I have my associates in business admin, I am working on my bachelors in project management. How should I start getting into the project management field, where should I start and how? Saving Changes...
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Bipin Lekshmanan PMPProject Manager| Wipro TechnologiesEdison, Nj, United States
I believe some previous posts here had touched upon your question, Andr
The simple answer is to begin doing project management. I guess you will have an academic project/internship that can expose you to the project management in real world and how theroy and practice overlaps and differs. Saving Changes...
For someone like yourself, who has already decided that Project Management is the field that they would like to focus on, our company would look at an Entry/Associate-level Project Manager role. Our term for it is an Associate Project & Traffic Manager, but there are many variations. Finding something at the entry-level but specifically within PM would definitely help to not only get your foot in the door with a company, but start you immediately within PM, rather than needing to transfer into the capability after beginning as an Administrative Assistant or something similar. Saving Changes...
Rubin JenEducator/Trainer| Beyond ExecutionTurku, Finland
In larger organizations, where projects are bigger, there are project coordinator-like roles to help support the overall project management. Tasks such as schedule and budget tracking, earned value analysis and resource management are handled by more junior staff. Not glamourous, but a good start for people like yourself who need to build project management-related experience. The other suggestion I would make is to obtain an entry level certification like the CAPM, which is gaining visibility. Saving Changes...
