Know your story, prepare for interviews, get the offer right, then plan your first 30 days.

One numbered route for BAs moving into an employed role, with a returner kit

Eighteen files in one route: know your story, prepare for interviews, get the offer right, then plan your first 30 days, with extra support for returners. The examples are fictional.

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Written by Jennifer Brandt, working senior BA in UK financial services · 25 years in BA and consulting, including a Big Four firm.

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Cover of Starting Out or Returning to BA, version 1.1.

What’s inside

18 files: 13 Word, 3 Excel, a Start Here PDF and licence notes. Version 1.1.

Step 1, know your story. Skills self-assessment and evidence and STAR planner (three worked examples, six story sheets); career gap and change guide, with a returner interview kit and a worked example after a six-year break; BA portfolio template
Step 2, prepare for interviews. Interview question bank: a one-page Core 15 list, then 40 questions with frameworks and strong answers; four 30-minute case exercises; model answers, kept apart so the cases are not spoiled, plus a two-hour mock interview schedule and scoring sheet
Step 3, get the offer right. Offers, negotiation and probation: offer letter checks, negotiation scripts, a probation review sheet, notice, references and a phased return
Step 4, your first 30 days. Playbook, first-week plan and meeting agendas, a checklist, a stakeholder map and a questions, decisions and assumptions log (the last three in Excel)
A Start Here PDF and licence notes

Who it’s for

Returners after a break, career changers and new BAs heading for permanent or fixed-term roles.

How it fits

Start with the free 30-day plan and a free practice case. This pack is the fuller set of working files behind them. Starter is the toolkit for doing the BA work itself. Contract topics (rates, IR35, assignment start) are in the BA Contractor’s Pack.