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Blame the c**ts when you mess up
Get new project and repeat
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Blame the c**ts when you mess up
Get new project and repeat
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jayn200 has more data than eek
Are you sure you want to be a project manager? Why? Because you saw their day rates?
It's going to be really difficult to get that first job without any subject matter expertise. You either need experience as a PM or you need to be a subject matter expert in whatever the project is related to.
Don't do another generic degree. You already have a business degree. If you do a masters it should be something technical but I would think long and hard about whether or not you really want to do that. If you do then you can get a government postgraduate student loan.
If I was in your position and considering retraining into a new area I wouldn't pick PM. There are some other great areas that are growing and pay well. You can work on a MSc in Data Science online from a reputable university. If you move into data science you can sell your business degree as being relevant since you're most likely going to be analysing commercial data.
Imperial college is a very good university and has a new data science/machine learning MSc that is fully online (Just checked and it looks like it was suspended, also looks like they want a quantitative undergraduate degree)
MSc Machine Learning and Data Science (Online) | Study | Imperial College London
University of London has a couple MSc data sciences that are flexible that you should be able to do while working.
Birkbeck - Evening Study I believe
Data Science (MSc) — Birkbeck, University of London
Goldsmith's - Fully Online
Data Science | University of London
Another option would be to go down accounting/finance route. You have a business degree already you can start right away on an accounting qualification, 3 years till your qualified. Sounds like a long time but it'll go by quickly.
There are some other paths to take but I just don't think trying to retrain into a PM when you have no subject matter expertise is the easiest thing to do, not impossible but challenging.
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Over the last couple of years, I've been informally coaching and mentoring people seeking help with IT career development. Data science/analytics is one of the areas I suggest some of them look at and the other is product management. Two novice BAs who worked for me transitioned successfully into product management and with the OP's business degree, that might be an option.
There are also quite a number of organisations who will put people through a boot camp of anywhere from 10-18 weeks to train them to be able to start entry level jobs in product management, data science or coding. Some of these are paid for by the student, some are free. They go on to typically work on 2 year placements with clients and get charged out a relatively low day rate. There are also schemes like this for BA and PM type roles but they have been struggling to place people into roles this year. Schemes vary on the intake criteria for age/previous experience. I've used such a scheme before for BAs and the quality of people has been very good.
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Project Management is dead thanks to agile you now want to be looking at Product Owner/Delivery Manager roles, no real skills needed (perfect for a pimp) but plenty of options out there for basecamp type events to get your foot in the door as a very junior role
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Ahhh the good old days when there was plenty of roles for project managers
Let’s talk about 8 track audio in cars - that was good also
But like above post not relevant these days
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