S5E117: Career challenges, opportunities and trends - a student's perspective with Magnus Olsen

In this week’s pod, we were joined by Magnus Olsen to discuss career challenges, opportunities and trends - a student's perspective.

Magnus has a background in the science of learning, having been a headmaster for a decade, managing organisations with complex stakeholder context. He has five years’ experience as a strategy advisor in public management and is now an entrepreneur engaged in multiple start-ups including own his consultancy firm.

Magnus has always been a student but for the last two years he been taking a life changing Master of Science in Project Management at Karlstad Business School in Sweden.

The main topics we discussed on the podcast were as follows:

• We need to understand what technology will help us with on projects. It will not give us everything!
• Project Managers need sustainable working conditions in order to deliver more sustainable projects
• Higher education should aim to develop experiences for students by giving them more practical experiences before they join the workplace
• There may be trend towards universities offering shorter degrees and people re-training later in their careers to learn new skills to adapt to the ever changing workplace
• As a project manager, it is better to work in different industries in order to get the best experience to
• Use toolsets such as LinkedIn to build a network when starting out in the industry
• Start-ups are often the best companies to gain experience as a project manager as they may focus too much on the product rather than the business
• Knowledge isn’t worth anything if you don’t know how to use it. Find your tribe! 

Here are links to some of the topics we discussed: 

• Magnus Olsen - Political Astuteness in Project Management: http://kau.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1653426/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Tune in next time when we’re re-joined by Dave Snowden to talk about the hexi approach and what it means to Cynefin Framework.

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