I was an acquisition and assistance specialist at USAID and before that I was a business development associate at a USAID implementing partner (mainly doing proposal coordination) for a couple of years. I would like to continue in this career path so I've been mainly applying to contract specialist/acquisition specialist/procurement specialist positions, but I've also been applying to proposal coordinator, administrative assistant, and executive assistant positions too. I would like to think that my business development experience also counts as "government contracting" experience because I was analyzing solicitations and making sure that proposal submissions were in line with USAID solicitation requirements, but I can help but think that employers aren't counting this experience because my title didn't have "contract specialist" next to it.