Breaking away from core experience?

[mike9009]

I think your CV and covering letter should outline your breadth of experience but say you are looking to apply your knowledge to a new field. (new challenges, new experience, stuck in a rut...use whatever cliché is appropriate.)

Some companies may well want another perspective from someone from a parallel industry - so don't be surprised if you get offers of interview.


I recently moved from approx. 20 years in the automotive investment casting industry (engineering/ operations/ general management/ quality background) - jack of all trades really. I am now in aerospace electronics (Quality management) and skills are surprisingly transferable and I feel a valued member of the management team.

Mike

[130R]

In my experience most people in these sort of roles are not very technical at all. Coordination roles would be something like a systems integration manager (SI) or project manager (PM). SI's tend to be slightly more technical than PM's, but that is really not saying very much! The biggest responsibility for these roles is generally gathering functional/non-functional requirements (with BA), chasing up the architecture/design/technical/infrastructure/test/support teams for sizing (time and costs), planning, monitoring, change control, and reporting progress/risk back to senior management. Being technical would certainly help but most PM's I know aren't at all.

A technical lead means something completely different where I work. That would be something like a lead developer role which would generally be the programmer (for example) with the most technical knowledge/experience. They would report into a manager.

If you want to stay more technical than a PM and input into the design of systems you could also maybe consider solution design / architecture type roles (as long as you don't mind producing lots of documentation).

[130R]

anonymous said:

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I work for an ISP (Development/Security)

[Bullett]

Technical lead means someone with specific in depth knowledge in my field as well.

Something like pre-sales or a solution architect may suit.