Professional Speaker Career Path
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Based on 10 Jobtrees users who were a Professional Speaker in their career, on average, they have 1.63 years of experience and 3 jobs prior to this one. They spend 10.7 years on average in this job building experience and earn $60K per year before moving on.
30% of Jobtrees users moved to another job with this same title in their next career step. The most common career steps after Professional Speaker are Business Owner, Keynote Speaker and Life Coach. While Business Owner isn't from the Public Relations job family, there are common paths within the same discipline as Professional Speaker shown by Keynote Speaker also being a next career step Jobtrees users are taking.
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How can I become a
The most common career steps to get to Professional Speaker are Executive Board Member, Founder and Medical Doctor based on actual career paths reported to Jobtrees.
Executive Board Member, the most common step before Professional Speaker, is a more senior role which is common to see in career paths. This is a natural and common career progression as titles aren't synonymous across companies so a higher title doesn't always mean higher pay and larger scope. Focus more on the scope of the next role than title progression in building a path to Professional Speaker.
While Executive Board Member is the most common, there is no specific role leading to Professional Speaker that is an overwhelmingly common path. This shows there are many potential paths to becoming a Professional Speaker so focusing on translatable skills is likely more important than a specific role.
While Executive Board Member isn't from the same job family as Professional Speaker, Public Relations, it can help to have direct experience in this discipline shown by Founder also being a common career path to Professional Speaker.
What should I know about the career path
Professional Speaker is a role that people spend a significant amount of time in before moving on. In roles like this that are more senior, that is common as there is room and usually an expectation to grow within the role.
Professional Speaker is part of the Public Relations job family which has a variety of unique role within that discipline. Choosing to pursue a role within this family likely will mean that you will need to look outside of your discipline to find new roles and so should focus on related skills as part of that search.
Our data is limited for this role so it's possible there are other common career paths not highlighted here for Professional Speaker.