Where can I get some good career advice for someone starting out in the business world ?
I've got a business degree and I'm currently working as a business analyst but l'm not sure I see a future career in it.
Any time l've tried getting career advice, l've paid way too much money for a basic questionnaire you'd get in secondary education.
Surely there are people who can give you detailed options in a specific field? I’d pay anything for someone to actually know what they’re talking about 😩

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Well, there are a lot of different career paths from business analyst. What was your initial focus when you pursued your business degree?

Project management route: Project coordinator to project management to program/portfolio management to strategic management

Product management: Business analyst to product manager > product manager senior

Are you into data analytics?

Coding and engineering route

Have you seen any senior type roles that you are interested in? That is kinda where I found project management. Right now I’m doing that for “next step” in my career.

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I originally got into business analysis because I liked the idea of management consulting and learned business analysis is a route to that but now I’m in a tech company and it’s not really the right industry.

I’ve really been considering project management lately, definitely sounds interesting and I think I’d like it but again I’m unsure how to get into that. What would you suggest are the in between steps from business analyst to project coordinator?

Maybe start with being open and objective? If you want advice, you need to to be open to taking it - regardless of what your biased surface evaluation is. Process it, learn from it, apply it. If you act like you have all the answers, then no one will want to help you out so you will always receive generic advice.

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Thank you for your response

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What was the driving force behind a business degree? Was it solely to go into business analysis?

Yeah had some modules on entrepreneurship alright. Not sure I’m there yet though. I feel like I need some experience before I start out on my own. I wouldn’t know what business to start either 😂

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