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MORPH3US

Astaroth wrote:

What sort of work would you like to be doing? What sort of work experience do you have?

Thank you so much for your help everyone...!!!

At the moment I am stuck in a kind of customer service role which is ok but very menial and administrative.

I have a degree (I know before anyone says...) and feel that at this point in my life I need to climb the ladder quickly while time is on my side. I want to get into management roles but because this is the my first job out of university and is kind of a specialist sector (i.e. not commercial) then the experience I have never seems relevant.

I have recently been on Recruitment & Selection and Appraisal Skills training courses and will soon be line manager to 2 newly recruited staff which WILL be great experience for me getting other management roles, so it shows I am heading in the right direction, but I don't want to stay in the organisation I am in now, they aren't in the real world, I don't particularly like the work and I can't see my next progression opening up for about 3 years....

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Forgot to say, the job I am considering is "mainly site based" but I am assuming that if that regional office is 50 miles away then most of its sites will be within a certain radius of that office, i.e. some nearer to my home than the regional office, but some further on from the regional office, so it will probably average out.

jobbingmusician

MORPH3US wrote:

Forgot to say, the job I am considering is "mainly site based" but I am assuming that if that regional office is 50 miles away then most of its sites will be within a certain radius of that office, i.e. some nearer to my home than the regional office, but some further on from the regional office, so it will probably average out.

In that case, it's worth asking them whether you can consider your home as your main base. IMHO companies tend to be more concerned with keeping to Inland Revenue rules about expenses and mileage than spending an extra few pennies. Think about why it's best for them for you to be based at home (you could do some internet research about where their sites are in your area )

Astaroth

I know about the customer service bit.... I worked in call centres of one sort or another for nearly 9 years (from the age of 15) and only a few years after finishing my degree (worked through uni) did I actually make the break to try to get into a career.

Whilst I understand the desire to get into management you havent really said what sort of management you are interested in.... do you want to be involved in operational management? finance? strategy? marketing? PR? technical? project management?

If you are wanting to make a real step onto the career ladder I think that you should decide the answer to that question before simply applying to anything with management in the title otherwise you can very quickly find yourself pigeon holed into a certain area of management in a similar way as you seem to suggest you have been in customer service.

Once you have decided which route you want to take you can then look either for jobs or opportunities to get the kind of experience you will need. Whilst some generic things will never look bad on your CV like line management experience it wouldnt really help you at all if you wanted to get into strategic management for example.

If you dont know what sort of management you want to be have you considered a management training program where you will do a tour of duty around several different fields to help you decide? You tend to get poor pay and some of the duff jobs to do but it does give you an insight into the type of things that actually go on in project management etc.