What ’ s You r S p eci a lt y ? CHARTING A CAREER PATH IN COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT By D ean Ja ckson, CCAM-HR
CACM HAS TAKEN A LEADING ROLE in providing education and promoting specialties, which can result in different career path choices for managers. Community management is not a one-size-fits-all career – while there are many similarities between each specialty, there are areas where the specialties, the required skills and education may differ. For many managers, it all starts with Portfolio Management, a specialty which many choose to embrace and turn into their career. If you are successful at Portfolio management with its sometimes frenetic pace and myriad of challenges, chances are you can do anything. Management specialties such as High Rise, Large Scale, New Development, Commercial and Industrial CID, and Age-Restricted Active Adult offer a variety of opportunities to succeed in the industry and require a variety of skills. Here’s what some managers say about their chosen specialties and why they chose them.
Portfolio Management AL DE CAMARA, CCAM-PM, CAMEx | DE CAMARA MANAGEMENT, INC.
Portfolio managers are exposed to a wide variety of challenges that make this area continually interesting and oftentimes exciting. Much of the enjoyment we derive comes from being observant and realizing the vast humor that can be found in our industry. One board president asked, “Do we have to have an annual meeting every year?” In an attempt to control owners at a meeting, the president passed around a hair brush and said, “This is a microphone and no one may speak without the brush.” Talk about hair on your tongue. An owner reported, “There is someone after me. I can’t tell the police because they are in on it. The FBI is in on it too.” An owner wanted to change their windows and asked for an Agricultural Application. An emergency call came in at 3:00 a.m. The owner reported they couldn’t sleep Continued on page 10
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Vision Spring/Summer 2018 | www.cacm.org
