| I'll focus on your question of how to move into a management. Or at least, my perspective. To get into management, you generally need experience in management. I know that sounds silly but it's true. If I'm interviewing for a management position and I have two candidates, one who has experience and one who doesn't, I'll take the person with experience. So your question becomes how do I get the experience. I would start with finding a work place that values the concept of promoting from within. From there you need to advertise your intentions of wanting to move into a leadership role, without being annoying. You need to socialize and relationship build. Gently broadcast your intentions. You need to be able to tell people why you want this role. It needs to be clear reason. This is more or less your sales pitch. If you do these things listen to people's feedback. It should be enthusiastic and positive. If it's not it means that people don't see your potential yet. Figure out why. This is your feedback loop. Take training, work on your presentation skills. Find another mentor. Keep building your network. Ask your manager if you can take over a meeting or take over a small responsibility for them. Gently reshape your role into a lead role. Do this until you get some positive feedback. From there start to interview. Your first couple of interviews are likely going to be terrible. Don't lose heart. Ideally these are internal interviews. If you don't get the job reach out to the hiring manager to get open and honest feedback. Keep interviewing and keep working on all of the above. With a little luck one of your connections will pay off and someone will take a chance. |