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

<p>In this week’s pod, we were joined by Magnus Olsen to discuss career challenges, opportunities and trends - a student's perspective.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>The main topics we discussed on the podcast were as follows:</p> <ul> <li>We need to understand what technology will help us with on projects. It will not give us everything!</li> <li>Project Managers need sustainable working conditions in order to deliver more sustainable projects</li> <li>Higher education should aim to develop experiences for students by giving them more practical experiences before they join the workplace</li> <li>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</li> <li>As a project manager, it is better to work in different industries in order to get the best experience to</li> <li>Use toolsets such as LinkedIn to build a network when starting out in the industry</li> <li>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</li> <li>Knowledge isn’t worth anything if you don’t know how to use it. Find your tribe!&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p>Here are links to some of the topics we discussed:&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Magnus Olsen - Political Astuteness in Project Management: <a href="http://kau.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1653426/FULLTEXT01.pdf" target="_blank">http://kau.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1653426/FULLTEXT01.pdf</a></li> </ul> <p>Tune in nex