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Career advice

What are you worth?

May 5, 2009

Apparently the average salary for a programme manager is £70,196, down from £72,510 this time last year, according to G2, an IT specific recruitment agency. The range of programme manager salaries is actually much narrower than I was expecting, with the average minimum being £65,513 (last year – £66,711) and maximum being £74,990 (last year [...]

W-Tech is tomorrow!

February 2, 2009

It’s W-Tech tomorrow, and it’s not too late to sign up if you want to come along to the evening event. It will be worth it as Lis Astall is on the panel and she’s a really down-to-earth and inspiring speaker. And there will be alcohol! I’ll be stopping by the BCS stand, which will [...]

Looking for a new job?

January 30, 2009

With the economy being as it is, there are plenty of people job hunting at the moment, although project management roles are not being hit as hard as other sectors. Still, if you are in the market for a new role, project-management-jobs.info may help. Lonnie Pacelli has started a site to bring together resources for [...]

New version of SFIA launched

January 26, 2009

Here’s another acronym for you: SFIA. It’s ‘Skills Framework for the Information Age’ and is owned and maintained by The SFIA Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation. Essentially SFIA (say: Sophia) is a list of the skills required of people in IT and related jobs. It’s been around over 20 years in various forms although project management [...]

The state of project management recruitment

December 18, 2008

Vince Hines, Managing Director at Wellingtone has recently written a white paper on the state of the project management recruitment market. This is timely, given that all you read about in the papers is doom and gloom and unemployment. Hines concludes that: Project management vacancies are down – to about 61% of demand from this [...]

W-Tech 2009

November 12, 2008

When I heard from Sarah Chidgey that BCS was organising a careers event for women in IT I was a bit worried it would end up being like the QS Women in Leadership Forum. I registered for one of the QS forums, only to find out that it was going to be like a big [...]

Laura reaches Level A

October 6, 2008

Laura Magahy is Managing Director of MCO Projects Ltd, which she established in 2000 together with a colleague. MCO is a project management, architecture and environmental engineering company, specialising in 4D planning, healthcare and sustainable development in the public and private sectors. She’s also the first woman in Ireland to hold the IPMA Level A [...]

How to be helpful

July 14, 2008

Set your out of office email response if you’re out for a day or longer. Change your voicemail as well, especially if you’re at a crisis point in the project and you know people will be wanting to get hold of you. Know where your project team are, so that when people ask you have [...]

Get visible

March 11, 2008

An extract from my book, Project Management in the Real World, appears this week on PM Hut. It’s about getting recognition for your work as a project manager. Click here to read more.

PRINCE2 is now an IT course!

March 7, 2008

Yes, I am still on holiday. Yes, normal service resumes on Monday. But I had to share this with you: an article from thelondonpaper, which, if you are quick, you can read online before today’s edition is posted. It’s page 30. The article is entitled ‘IT is no longer just for nerds’ and it’s in [...]

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