What Can You Expect From Tipoffs Thursday?
March 15, 2010
Project Management Tipoffs can be in your Inbox Thursday, just by signing up for free below. If you’ve not already signed up for Arras People’s acclaimed project management recruitment issues newsletter, Project Management Tipoffs, this is... Read more...
Tipoffs Preview: “How a Dead Language Hurts Your CV”
March 11, 2010
Next Thursday we release the March edition of Project Management Tipoffs, the free newsletter from Arras People. This month’s issue focuses on Career Development. To sign up, go to our Tipoffs registration page on the Arras People website. For a... Read more...
Project Management Recruitment Ideas
March 8, 2010
Each week I’m going to share some short tips and ideas that may help you in your job hunting and help you navigate the project management recruitment path. It’s often the simpliest and most common sense stuff that trips people up when looking... Read more...
APM and the Chartered Status – Latest Update
March 5, 2010
It was good to see the Association for Project Management (APM) today breaking their “dignified silence” regarding the progress of their quest to attain the guardianship of Chartered Status for project professionals in the UK. Andrew Bragg the CEO... Read more...
Putting the Project Shrink on the Couch
March 4, 2010
Arras People had a short Q&A session with the Project Shrink, Bas de Baar, regarding projects and social media, back in January. Bas de Baar is a veteran Software Project Manager based in the Netherlands who has earned international renown for... Read more...
Putting Your CV in a Job Application
March 3, 2010
Companies these days are requiring job candidates to fill out job applications more than ever in an effort to shove past the laissez-faire, emailed CV. If you pay close attention to our blogs and our many outlets of project management media, though,... Read more...
Casting Pods with Lindsay Scott
March 2, 2010
In my worst Chris Moyles impression, download the podcast tomorrow afternoon! Arras People’s own Lindsay Scott will take questions from Parallel Project Training’s Paul Naybour in his highly-regarded Project Management Jobs Podcast tomorrow... Read more...
Wintery Aberdeen CV Workshops Well Received
March 1, 2010
I recently returned from a wintery Aberdeen where my colleague Mick Hides and I attended APM Aberdeen’s 1 day conference entitled ‘Developing your skills for successful projects’. Arras People were asked to present at the event in the form of running... Read more...
The Working Resume™: A New Approach for Job Applications
February 26, 2010
The Working Resume™ has been popularised in recent years thanks to Nick Corcodilos, an American head-hunter and management consultant who runs the popular job search/hiring tips blog “Ask the Headhunter”. In a 2008 newsletter piece entitled... Read more...
Staffing and Competency Levels for the PMO
February 25, 2010
Later this afternoon, the PPSOSIG is hosting their first Local Group for London (PPSOSIG:London), there will be more planned for 2010 but more about that when we blog about it next week. In March the PPSOSIG focus on something which is so new to the world... Read more...