ADVICE WANTED. I’m a Program Analyst on my first government contract. I work with SharePoint and Power Automate and been on the contract for about a year. There’s been high turnover and I don’t know if I should start looking for jobs. I want to get into tech, finance, or obtain more program management skills. Pretty much open to anything being a young professional. Any advice? Thanks in advance.

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See if your firm will pay for any certifications, collect as many as you can, and join a better firm with clear promotion path

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PMP is pretty standard for project /program management. Also look at scrum agile and SAFe certs

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Are you in the program management space already or tied to the software program/application side ?

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I’m in PMO side and cross functional so help teams automate processes with the above technologies.

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