dreww
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 Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject: Advice on deciding when to switch industries |
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Hello,
I am seeking advice regarding my current situation with respect to my future plans. I currently work for a public policy research firm, working on education and health research projects. I graduated with a B.A. in Economics a little over a year ago. Coming out of school, I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do, but decided to give the field of research a shot. After working here for a year and getting a sense of potential career paths, I'm pretty certain that public policy research isn't for me. I would like to switch fields or industries and begin working in finance (another field I considered out of college).
Here's where the issue comes in. I would like to apply to business schools in roughly a year or two. In my current position, I have worked hard to gain an unusual level of responsibility for someone in my position. I will soon become a project manager, managing a handful of research analysts. My fear is that if I switch careers at this point, my business school application will be much less strong for two reasons: that the experience I gain at my next job will be much less impressive (I will have to start from the bottom, so to speak), and that I will be unable to show on my application that I have clear goals, objectives and a career path.
So what should I do? Should I continue in my current position until I decide to go back to school, knowing that I ultimately want to move away from the field of public policy research? Or should I switch jobs and gain experience in the field of finance knowing that it may weaken my business school application?
Thank you very much in advance! |
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