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Career Guidance Information for working in Project Management

Skills

A profession in project management requires the following skills:

• Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills
• Logical thinking with creative problem-solving ability
• Great attention to detail
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Understanding of budget control
• The ability to work well with others and lead a team
• A good understanding of business
• Technical skills relevant to the project
• Good IT skills

Hours and environment

Your working hours could vary according to the type of project you are working on. Your typical hours would be 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, although you may need to work longer when deadlines are approaching.

You would usually be office-based, but may spend some of your time attending meeting or visiting contractor and suppliers. If you work on building projects you will visit construction sites on a regular basis. Some project may involve travel and spending time away from home.

Opportunities / Areas of Work

You can work as a project manager in almost any industry as well as engineering and constructions, including IT, sales and marketing, manufacturing and in the public sector. You could also join a firm of project management consultants.

Freelance contracts for each project are common, or you may have a permanent contract with an employer.

Many large corporations such as bank and insurance companies have also started hiring project managers in order to accomplish their work more effectively.

With experience, you could progress into senior management, or become a freelance consultant.

Annual income

Figures are intended as a guideline only. Salaries are dependent on experience, the industry and the size and type of project.

• Earnings are usually between £25,000 and £50,000 a year
• Top salaries can reach £80,000 or more
• Freelance project managers may be paid around £300 to £400 a day
• There may be extra bonuses for meeting deadlines

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Course Content

This practical, interactive event will introduce delegates to a project management framework and associated tools that will allow them to plan, manage, implemet and control projects more effectively. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the learning in groups on a case study scenario and plan how those approaches might be adapted and applied to their own projects in the workplace. This course can be delivered using a set of exemplar project management tools and templates or adapted to use those developed. Specifically for your own organisation.

Delegates will leave the course conifdent in their ability to deliver to scope, managing their stakeholders and team members to ensure success.

· Defining a project.

· Applying practical, flexible project management process.

· Analysing business requirements to define clear project goals, options and recommendations for delivery.

· Engaging project stakeholders and managing expectations.

· Keeping the scope under control.

· Creating realistic project, communication and quality plans for a project.

· Applying robust and interactive risk management process to secure successful.

· Employing project control process to track progress, risk, issues and changes on a project.

· Loading post-implementation reviews.

· Developing project closure reports.

This course is appropriate for delegates who are new to project management or to those who would like to refresh and formalise their approach.

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