Hello and welcome to my YouTube channel!
Today I'm going to talk about
how I started my career in Business Intelligence Analysis so let's get started.
Before I get into my journey let's define business intelligence analysis.
So it is the whole process before and after data analysis, and it also includes data analysis.
This includes collection of data, cleaning it up
and making sure it's ready for analysis in order to give actionable insights.
Business intelligence is really important because it ensures we have one source of truth,
one true data, one reliable data in order to make fact-based decisions.
Anyways!
Before I started my Business Intelligence Analysis career,
I already had a background in IT but don't let that deter you, because a lot of folks
that I did Business Intelligence Analysis course with they didn't have any IT background.
So I have a masters in IT for Management from Coventry University in the UK.
So this is the course I did
and um and it's called Management of Information Systems and Technology right now
but when I did it, it was Information Technology for Management but it's still the same thing.
So my master's was years ago so moving to Canada I had to do a course at SAIT which is Southern
Alberta Institute of Technology and usually an Institute of Technology is usually hands-on and
practical so you have to like learn how to actually do the work not just theoretical.
So this institute is in Calgary, Alberta and the course I did was Business Intelligence
Data Analysis and Reporting it was really like a short program for six months.
So it's called Business Intelligence Data Analysis and Reporting and it's
a full-time intense program for 24 weeks which is like six months,
but the first four months you spend in class from 8 a.m to 4 30 p.m.
And even after that you have course works and you take quizzes or tests every single week
so it was really intense but it was a good program and um I'm happy I did it.
So usually when you come into a new country depending on where you're coming from
you have to find a skill to bridge the gap.
Because it's either you have the Canadian experience for my case,
or you have the Canadian education but usually usually it takes a lot of work to just depend
on your past experience for you to get to where you were before you moved to the new country.
So it's either you start with menial jobs or you just go back to school and
then restart your career or just add a Canadian education to your certificate.
Anyways that was what I did and that was how I actually
entered back into the job market as a Business Intelligence Analyst
and I love data to start with, I love IT and this was was a good break for me.
So my point is anyone can actually start a career in data analysis
by just doing a short program or just reading it up.
There are other courses I know out there so this is the one I did and
this is how I started my career in Business Intelligence Data Analysis and Reporting.
So yeah, I just thought to share because I know some people are coming into Canada from different
parts of the world, migrating as permanent residents and maybe through Express Entry,
or some people are just anywhere in the world trying to start a career in
data and you don't know where to start, so you can actually do a course or you can go
to this website and just check out what the course entails and maybe read up on different topics,
different subjects that are under this course that will probably help you to find your path.
So this is another option this is called is a college called Bow Valley College
so everything I'm talking about is in Calgary, so you can also research any
destination you have in mind, any province or city you want to be in. But the Bow Valley College is a
somewhat cheaper version of SAIT it doesn't mean they're not as good but depending on
your pocket you can go to Bow Valley college and do this IBM Business Intelligence Analyst
course I know nothing about it because I didn't do it, that's a disclaimer out there but I'm
just saying like if you're looking for other options you can make inquiries into this one.
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