Project Management CV Workshops
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...
View ArticleTailoring for Specific Roles
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...
View ArticleIt’s in my cover letter
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...
View ArticleWinter PM Webinars – The Project Management CV
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...
View ArticleThe Penny Drops
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...
View ArticleProject Management CV Tansformation
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...
View ArticleHow NOT to differentiate yourself
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...
View ArticleThe Project Management CV – Grammar and Spelling
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...
View ArticleThe Project Management CV – Format and Layout
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...
View ArticleSo you’re ready to go contracting?
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...
View ArticleCould you imagine interviewing a project manager without a CV in front of you?
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...
View ArticleOne Page Project Management CV?
I love it when job seekers try something different with their data. CVs or resumes certainly have their place and as much as people hating having to write them I can’t see them ever being replaced (I’d...
View ArticleUsing a Mind Map to Create a PM CV
I was intrigued. I downloaded a free 30 trail of MindGenius’ mind mapping tool just to get a better feel for how mind maps can work on projects. Taking a look through the preset templates I came...
View ArticleStop Using PDF for Project Management CVs
Hopefully this short article will make you think twice when it comes to your project management CV. As you can imagine we see a lot of project management CVs of different shapes and sizes and as a...
View ArticleThe Project Management CV – Keyword Bingo
I think most of us have probably played the game ‘buzzword bingo’ or its more well-known potty mouthed named version (thanks wiki for giving me a polite option). You know the one, make a list of all...
View ArticleFive Project Management CV Myths
The CV is still the most important career tool you have. If you’re currently looking for a new job, you want to make sure it’s working for you in the best way it can. Here are the five biggest myths...
View ArticleProject Management CV 2.0
A while back I decided to have a play about with the format of a project management CV. Infographics were all the rage so I thought how can we create a project management CV which is much more visual,...
View ArticleThe Impact of Your Project Management CV
As another year draws to a close, with many thousands of Project Management practitioners CV’s reviewed; I felt the need to use the Arras People PM Census to check out a nagging feeling of grumpiness....
View ArticleCreating a Killer Project Management CV
If you caught one of our last emails about the impact your project management CV has on the people who read it and hire, you might have been left wondering what you could do to be in the 1% of people...
View ArticleShould I Just Copy and Paste My Project Management CV into Linkedin?
No! Your Linkedin profile should be used as a supplement to your CV and be written in a way that suits the medium which is primarily a social media site. You can still link to your full CV from...
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Project Management Recruitment Idea – Word Cloud Wow!
In this Project Management Recruitment Ideas, I’m going to cover this keyword issue that always pops up in a CV. We know that people read CVs in a certain way – there’s even a phrase coined “the sixty...
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Same Old Story – It’s Time For Change!
Are your credentials "ticking the boxes" on the recruiter's consideration list? If we’ve said it once – we’ve said it a dozen times: At Arras, we have been mad busy with lots of new diverse roles...
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Reading Between the Lines – Project Management CV
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...
View ArticleStanding Out in a Project Management Meerkat
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 –...
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The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
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...
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Graduates in Project Management
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...
View ArticleIt’s harsh but so much is true.. graduate project managers take note
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...
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The Biggest Barrier to Hiring the Right Project Managers?
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,...
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Project Management CV – Writing in the First Person
One of the most common things I see in a project management CV that jumps out straightaway and tells me that the rest of the CV might not be all that great is the use of the first person in the...
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Project Management Keywords in CVs
We all know how ‘modern’ recruitment works in the UK. Keywords. Keywords are king. They have to be. Recruitment systems that hold hundreds and thousands of CVs have to be filtered in some way. It’s...
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