Special Assistant Career Path
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Based on 18 Jobtrees users who were a Special Assistant in their career, on average, they have 4.85 years of experience and 2 jobs prior to this one. They spend 3.1 years on average in this job building experience and earn $62K per year before moving on.
0% of Jobtrees users moved to another job with this same title in their next career step. The most common career steps after Special Assistant are Communications Director, Civil Engineer and Chief Executive Officer.
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How can I become a
The most common career steps to get to Special Assistant are Transportation Engineer, Operations Coordinator and Research Assistant based on actual career paths reported to Jobtrees.
Transportation Engineer, the most common step before Special Assistant, 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 Special Assistant.
While Transportation Engineer is the most common, there is no specific role leading to Special Assistant that is an overwhelmingly common path. This shows there are many potential paths to becoming a Special Assistant so focusing on translatable skills is likely more important than a specific role.
While Transportation Engineer isn't from the same job family as Special Assistant, Law Enforcement, it can help to have direct experience in this discipline shown by Operations Coordinator also being a common career path to Special Assistant.
What should I know about the career path
Special Assistant is part of the Law Enforcement 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 Special Assistant.