General and Operations Managers: where your skills can take you
Plan, direct, or coordinate the operations of public or private sector organizations, overseeing multiple departments or locations. Duties and responsibilities include formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning the use of materials and human resources, but are too diverse and general in nature to be classified in any one functional area of management or administration, such as personnel, purchasing, or administrative services. Usually manage through subordinate supervisors. Excludes First-Line Supervisors.
Usual study level (from US data): Bachelor degree (uni — or check Cert/Diploma + experience pathways first)
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Three moves that use what a general and operations manager already knows
Ranked by how much of the job's skills and knowledge carries over. Each one says what the move usually costs in study.
Purchasing Managers
🧰 Your current job already uses managing people, reading people, working in step with other people and managing your own time.
🎓 A degree. More study than your current job. The most common level in the US is a bachelor's degree (53%).
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Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of buyers, purchasing officers, and related workers involved in purchasing materials, products, and services. Includes wholesale or retail trade merchandising managers and procurement managers.
Supply Chain Managers
🧰 Your current job already uses working in step with other people, sound judgement, managing your own time and reading people.
🎓 A degree. More study than your current job. The most common level in the US is a bachelor's degree (76%).
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Direct or coordinate production, purchasing, warehousing, distribution, or financial forecasting services or activities to limit costs and improve accuracy, customer service, or safety. Examine existing procedures or opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs. Direct the movement, storage, or processing of inventory.
Chief Executives
🧰 Your current job already uses sound judgement, working in step with other people, solving difficult problems and managing people.
🎓 A degree. More study than your current job. The most common level in the US is a master's degree or higher (58%).
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Determine and formulate policies and provide overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations within guidelines set up by a board of directors or similar governing body. Plan, direct, or coordinate operational activities at the highest level of management with the help of subordinate executives and staff managers.
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