What is the best avenue for starting in project management? I’m a month away from finishing my business (major in marketing) degree (I’m 28, late bloomer 🙄). I have a year of marketing assistant/recruitment assistant and I’ve just taken a job for a digital agency as marketing coordinator a few months ago. The salary is shocking, even for Australia -45k. There are companies that are paying 60k for the type of work I’m doing. My goals are to move into PM. I also plan to move to Canada next year.

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Sorry I can only speak for the US, and maybe Canada. Getting a PMP will for sure get your foot in the door.

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