Lindsay Scott

Director of Arras People, the programme and project management recruitment specialists. Also blogging at How to Manage a Camel. Lindsay has also launched The PMO Conference

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Arras People Launch Ninth Project Management Census

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Now in its ninth year, Arras People’s Project Management Benchmark Report has served as the UK’s lone official declaration of the status of project management in the UK. The latest project management census which forms the basis for each new benchmark report is now open for anyone with an interest in project management to take […]

Project Management Career Support

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Arras People, the UK’s programme and project management recruitment and careers specialist, have just launched new career focused workshops for project managers. The workshops have been created to provide practical advice and support when it comes to job focused career development. Arras People’s Lindsay Scott; Over the last 11 years we’ve found that project practitioners […]

Project Management Flashblog

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Over 70 project management bloggers came together on Wednesday 25th September at 1am GMT for the first ever Project Management Flashblog. The #pmflashblog was the brain child of Shim Marom, a project management blogger from Australia. The idea of the #pmflashblog is to have a large number of bloggers post an article, in their respective […]

New Book Focuses on the People in Project Management

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Gower Publishing have launched their latest Handbook in the series – The Handbook of People in Project Management. With three years in the making, over 60 chapters and 44 individual contributors, the new handbook is an eclectic mix which offers something new to the project practitioner. The handbook’s sections include; Management and Organisation People In […]

Recruitment Challenges in Project Management

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Earlier this year Arras People released their annual project management benchmark report for the UK project management market. Following on from the 2013 Project Management Benchmark Report (PMBR) they are now conducting a short survey to look in more detail at some of the recruitment challenges that organisations face when selecting Project Management practitioners for […]

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Live Twitter PM Careers Chat from PMI

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The Project Management Institute are hosting their first live project management careers and job chat via Twitter on Monday 5th August 2.30pm BST. PM Network magazine’s project management career columnist, and director of program and project management recruitment at Arras People in London, England — will host a Twitter tweet chat on 5 August 2013 […]

PMO Flashmob

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There’s a new type of networking in town for people who work within PMOs – the PMO Flashmob. PMO flashmob is a monthly social meetup with the serious subject of PMOs at its heart. Each month in a Central London location the mob gets together for a drink and a nibble and talk about what’s […]

Project Management Census 2013

Census of the UK Project Management Market 2012-2013

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Project management census aims to take the pulse of the current UK project management marketplace by soliciting the views of over 2000 practitioners. Now in its eighth year the census data is used to create the Project Management Benchmark Report which becomes available in February 2013. The Benchmark Report serves as the UK’s lone official […]

iPad up for grabs

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Arras People’s year long 10th birthday celebrations comes to an end this month. With an iPad on offer as this month’s prize, project practitioners just need to complete a two minute “interesting” survey to be in with a chance of winning. To take part just complete the survey The ‘ten in ten’ celebrations (10 surveys […]

Free Project Management Foundation & Practitioner Course

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Arras People, the project management recruitment business, has been celebrating 10 years of business throughout 2012 with ten prizes for ten months. With prizes already handed out worth thousands of pounds, the competition will be coming to an end in December.The competition page is available for anyone to take part. This month, November, sees the […]