From the category archives:

Career advice

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 [...]

Read more

January: that means it’s appraisal time!

January 1, 2008

It’s the time of year to prepare for annual performance appraisals. I did some research for Projects@Work recently, and wrote an article for them about how project managers could best arm themselves for the dreaded one-to-one with their line manager. I ended up in contact with loads of experts, more than I could fit in [...]

Read more

Networking for networkers

November 29, 2007

Denise Best from Oxford University’s Careers Service has written an interesting article on networking, pitched at IT students, but for beginner networkers like me, I need all the advice I can get – even the basic stuff!

Read more

A question of shopping

November 15, 2007

There were plenty of questions about project management at last week’s womenintechnology event on how to be a successful woman in IT. Mainly people were interested in how to break into project management. I’ve written an article on this topic over at Projects@Work, if you’d like my take on what you need to do to [...]

Read more

Networking (part 1)

November 12, 2007

I’m not that good at networking at conferences and seminars. You know, standing around making small talk with people you are unlikely to meet ever again, on the off-chance that you might have enough in common to sustain a conversation until your glass is empty and you have an excuse to move on. You can’t [...]

Read more

Fancy a job in New Zealand?

October 12, 2006

IBM, EDS, Telecom New Zealand and Synergy are in the UK this week recruiting for ICT specialists including business analysts, project managers, project directors and programme managers. There is more information about their recruitment campaign to poach UK talent on the New Zealand Now site. They also have a list of recruitement agencies, but searching [...]

Read more

Next Entries →