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Hi there!

I guess I can post here right? it is the NSW forum :P

Yes I'm in IT, more so I've been a Business Analyst for the past two years in this firm which specialises in broking, I won't mention names.

Well long story short, I need to a find another job that actually pays me the average IT BA salary in NSW which is $65-$85k and a place which will open more doors and with potential career development.

I've been stuck here for the past two years, with them promising Crystal Training, BA courses, even PM courses... empty promises, terrible. All of the analysts in my team are looking for new jobs, one has already left and the other has just signed a contract elsewhere.

Yes you can see, terrible employee retention!

Anyways a quick run down of my professional skillset (quite limited due to my current workplace)

• Business requirements gathering, Analytical skills

• Experienced with System Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

• Documentation skills using MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint,

• Onsite system implementations of web auditing systems, claims management systems

• Configuration of IIS v5.1, 6

• Application support over phone and/or on-site

• Troubleshooting, diagnosing problems & planning solutions

• Software and plug-in testing

• Client facing, client focused

My Responsibilities at my Current work Place:

• Technical & Business specification writing/documentation

• Testing implementations on clients, testing of custom plug-ins and utilities

• Implementation of STARS Audit & Claims products, install, configure and test

• Training clients during project deployment

• Technical Application support for all products, onsite or via phone

• Installation of SQL Server databases for clients not using Oracle

• Data mining and manipulation using TOAD

• Website configuration of IIS for products (STARS Audit, STARS Web)

• Troubleshoot installations, upgrades and new implementations if required

My Responsibilities at my Previous work Place:

• Quality Assurance of Computer Based Learning Packages in Small Arms and Accessories

• Regression testing, black box and white box testing of interactive packages

• Managed User Acceptance Testing (UAT)

• Management of defects database, using Sea Pine’s Test Track Pro

• Allocation of work, i.e. defects to be fixed

• Staff training on using weapons multimedia packages

• National Restricted Security Clearance to access small arms specifications & restricted areas

Summary of my Technical Skills:

• UML Modelling, i.e. workflow, use case diagrams using Visio

• SQL, data mining, trigger changes using TOAD

• Installation, database schema creation, using SQL Server 2000

• Experience with MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio

• Animations using Macromedia Flash 8

• Able to understand and code in VB, Java, C

• Black box and White box testing

• Configuration of IIS for web based products

• Application & hardware support

• Implementation, deployment of software

• Application/Technical support

• Networking, wired & wireless (LAN & WLAN), exposure to CISCO routers and switches

If anyone is able to help, please PM me, I would really appreciate it. It's so hard finding a job these days, there's so much competition and choices for recruiters.

But help a brother in need to mod his car :P

Cheers,

Johnny

whats your current salary now o.O

my bro is a 3rd year BA and he gets over 100k

I left my previous job that paid me 65k whilst I was at uni for this role, thinking it would take me places. I was wrong.

I'm only on 51k base.. it's terrible and I've been here nearly 2 years, they recently sacked 100+ staff in the US. Our team in Australia only consists of 14 members.

It is a joke, if I stayed at my old job, I would have easily hit 80k

Johnny, do you have any crystal experience? We might be looking for someone in the next couple of months with your skill set. Unfortunately the pay wouldnt be much more than 70k package or so, but definitely not much less either.

We've got a production environment with Oracle(SQL) Database (tight, well maintained and structured, not a total shit-fight :)), Crystal Reports (Business Objects Enterprise), and a Java front end. Looking for DBA / Sysadmin with experience in SQL Procedures/Views and Crystal..

Let me know via PM if it sounds interesting and I'll keep you posted. It wouldnt start till at least November though, as I'm about to go on leave for a couple of months and I'm doing the hiring! :P

Are you guys even speaking english?

Damn computers have some funny names/phrases!

Anyway, if you can sell, and I mean actually go out, motivate yourself, knock on a door, meet a new person, build rapport easily, find what a customer wants (sometimes being very subtle about this), then close a deal id say to forget about IT and go to sales. You could even sell IT products (i wouldnt know where to start anymore though, havnt sold software for a while).

Sales ALWAYS pays for people that can prove themselves as a good salesman. I dont mean to offend anyone reading who may happen to be in Internal Sales, but im not meaning the sort of sales where you sit by a phone and wait for it to ring, i mean doing deal after deal day in day out by getting out there and being proactive (for example, look on seek.com for an internal role vs external role then compare packages).

All this talk of tough economic times etc and look at the top sales reps in most fields - they still have jobs they're happy in. If you're a productive sales rep a company wont fire you, at times they'll try to pretend you're not an asset but when you say you're going to walk just watch that attitude change.

Sales is not for everyone, but if you want to earn 6 figures, you're crazy to not consider it :)

All this talk of tough economic times etc and look at the top sales reps in most fields - they still have jobs they're happy in. If you're a productive sales rep a company wont fire you, at times they'll try to pretend you're not an asset but when you say you're going to walk just watch that attitude change.

Sales is not for everyone, but if you want to earn 6 figures, you're crazy to not consider it :D

+1

A good sales guy is hard to find and in my experience usually ends up getting head hunted for their next roll because of their skills and/or customer base they can bring across.

I even know a lot of sales guys i don't rate, but because all they can sell is themselves, are on very comfy packages.

We've got a production environment with Oracle(SQL) Database (tight, well maintained and structured, not a total shit-fight :P ), Crystal Reports (Business Objects Enterprise), and a Java front end. Looking for DBA / Sysadmin with experience in SQL Procedures/Views and Crystal..

Let me know via PM if it sounds interesting and I'll keep you posted. It wouldnt start till at least November though, as I'm about to go on leave for a couple of months and I'm doing the hiring!

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could i please request for the email address to send the resume ?

Got Crystal and SQL experience more than 7 yrs dont mind salary my frd is currently unemployed he worked as BA ( Crystal reporting). please help my email add is [email protected]

im in IT in the payroll industry we also deal in HR and recruitment ill be sure to do some asking around for you mate.

Hi

I am experienced Configuration /Problem manager (got ITIL experience about 5+ yrs) looking for work ? Please help . thanks in advance

We've got a production environment with Oracle(SQL) Database (tight, well maintained and structured, not a total shit-fight :P ), Crystal Reports (Business Objects Enterprise), and a Java front end. Looking for DBA / Sysadmin with experience in SQL Procedures/Views and Crystal..

Let me know via PM if it sounds interesting and I'll keep you posted. It wouldnt start till at least November though, as I'm about to go on leave for a couple of months and I'm doing the hiring!

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could i please request for the email address to send the resume ?

Got Crystal and SQL experience more than 7 yrs dont mind salary my frd is currently unemployed he worked as BA ( Crystal reporting). please help my email add is [email protected]

dude go create your own thread, don't hi-jack mine.. where's the SAU respect?

Don't see me grass cutting your g/f!

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