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Want to change career from teaching to project management

Posted: Dec 5, 2023 11:55 AM

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Rami Kaibni

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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

Shouldn't be that difficult as most soft skills are transferrable. However, I can't advise much as I have no idea about your professional background!

Posted: Dec 5, 2023 1:05 PM

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

As Rami has indicated, a lot will depend on your experiential background. If you were teaching within a company, you might have sufficient business domain expertise which coupled with soft skills might help if you were to manage projects within that company.

However, if you were a school teacher, that might be a lot more challenging unless you chose to manage projects within the school system.

You would also want to take a comprehensive fundamentals course in project management to get the basic of the technical skills and then get hands-on practice with those before trying to land your first role.

Kiron

Posted: Dec 5, 2023 2:22 PM

Markus Kopko AI Enabler for Project & Program Mgmt | Founder PMotion.ai / The PM AI Coach| PMotion.ai Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Hi,

great decision; this PMI website should be somewhat helpful to you:

https://www.pmi.org/learning/publications/...-where-to-start

BR,

Markus

Posted: Dec 8, 2023 4:50 AM

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