Data analyst resume guide

Great data analyst resumes show business impact: metrics, decisions influenced, and trustworthy analytics work.

What recruiters look for

  • • Clear metrics ownership (retention, conversion, revenue)
  • • Stakeholder collaboration and decision support
  • • Technical evidence (SQL, dashboards, pipelines)
  • • Experimentation and measurement (A/B tests, cohorts)

Bullet examples

Example (impact)

Built funnel and cohort dashboards that identified a 12% drop-off in onboarding; partnered with PMs to ship fixes, improving activation by 3.4%.

Example (efficiency)

Automated weekly KPI reporting with dbt models and Looker, reducing manual reporting time from 4 hours to 30 minutes.