory, but it can help signal to employers that you're taking the career seriously. You can become a business analyst without any certifications.

In this situation/interview-question, they are not necessarily looking for a 'correct' answer (because you have so little time to think/answer). What they are really trying to do is understand your *thought processes* and whether you can break-down a problem into parts. Then you could answer with some methods to investigate or get more details from various sources (people, online, manuals, etc).

It's definitely beneficial for you to include these experiences on your resume to show that you have some transferrable skills. Including a failed startup should not be an issue when it comes to credibility. It may be worth while indicating why the startup failed directly on the resume. Including such experiences may also help to explain gaps in your resume that may show if you didn't include these. Employers are more likely to worry about gaps than they are about failed projects. Best of luck with your search.

I agree with all the BA BLOCKS answers. In addition (from my point of view; 15+ years as BA and other roles), 1) even though this is not a 'direct' relationship to being a BA, it can show the interviewer your organization skills, and a proven record of coordinating such activities (which indirectly relates to being a BA, coordinating with different stakeholders).

If you have to show something to your interviews then sharing your screen is perfectly acceptable.

Valid point and thanks for the feedback.