How do you go about getting your first project manager job

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Typically people with the right personality become accidental PMs and then those of us that enjoy punishing ourselves use that experience to become a PM on purpose 🙂

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I’m both 😭😳

Well, you could try either transferring from within your current company or searching for a more junior position (such as an APM role) and work your way up.

Not sure what your circumstances are so it’s a bit difficult to advise.

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Thank you
I’m coming from a construction inspection background N I own a small event planning business.

for me it went like: devops, then developer, then tech lead then scrum master (diff employer) for a while and was luckily in a team with a delivery manager willing to coach me on project management.
got hired by one of his colleagues (diff company) as a PM a year later, did mostly PMO for diff departments and gradually took on more responsibility over 3 years
now working as a it finance project manager
so it took 3/4 companies to get there in my case over 7 years to make the switch

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