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Project Management to change career?
Tired of your current industry? However, making the jump would mean that all the skills you honed until now are as relevant as your proficiency in air bass. Fortunately, some of your skills will be transferable, most of your soft skills and some of your hard ones.
One discipline where your experience might make you shine is Project Management, highlighting your past projects and what you learned from them can help you switch industries and/or positions. Your project management experience will keep being relevant.
Let me warn you that switching industries is not an easy endeavor and part of your experience may not be relevant anymore. In this article, we will see how to make your life story and experience as appealing as possible to your future industry.
Project Management is similar in a lot of industries.
- Your goal as a PM will always be to deliver business value to the customer
- Communication, communication, communication, you know that your ability to work with stakeholders is what makes you the perfect candidate for a management position
- Budget, time, scope (the triple constraint), you know how to manage these codependent constraints as well as risks, benefits, and quality among others. Do these constraints exist in your next industry? You can bet…