📄 Career Strategy
⏱ 12 min read
Your Resume Isn't Failing You.
Your Strategy Is.
75–80% of resumes never reach a human. Not because the candidate is underqualified because the strategy is wrong. Here's the gauntlet your CV has to survive.
Your Resume Isn't Failing You. Your Strategy Is.
The unfiltered truth about what hiring managers actually look for and how to make your resume work harder than you do.
of resumes are screened out by an ATS before any hiring manager sees them. The ones that survive receive an average of 6–10 seconds of human attention.
It's not that candidates are underqualified. It's that most resumes are built without understanding the gauntlet they have to survive.
The Reality of Modern Hiring
Write Achievements, Not Job Descriptions
Your Pre-Submission Checklist
Content
The candidates who land interviews aren't always the most experienced. They're the ones who were strategic. Quality over quantity. Specificity over generality. Value over activity.
🧠 AI & Future of BA
8 min
AI Didn't Take Your Job But It Will Expose Whether You Have One
The production layer of BA work is being automated in real time. What remains is where your actual value lives and most practitioners aren't ready to own that conversation.
🤝 Stakeholder Management
Coming May 2026
The Art of the Difficult Stakeholder: A BA's Field Guide
Every BA has that one stakeholder the one who changes their mind weekly, never replies, and arrives at UAT with a new list. Here's how to manage them strategically.
AI Didn't Take Your Job — But It Will Expose Whether You Have One
A straight-talk piece for Business Analysts navigating the AI shift — 2026 edition.
Let's get the headline out of the way: AI is not coming for your BA job. But it is making visible exactly what you bring to that job. And for a large number of practitioners, that's the uncomfortable part.
The Easy Parts Are Gone
For years, a meaningful chunk of BA work lived in the production layer — drafting user stories, writing summaries, formatting requirement documents. AI does most of that now. In seconds. So the question is: what were you doing beyond the production layer?
Two Types of BAs Walking Into 2026
Built on Output
Valuable because they could produce quickly. AI has made that value proposition a commodity.
Built on Judgment
Valuable because of how they thought what they asked, challenged, and saw that others didn't.
A Practical Audit
If you removed all the documents you produced last quarter, what decisions did you influence?
When did you last push back on a stakeholder who outranked you?
Can you point to a moment where your involvement changed the direction of something?
What to Do About It
Use AI for the production layer
Free your cognitive bandwidth for the parts it can't touch.
Invest in the judgment layer
Deeper domain knowledge, better facilitation, sharper analytical frameworks.
Measure yourself in outcomes, not deliverables
Decisions influenced, risks surfaced early, clarity created where there was none.
AI isn't the threat. Complacency is.