2nd innings! I am ready for the change as Digital Marketer.

Harika
Harika
Sep 2, 2018 · 3 min read

“Change is hard at first, Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end”.

- Robin Sharma

I like sports. I am going to compare in my blog why I have decided to take the Digital Marketing Nanodegree? with a sport called “Cricket” which is widely played by more than 125 countries recognized by International cricket council.

In the 1st innings, I was a working woman as product coordinator in an IT company which provides educational software for the schools. After marriage, I moved to new country with my husband where I had a first ball of bouncer with cultural shock but gradually I got used to the new culture and environment. I took a long break from work to start my family and take care of my child. Now, I decided to rejoin the work and observed that job market in my living country has less openings for my previous work experience therefore I started to focus on upskilling with latest digital skills which will provide me with new opportunities.

Open Mindset for change

In the 2nd innings, like a ball of Yorker, my biggest and premier challenge is to balance family life, time and learn new skills to prepare myself for the demanding job market. Second challenge is know-how on the latest trends and technologies in the market. Third challenge is to keep myself motivated for career change and restart.

There were many questions running in mind what, where, when and how to start? Like a third umpire decision to declare a batsman out or not-out in cricket.

To overcome the challenges and questions I started searching on internet, discussed with friends and family about the demanding courses in the job market. Fortunately, I came to know about Udacity website which provides online courses with learn at your pace concept, hands on experience with live projects, course curriculum defined in collaboration with top notch companies like Google , Facebook etc… and certification (Nanodegree) which is recognized by reputed companies.

Based on my research, in today’s digital era social media or online marketing is a key for any business and these skills are in demand by the companies which fascinated me to join Digital Marketing Nanodegree program by Udacity. Every lesson in the program is very interesting, keeps me motivated to learn many new concepts from the very basics of marketing fundamentals to advanced topics with live projects working on well know social media platforms.

Last but not least, in the 2nd innings Digital Marketing Nanodegree program is transforming me to define my new career path which is like sending a cricket ball to boundaries.

New Career path as Digital Marketer

Thank you for reading and your time!

Harika

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Learning Digital Marketing for career change

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