Did you quit your job to become a Project Manager?
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It have been a while I am trying to find a Project Manager role and have been thinking about quitting my current job. Have you been in such a situation? How did you finally become a Project Manager. Would you like to share your story?
I have played multiple roles in my career - developer, project lead, liaison, defects coordinator. I always wanted to become a Project Manager and finally got PMP certified. Haven't been successful to find a job within my organization mostly due to not enough experience in end-end project management. Saving Changes...
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Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Finding a job can be difficult, drawn out, and emotionally draining. It is significantly easier to look for new (and the right) opportunities while employed. Also, it gives additional confidence, while when unemployed, you may start to feel desperate, and those emotions can sneak out when discussing why you're looking in the interview.
It takes time. We don't know where you are right now in your career; what role, level, geographic placement, etc., but my recommendation is to continue to search while employed.
What was is the motivating factor of this thread? Why do you think it would be easier to quit to find new work? Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Maybe I misinterpreted the question. If I did, apologize.
My goal was to be a project manager, and thus worked toward that goal. I would search for new opportunities while engaged in a current role, then resign once I accepted a new position elsewhere.
Where are you finding the challenges with finding a new opportunity? What is your current role? Saving Changes...
If there are no opportunities to move into a PM role in your current company then leaving is often the only solution. However, leaving without having a firm offer is a leap of faith - if you have sufficient confidence in your abilities and your ability to sell those competencies, have financial reserves to buffer you through your job search time and there are reasonable opportunities out there then that might be viable. Otherwise job search while still employed...
Home is where the heart is. Find your dream and go for it. Leaving a job will be the least of your problems when decades from now you look back and regret not taking the big step. Saving Changes...
Excellent & pragmatic suggestions from Andrew, Kiron & Sante.
If you've enough financial resources, follow your dream and start acting now.
I was in the same situation like you a few years before, wasn't getting a PM role in my organisation due to lack of PM experience. But I got PMP certified, got myself involved in various unassigned PM activities, proved my strengths to the senior managers and finally succeeded in getting a PM role to execute a large transformation project. Saving Changes...
