Starting a project management career: Free ebook
Want to get into project management? Learn how to start your career in project management.
Project management is a popular profession for people from all backgrounds, regardless of education or experience. It is a rewarding, challenging career with a high level of job satisfaction and a good salary. We often get enquiries from people wanting to know whether a project management course will help get them a job. So we decided to create this incredibly useful ebook. Read on to discover how to kick-start an exciting career in the world of project management!
Introduction
With the relationship between training courses and students’ career advancement in mind, we have produced a guide to getting ahead in the project management sector. How might professional certification aid your project management career? What do employers often look for when hiring a project manager? What kind of free project management careers advice is available to unemployed professionals with an interest in the industry? Can project support be considered as a career in itself? This ebook will answer all of these burning questions, and more.
Whether you are taking tentative first steps into the industry, looking for the next challenge in an established project management career, or actively seeking an employment opportunity that involves working on projects, read on to help improve your chance of success!
What is a project manager?
Projects happen in all industries
Project managers are found amongst all industries, and they are the people responsible for planning and delivering a project on time and within budget. They need to predict what is coming next and understand the value of what they are doing, whilst knowing when to focus on each.
As they will be working within a team, project managers will certainly need ‘soft skills’ to communicate and build trust with their colleagues and stakeholders. Other skills commonly associated with project managers include planning, budgeting, risk analysis and reporting.
Growing profession
Project management is a popular career choice, and it is becoming ever more important due to the pressures faced by organizations in an increasingly globalized world.
Projects enable organizations to change and succeed in the face of these pressures, and you will find opportunities to be a project manager in every sector worldwide. It’s a fast growing profession too.
According to the American-based Project Management Institute (PMI) between 2017 and 2017, over 20 million new project management roles will be created globally across seven project-intensive industries [1]. That means there are huge opportunities for people with the right skills to move into project management.
