One Day in Aberdeen: Preview of the CV Workshop
February 12, 2010
Arras People have long been proponents of careers clinics, support services, and careers advice web pages designed to keep job candidates abreast of the things that can help them search and secure jobs in the most effective ways possible. In addition,... Read more...
Commercial Awareness for Project Managers #pmot
November 30, 2009
How many of us would take on the management of an IT project without a basic understanding of technology? I am guessing not many, yet we are quite happy to take responsibility for often quite commercially complex projects without even a basic awareness... Read more...
Applications – and what they tell us about you
November 4, 2009
Frustrated by the job application faux pas, we at Arras People think you need some enlightenment on what we expect of job seekers. (Image courtesy Zach Klein @ Flickr) Everyone recognizes that we are currently experiencing a tough market. Feedback from... Read more...
Registrations – How Was The Third Quarter?
October 22, 2009
Arras People operates a managed database where each applicant is examined and considered. The collation of this information (started in January 2009) provides an insight into registration trends and enables us to design our response. The number of registrations... Read more...
Update on Project Management Recruitment Market Watch
September 21, 2009
We keep hearing of the ‘greenshoots’ appearing within the economy and whilst we have seen flurries of activity throughout the last 12 months we have not seen a significant increase in recruitment activity. Confidence is increasing within the client... Read more...
Professional Project Management and Higher Education
June 26, 2009
Projects and project management are now seen as a destination of choice for aspiring professionals (obviously popularised on shows like the Apprentice). The higher education sector has responded with an array of courses such that it seems most institutions... Read more...
Maximising your ‘shop window’
May 21, 2009
We are spending a lot of time talking to people about their CVs at the moment and as a consequence we are fine tuning our advice. My favourite at the moment focuses on how we tend to view CVs. If you are like me, when I open a word document I tend to... Read more...
A Word About Graded Registration
April 29, 2009
Anyone visiting the registration pages of Arras People in the last few months would have noticed a distinct change in our approach. The industry standard model for anyone wishing to join a recruitment database is to upload their details and wait for the... Read more...
The end of the IT Project Manager is Nigh!!!!
March 6, 2009
..unless you change, This was the startling revelation given by Mike Watson and Steve Hill during their presentation of Project Success Planning at the latest event held by the North West Branch of the APM. In a world characterised by success, it is a... Read more...
International Project Management Day – PMI UK Chapter
November 20, 2008
The International Project Management Day was my first interaction with the PMI and the event felt like professionals sharing ideas rather than anyone trying to hard sell a product/service. The layout of the room and the stage created a professional... Read more...