Business Analysis
BA – Needs Assessment (Remember focus on the problem nor the solution)
User Profile Canvas/ Persona (analysis my current status as a job seeker, put as much as details)
1. Pains
2. Gains
3. Jobs-to-be-done
Problem statement (one page)
Empathy map of that employer (quantitative, try to define as much as their feeling or thoughts)
Develop a persona of the ideal candidate for this job posting (One page)
SCAMPER Analysis (answer the questions )
Substitute
What can be substituted?
What can be used in its place?
Who can be involved instead?
Which process could be used instead?
What other material could be used instead?
Combine
What can be combined?
What can be mixed?
How might certain parts be connected?
Which purposes could be combined?
Adapt
What other ideas are suggested by it?
Is there anything that is similar and can be applied to the existing problem?
Have there been similar situations in the past?
Modify
What modification could be introduced?
Can the meaning be changed?
How might the color or shape be changed?
What can be increased?
What can be reduced?
What could be modernized?
Can it be enlarged?
Can it be downsized?
Put to another use
For what other purposes could it be used in its present state?
For what purpose could it be used if it were modified?
Eliminate
What could be eliminated?
What are the things it would still work without?
Reverse
What other patterns would also work?
What modifications could be introduced?
What could be replaced?
What could be rearranged?