Category: Careers
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Training employees in new techniques – things to consider
Are you implementing new techniques in your business? To ensure your employees change how they work it isn’t as simple as just telling them what to do. Employees are an organisation’s best asset so by investing in the workforce you’re effectively investing in the business. One way to ensure employees remain productive and satisfied in…
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Values create value: Hire culturally aligned IT talent
Sat on a train, I overheard a refreshing view on IT recruitment this week. I was trying not to listen to the conversation the chap opposite was having with his office, but you know how it is!? The man mentioned IT Project Management and was discussing a strategic hire that his firm had to make…
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Engineering project management best practices
If you want to be successful in any engineering project management role it is vital you have a complete understanding of best practices. There are plenty of APM PMQ, PMP and PRINCE2 courses out there so look for qualifications that will help you to gain the skills and understanding you need. Take a look at…
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How to become a financial project manager
Project management is becoming an increasingly popular choice of career path with many individuals and across all fields of business. For some people, it may be a role that they fall into as part of their current employment, but there are many who are choosing to undertake specific training to become professional project managers in…
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Is your project manager over ambitious?
There is nothing wrong with being an ambitious project manager in your career; being an ambitious person with an eye to the future is what can ultimately help you to get where you want to be. This might be a new role within the company you already work for, completing a complex project successfully or…
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Becoming a marketing project manager – what do you need to succeed
Even if you don’t have any project management qualifications, sooner or later if you are a marketer you may need to work as a marketing project manager and hone those all important PM skills. This might be because you get a promotion that takes you into a role where more leadership is required and need…
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Not just anyone can be a professional project manager
It would seem that everyone thinks that they can be a project manager at the moment. However, not everyone has what it takes to be a professional project manager and manage projects effectively – and to be honest, that’s okay. Picture the scene Your online calendar has advised you that you have a meeting shortly…
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Mentoring and project managers – get the best out of a team
Project management isn’t just based on cost and analysis and dealing with stakeholders and your existing team – you also need to integrate new employees, which is where mentoring can help. It is only natural to feel resources are continually stretched in this fast paced, every changing industry sector but allocating additional time to a…
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Transitioning to working from home as a project manager
If you are a project manager working from home how can you know if your team have everything covered. Read on as we offer some helpful tips. More and more companies are looking at ways to be more flexible. For many businesses, that means allowing employees to spend some of their working week in the…
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IT Project Talent shortage. Is PMaaS plugging the gap?
A quarter of digital leaders (25%) believe that their business has an IT Project Management talent shortage. In many ways this is good news, I mean, this suggests that three quarters don’t have a shortage, right?! Actually, it’s even better news than that! The same report back in 2015 suggested 34% of CIOs had an…