What to include (in this order)
- 1
Header
Name, phone, email, city, LinkedIn, and a portfolio or GitHub link.
- 2
Summary
Your experience level, tools, and the domain you know — e-commerce, finance, healthcare.
- 3
Skills
SQL, Excel (pivot tables, lookups), Power BI/Tableau, Python (pandas), statistics.
- 4
Experience
Role, company, dates, and analysis-to-impact bullets.
- 5
Projects
Two to three portfolio projects with real datasets and clear insights.
- 6
Education & certifications
Degree, plus Google Data Analytics, Microsoft PL-300, or similar.
Sample bullet points
- Built a Power BI sales dashboard for 40 stores that cut weekly reporting from 6 hours to 30 minutes.
- Wrote SQL queries to identify a 12% drop-off at checkout, leading to a UX fix that recovered ₹8 lakh in monthly sales.
- Analysed 2 years of customer data in Python to segment buyers, improving email campaign conversion by 18%.
- Automated a monthly Excel report with Power Query, eliminating manual copy-paste errors.
Tips that make a difference
- Lead bullets with the insight or decision, then the tools used.
- Link to a dashboard or notebook recruiters can open.
- Use plain-text skill names so ATS matches 'SQL' and 'Power BI' exactly.
- Freshers: use public datasets (Kaggle, data.gov.in) for portfolio projects.
Skills you can list
SahiResume
Let AI write it. You pick the look.
No login · from ₹10 · real PDF preview before you pay
Build this resumeFrequently asked questions
Can a fresher get a data analyst job without experience?+
Yes — strong portfolio projects with real datasets and clear business insights can substitute for experience at entry level.
Which skills matter most on a data analyst resume?+
SQL and Excel come first for most roles in India, then a BI tool like Power BI or Tableau, then Python.
Should I include certifications?+
Yes if they're relevant and recent, such as Google Data Analytics or Microsoft PL-300 — but projects carry more weight.