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by samudojr

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What would be your advice to a project
technical lead with strong desires to be a
project manager?

I am a project technical lead for 4 years
now,in 1 months i will be sitting for a CAPM
certification. I am ready for a PM role but not
sure how to go about it.
1. Its gonna be a tough sell to my management
to promote me - partly because they fear my
current role will not be filled with the same
experience.
2. I am strongly thinking about other
companies, but who will hire an experienced
project technical lead with CAPM as a PM?
3. sit here and hope my management will finally
see i am a PM material.

Whats your advice? what would you recommend?

Thanks,
Sam

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by jamesrl

How do you go about it? Not be asking for a promotion, but by asking for more responsibility and the opprotunity to prove yourself and learn.

Ask for a small project, and some guidance and mentoring. Get a few projects under your belt and you will have some personal growth and insigt into the role.

At that point you can ask whether or not there is a role for you as a PM at that company - if not, you can look around with some experience on your resume.

James

by larryd4

Its a tough market right now, their are a ton of out of work technology people, well at least here in the Metro NY area.

You might want to talk to a headhunter, they may be able to help you with a proper PM resume and get you in to a few interviews.

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