So my background is mostly pharma/biotech, doing lab work, but in recent years, doing more project management type of things within the team, so I got my PMP. I feel like project management actually fits me more than the lab work.
I was laid off few months ago, and it’s been a tough market, especially in pharma/biotech with all the layoffs. In the mean time, my family decided to move back to our home town, where there’s pretty much no pharma/biotech jobs available, but there’re many PM jobs in other sectors especially in health care and construction, and there aren’t that many qualified people in the area, so the chance of getting hired is higher than where I am right now.
Our planned move is next summer, so I only have less than a year to go. Instead of trying to find a pharma/biotech jobs now, I would like to pivot and put my time into getting more PM experience. At this point, pay doesn’t matter (at least I’ll be getting an income!), temp/permanent/contract doesn’t matter (since we’ll be moving next year anyways).
How do you think I can get some experience? Just keep applying, and maybe go through a temp agency? Is there any temp agency or organization focused on PMs (other than PMI website)?
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