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Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Showing PRINCE2 on your CV

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And another Project Management Recruitment Ideas for this week, I’ve been looking at what some of our readers have been searching for on The Camel and what might seem like a obvious question is causing confusion for a few. So how do you show PRINCE2 on your CV? Well firstly you need to make sure ...

Reading Between the Lines – Project Management CV

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My initial thought on becoming a Recruitment Consultant specialising in recruiting project professionals was “Surely it can’t be that difficult?” I will be dealing with people who know what their strengths are, professional people who know exactly what skills they have and how to showcase them in their CVs. I will be dealing with people ...

Standing Out in a Project Management Meerkat

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One of the most common questions I still get asked a lot is how can I make my CV stand out when I’m applying for positions? I get asked it so often that we made a presentation and podcast about it – Differentiating Yourself in the Marketplace. You can have a listen to the detailed ...

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

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I think we are all aware of just how difficult the job market is at the moment with all the uncertainties around the financial status of the EU single currency and the associated knock-on in terms of recession in the UK. This in turn is leading to even more limited opportunities with increasing numbers of ...

Q&A Project Management Careers – PMO Career Path

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I’m currently working within a Programme Management Office (PMO) and I’m undecided about where to take my career – stay within PMO or move into a project delivery role. What are the pros and cons of each? For PMO professionals this is a common crossroad in their career development. On the one hand some will ...

Live Q&A – Project Management Careers (December)

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Welcome to our fourth Live Q&A Session here today on the Camel  Tuesday December 11th. We’re here live between 12 noon and 2pm today to answer any questions you might have about careers in project management. To take part just leave a comment – and we’ll answer it for you! Stuck for a question? Here ...

Graduates in Project Management

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Last week I was invited along to the Manchester Metropolitan University‘s Business School to talk to soon-to-be graduating project management students. We’ve done a number of presentations at different universities around the country – and it’s mainly a presentation about getting ready for the realities of life after studies. Part of the presentation can feel ...

It’s harsh but so much is true.. graduate project managers take note

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A new slideshare just out this month… Congratulations Graduate! Eleven Reasons Why I Will Never Hire You. Congratulations Graduate! Eleven Reasons Why I Will Never Hire You. from Mark O’Toole photo credit: x-ray delta one via photopin cc

The Biggest Barrier to Hiring the Right Project Managers?

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Budget? Authorisation? Decent requirements? The biggest barrier to hiring the right project managers for the job is that thing we all hate – the old dated, old-fashioned CV- curriculum vitae – résumé,  call it what you will.Not only is it a difficult document to write, it’s also difficult to determine exactly what it is that ...

Project Management CV Workshops

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With most of our project management careers clinics we conduct either over the phone or in person – there’s always questions about CVs. How can I write it better? How can I write it better than the other guy who’s also going for the same job? Where do I even start??! We’ve put together a ...

Tailoring for Specific Roles

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It’s something we’ve always talked about and now in a survey by the National Careers Service it’s been highlighted as the most common mistake people make with their CVs. In a report out yesterday it highlighted how people don’t spend enough time creating or updating their CV, especially treating their CV as a “shop window” ...

It’s in my cover letter

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Over the years we have been asked many times about the relevance of cover letters in the recruitment process; should I write one? What should it contain? Will it be read? Our view has always been that a cover letter is just part of your marketing collateral and as such it should always be professional ...

Winter PM Webinars – The Project Management CV

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Here’s a winter warmer for all you project management practitioners this December; how about learning more about creating a great project management CV in three one hour webinar sessions. Kicking off on Friday 6th December we’ll be hosting three one hour webinars over three consecutive Fridays in the run up to Christmas. The webinars focus ...

The Penny Drops

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You’ve probably seen the Project Management Career Workshops we launched earlier in the year; we decided to do these based on a number of reasons. The main reason for me is that looking through the thousands of candidates we have registered with us – one thing is clear – project management practitioners are not great ...

Project Management CV Tansformation

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In two weeks time we’ll be hosting the project management CV workshop in London. To find out if this is something that you could benefit from you might be interested in this story of transformation for one project manager…. In the beginning… Over the years I have helped many candidates through our Project Management Career ...

How NOT to differentiate yourself

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So for some time now the noises coming out of the economy have been generally much more positive then we have been used to; unemployment is falling, more jobs are being created and the general consensus is that eventually salaries / day-rates will start to slowly increase. As a professional PPM Practioner in 2014, your ...

The Project Management CV – Grammar and Spelling

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Following on from the post last week about “how NOT to differentiate yourself in the PM marketplace” in this post we are going to look at some common problems with a project management CV when it comes to spelling and grammar. Let’s get to it. First make sure your spell checker is set to English ...

The Project Management CV – Format and Layout

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In last week’s post we looked at the grammar and spelling aspects of the project management CV, this week I’m going to cover the format and ideal layout for a project management CV. CV Length Let’s get something cleared up straightaway – the CV length – it should be two or three pages maximum. It ...

So you’re ready to go contracting?

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After years of being in the career doldrums (minimal promotion; small bonuses; wage increases below inflation…) more and more project management practitioners are turning to freelancing and contracting to start maximising and capitalising on their skills and experiences. We started to see the shift last year – it was highlighted in the Project Management Benchmark ...

Could you imagine interviewing a project manager without a CV in front of you?

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Could you imagine interviewing a project manager without a CV in front of you? The CV is a document that generally shows the chronological experience a person has, everything that they have done in the past.  In most cases when it comes to interviewing project managers you are actually more interested in whether they’re going ...
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