Business Intelligence?

[hillarypcof]

Hello!

Does anybody work in the field of Business Intelligence/Informatics and have any advice or hints/tips for a job interview?

My friend has an interview next week for a Business Intelligence Analyst within the NHS. Any help would be much appreciated - thank you! x

Do they have experience with various BI tools?

They don't - we went through the person spec with a highlighter - she meets all of the "essential" skills and experiences, and all of the "desired", apart from previous experience of/with BI tools. Do you think they could see around this as she compensates everywhere else?

Can she offer experience of any data presentation and manipulation? Ie offering clarity in data through presentations, strong excel skills and any experience with programming/vba?

She can indeed, in her current role in the NHS she attends senior management meetings (representing her department even though she is Band 4 Admin role) reporting on the performance of the department. Prior to these meetings she will pull data together and put it into graphs/charts etc to explain trends and make predictions on future forecasts. She is also very experienced in writing reports for "upward" reporting within the organisation, and has attended internal and external training courses which her developed her appreciation of how external factors can affect organisational performance