Breaking into Project Management

[MaryPoppins]

No I have NO idea what you mean. You asked what PMO is but say you know the answer. Are you just checking we all know? That's very kind of you.

What are you technically skilled in, to what level and for how much experience do you have? In addition what PM, leadership skills do you offer.

I get the impression you're a kid. At least you appear to be a native English speaker, that's a better start than some.

Ouch..!

[peterc2609]

No I have NO idea what you mean. You asked what PMO is but say you know the answer. Are you just checking we all know? That's very kind of you.

What are you technically skilled in, to what level and how much experience do you have? In addition what PM, leadership skills do you offer.

I get the impression you're a kid. At least you appear to be a native English speaker, that's a better start than some.

Some very touchy people on here...

No I'm not a kid, yes I'm a native english speaker.

And are you interviewing me online for a position I don't know about? If not, then please don't patronise me and start asking questions like you have.

I asked for some info, which other people gave. If you have nothing constructive to say, then please keep it to yourself.

Cheers.

[Olly]

And are you interviewing me online for a position I don't know about? If not, then please don't patronise me and start asking questions like you have.

No I'm actually being constructive rather than taking the piss.

It will allow myself and the forum to gauge whether you have a hope in hells chance of even landing something in the right ball park.

Actually sod it, I'm not interested. You can use Google. If you're serious then do what you need to do and grow a pair.

I personally enjoy a bit of banter with the flipless and for those that make the effort I'll try to as well.

[norrahe]

Olly, I'd reserve that tone for posting in general.

[Olly]

Ok apologies all..bad mood
to the OP...

Please do plenty of research before just posting open questions...there is enough info out there. If you don't do this then some people (me) may feel you're not cut out for your intentions and find it hard to bite their tongue.

[MaryPoppins]

I think the OP was hoping for some advice from "real people", rather than google, which is fair enough?

It's a hard time to be asking for advice on how to get a gig I think, OP.

Good luck though.

[northernladuk]

For a few weeks, I thought I had my ideal break... back into an old client as a kind of Junior Tech Project Manager, but it looks like its fell through, so as of Friday I'm on the bench.

Any tips on how to break in to PM'ing? I've got my PRINCE2, but woundering how to get the experience... its one of those viscious circles... any ideas?

Thanks

I did the same when I was made redundant. Years of experience as a manager of various support/service teams within a large corporate outsourcer but nothing I though would fit anything in contracting world so tried PM and got absolutely nowhere.

I did a bit of a U-turn and started looking at workstream leads/tech deployment kind of thing. The same as I was doing before really. Needs a mix of team mgt, project mgt and tech knowledge and was surprised to find quite a few of these roles. Did a couple of them until I got a workstream that was big enough to be a project in itself, own budget and so on just wasn't classed as such where I was. Didn't matter to me, got the experience and then stuck it on my CV.

Have a look for more roles like that so you are delivering to a project, it gets you experience in an environment even if it is not at the coal face. Next step up from there with a lot of look for very creative CV would be a PM.

[malvolio]

Dunno about PMing as a career step, probably a bad idea right now for the reasons given. Lots of people looking for Project Planners though... just not in IT. So look a little wider, it's not all about tin and wires.

[MrHelpful]

Agree with a lot of posts on here. I am an experienced PM - well 5+ years and have to say the market is saturated at the moment and competition is strife! I would try if I was you not be a generic PM and if in a niche industry that will help differentiate you from the others. I have been looking for 2mnths now - so I am just forwarning you!

[TykeMerc]

As others have said the PM market is somewhat flooded at the present time with plenty of people who're actually experienced (5-10+ years) on the bench.

Prince2 is a handy box to tick, but it sure as hell doesn't teach you how to manage projects, most clients realised that a while back.

Budgets are tight so new projects aren't being kicked off, no new projects = no demand for Project Managers. Existing projects and BAU operations need far more tech staff than Project Managers so the market won't pick up until after the Election and probably won't then since everyone knows that austerity measures are on the cards.