Resume keywordsData Analyst
Data Analyst resume keywords
Recruiters look for a question you answered, the method you used and what the business did with it.
Skills to show
Use the exact phrase where it is true, inside a bullet and not only in a list.
- data analysis
- data visualization
- A/B testing
- statistics
- ETL
- dashboarding
- stakeholder management
- forecasting
Tools and software
- SQL
- Python
- Excel
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Looker
- pandas
- dbt
Verbs that fit data analyst work
- analyzed
- forecasted
- automated
- identified
- built
- presented
Example bullets
The numbers are examples. Replace them with your own and round honestly.
- Wrote SQL models that cut the weekly sales report from 3 hours to 20 minutes.
- Analyzed 14 months of churn data and found that 62% of cancellations came in the first 30 days, which led to a new onboarding email series.
- Built a Tableau dashboard used by 25 managers to track pipeline against forecast.
Mistakes to avoid
- Listing tools without a single decision they informed.
- Writing "data-driven" as a trait. Show one decision instead.