I'm currently a Client Relations Manager in a role that is more like a product manager role with 2 years experience managing a significantly large client list. I'm not loving being a CRM but it's provided me great experience. Previously I have 10 years of media planning and video production experience. I would like to study for a project manager certification to be able to apply for in-house marketing project manager roles. Any recommendations on part time courses? I'm based in the Bay area.

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I just took the PMP last week. I’m a producer/pm on both agency and in house over 20 years. Studied one manual over the course of a couple of months nights/weekends. Test was shockingly easier than I anticipated. Mostly situational questions that if you have any experience negotiating tricky interpersonal crap (and I imagine you do in your role) you will sail through. It’s just a question of learning the funky formulas for cost/time.

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Thank you! Do you mind if I DM you with additional questions?

You don’t need any courses or certificates to be an in-house PM. You have plenty of experience, just tailor it to PM tasks.

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A lot of times if you have the right skills they will overlook having or not having a PMP. If you are looking for more IT like in house roles I suggest you go after agile certs instead of a PMP.

Unless you're going to go into the adtech/martech (madtech) side if things, you don't really need a cert to do the work. This does not mean any given org or over zealous re recruiter might not make it a req.

There's a lot to be said for training but traing doesn't make you a PM. Take a look at the google PM cert.

Having said that, I think your bigger challenge is going to be making the lateral move with so much other, albeit relevant experience. I'd be hesitant to hire someone for a fairly senior PM role without years' of experience PM'ing, regardless of other experience and all the certs in the world.

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Thanks so much. Excellent food for thought.
I appreciate the time you took to provide your insights.

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