So I have been offered a job as an assistant service manager – at a hospital so assisting with managing the services, it’s basically an operational role that I have taken.
However, I have been offered a trainee role as a junior data privacy advisor.
I don’t have a tech background and I have been trying to look into it. I can see that Data Consultants earn about 50k a year but not much on Data Privacy. Does anyone know if it’s a good field?
Both jobs are offering 25k.
Thank you.
Edit – Finance Background, accepted the role as an assistant service manager, so will be overseeing the team within the service division at the hospital. Now been offered a Data Privacy Trainee role, to consult businesses on their GDPR and stuff. Again, not too sure if this is a good industry etc. etc.
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Data Privacy : how much do you like telling people what they don’t want to hear and making plans people won’t follow?
It really depends what you’re comparing it to – without more details it’s hard to say. But I’m guessing assistant service manager is a customer facing service role while data privacy is likely to be a desk based internal-facing role – which do you prefer doing?
I work in a massive bank, that has a small industry around data privacy, and the legalities around cross border payments etc.
The job you will be applying for and doing will be utter shit, as it’s entry level. However I would certainly say it’s a domain worth being in, and learning about.
You need to be careful with starting your career in a hospital as the scope of growth is tiny. For comparison in the bank I work in we have hundreds of lawyers working in this area, hundreds of staff ensuring compliance, hundreds of advisory policy roles, hundreds of people working in transformation. It’s a small army. You have a lot of these people earning hundreds of thousands a year within this niche. Those at the top of the food chain could easily demand £250-400k as industry leaders.
I’d say if you want to take it, do it and don’t spend more than a few years in the hospital. Then move into a sector with more scope of growth. Perhaps do professional qualifications. If you haven’t already, consider a legal qualification.