First Offer - Job Search Journey

I decided to switch for a better position as a Business Analyst. I didn't know what to do and how to do.I started to google on how to draft a BA resume, got a sample and tried replicating it and uploaded it in different job sites, resulting in no calls.I did try making few changes in resume,ending up in the same situation.

I hadn't tried my hands at LinkedIn account which was created ages ago.I created a template message and attached a resume with it,connected with different people who worked as BA and HR by directly messaging each one of them to consider the profile for openings in their organisation and most of them hardly responded(realized it later this was a wrong method to network).

One day , a person responded with his number and said he is ready to talk on the following weekend to help me out.I was happy for the fact of getting a response for the number of messages sent. I called him at his convenient time on the weekend and greeted him and he was very warm with his response and started enquiring about my background and expectations. After listening out , fully he started suggesting ways to prepare for interview and changes to the profile which was reviewed earlier and shared his profile as a template.

I modified the CV as per his suggestions,which positively translated in getting recruiter calls with a few interviews successfully lined up.I attended them which resulted in rejections in the first few rounds ,i noted down the questions and was clueless on introspection.

I reached out to the him to understand where I went wrong and to my surprise, he invited me to his house to discuss.I went to his house the following weekend in the morning and we started discussing about my interview rounds and he listened to me completely,corrected me where i went wrong and how as a BA should those be handled.The discussion lasted too long that the time was past noon and his mom invited us for lunch i was initially hesitant but he comforted me saying it's okay you can "feel at home", which eased me and we had lunch with his family which was a very good time.After sometime ,when i was about to leave he gifted me something and i was inquistive on what could it be ?

I asked if i can unwrap it, to which he gladly agreed and i couldn't believe my eyes it was the book which i had been exploring quite sometime back and that came as a gift to me and the book name is "How to Start a Business Analyst Career" written by Laura Brandenburg .He asked me to finish it in a week or two ,to understand the different aspects of role and grasping the concepts of the book will help clearing the interviews and i obliged.

I have to thank my good-luck, calls kept coming later on and i started improving my performance in the interviews. But there were a few glitches in the last rounds with some companies due to my notice period and i had to let them go.To improve my handson skills,i took a small break in giving interviews. During this time i was in touch with him and discussed many topics/use-cases and how to approach them as a BA .

Finally one day lady luck smiled. I was preparing for this D-Day all these days and had a great interview comprising of four rounds(including the director round) which went positively. The offer was released in the next two days and for this mail to be in my inbox it took one full year.

I decided to tell him in person t hat evening which happened to be his wedding reception.This day is definitely an unexpected co-incidence and once i got onto the stage I greeted him and opened my offer news to him.He was more than happy for me and we started a great life thereafter:)