How much experience is needed to become a project manager?

Alessandra Garattini asked:

Is this a role you can achieve just after many years as a translator or as a business administrator in the translation industry or is this a position you can aspire to also in the first years of your career?

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  • On the career path slide we have the coordinator level role, so if there is a job at an early stage of your career you'd probably start there and we have taken graduates and people of a similar age into these sort of roles.  Can you transfer to the role from being a translator?  Absolutely!  You'd have considerable experience and understanding by then... it sometimes requires a bit of a shift in mindset as you'll have all the sympathy with the translators and people working on the job.  So you'll have to put yourself in the middle a but more and often be a bit tougher with translators than your instinct is telling you to, but otherwise it's absolutely fine.

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  • On the career path slide we have the coordinator level role, so if there is a job at an early stage of your career you'd probably start there and we have taken graduates and people of a similar age into these sort of roles.  Can you transfer to the role from being a translator?  Absolutely!  You'd have considerable experience and understanding by then... it sometimes requires a bit of a shift in mindset as you'll have all the sympathy with the translators and people working on the job.  So you'll have to put yourself in the middle a but more and often be a bit tougher with translators than your instinct is telling you to, but otherwise it's absolutely fine.

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