Hi Wendy,

Good advice from Larimar. I haven't looked at his linked info, so hopefully he covered questions you could ask the interviewers. But in case he didn't I just want to add a few simple questions that I always ask the interviewers:

• What project(s) will I be working on? and What stage is the project at? It might be that the project is past the point where there is interesting BA work to do.
• What are the deliverables? then when they answer, ask them what their answer means in their company. Helps you understand what is expected of you and how they approach their projects
  

Good luck with the search

Kimbo 

Hi Wendy,

Here's a link to the post: 6 Traits of Great Business Analysts (and how to interview for them)

Waw Jarett, thats a wonderful post. The way you explained the BA traits along with interviewer ways of testing these skills in the candidates is awasome. The language used is simple and straight forward.

Can you please post any articles on requirement elicitation, as I believe capturing the right requirements directly reflect the success of the project.

Typically what is the percent of the time and resources are alloted for requierment elicitation to the total project time. I believe only 20% of time and resources are alloted for requirements- gathering and analyses and major time and resources are consumed in developing and executing the code. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Thanks again Jarett for all your input. I greatly appreciate all your help.

-Wendy.