How to become a project manager: a practical route in
A practical guide for adults moving into project management from another field, service leavers included but not only. It covers what the job actually involves day to day, which of your existing skills already count, and how to turn experience you already have into evidence a hiring manager trusts.
It includes a free transferable skills check that runs in your browser. Nothing is saved and no account is needed.
A six step transition route
Understand the work before you buy training, audit the delivery experience you already have, choose an entry route deliberately, build evidence from real work, decide whether a qualification helps you specifically, and then target roles that match the evidence you can show.
Entry routes, without a favourite
Internal moves, project support and coordinator roles, delivery roles in your current sector, and qualification first routes all work for different people. The guide explains the trade offs rather than claiming one is best.
Transferable skills check
Eight statements about coordination, risk, stakeholders, planning and decision making. It shows where your existing experience already maps onto project work and where the gaps are.