The Covid pandemic has changed business multiple times over, and we will likely feel the impact for some time to come. We’re on the road to recovery in every sense of the word, but with hope comes opportunity and the chance to revisit your goals in project management. With recruiters looking for a range of […]
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Expected to deliver more with less, responsible for multiple change initiatives simultaneously, internal and external pressures – this is what the world of the project or programme manager(PPM) looks like these days. But it’s not all bleak as there are also increasing opportunities out there. AXELOS has recently published its latest PPM Benchmarking Report 2019
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Because the terms “project” and “project manager” are open to so many different interpretations, employers are naturally wary of candidates who confidently call themselves project managers, while being unable to produce any evidence that they are indeed project professionals. This is why most project organisations, businesses and public sector programmes, specify project qualifications as a
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The internet has been brilliant for recruitment. As an employer, you can now Access Talent from wider pools than ever and through social media practically pre-interview prospective colleagues before they even set foot through your door. Despite this, a friend just complained about feeling uninspired by respondents to a recent job advert. She showed me
Where do your new IT hires come from? Other IT companies? How’s that working out? If you’re finding the traditional talent pools are drying up, you are not alone. In the UK, British Gas hired an ex-NASA data scientist to progress its Hive smart heating project, who said IT recruitment wasn’t rocket science?! In the
Re-thinking IT recruitment is not rocket science. Well, not always! Read More »
What did you make of the deliberate spelling mistake in the header? Hopefully, it got your attention on a page full of search engine results or list of blogs fighting for your attention. Did you notice it? I just did a little experiment by presenting 10 people in the office with five genuine job ads.
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In today’s candidate led IT recruitment market, hiring can be more expensive and time-consuming than ever. It is, therefore, in your best interests to balance the recruiting reality in your favour by optimising your practices so that they deliver not just great talent but a real chance of retaining that talent once hired. There is
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“You’re so passionate about Project Management, you should write a blog about it,” one of my colleagues said a couple of years back. That’s how it started. I wrote one blog and then, having found it quite enjoyable, I wrote a second and then a third. I got some nice feedback, got shared, had a
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If you’re looking on eBay or searching on Google, you make your search criteria as specific as possible so you don’t waste time with results that don’t fit. It’s the same with a job search. Either consciously or subconsciously the criteria that fits with a candidate’s search is what stands out when they scour the
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When your firm loses a great team member, they take with them a business value that cannot be easily replaced. First, there’s the rich knowledge that they have of your organisation, its products, culture, systems and processes. They may have fostered relationships with your clients and internally with colleagues over many years and they have
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