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Where would you go if you thought your interview was discriminatory?
Posted on April 13, 2010 | No CommentsTweet I actually picked up this question when reviewing the stats counter for The Camel. It’s always good to see how people came across The Camel and which posts are... -
PMO Competency Levels – The Market View
Posted on March 25, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Last week I presented at the PPSOSIG conference, which was focused on Competence and Competencies, I focused on PMO Competencies in the Marketplace, trying to bring a marketplace view... -
What Can You Expect From Tipoffs Thursday?
Posted on March 15, 2010 | No CommentsTweet If you’ve not already signed up for Arras People‘s acclaimed project management recruitment issues newsletter, Project Management Tipoffs, this is what you’ll be missing out on: Competencies – What... -
Casting Pods with Lindsay Scott
Posted on March 2, 2010 | No CommentsTweet 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... -
Free Live Webinar: A Guide to Managing Projects: Ensuring Project Success
Posted on February 23, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Wednesday March 10, 2010, 12:30PM – 1.30 GMT To register visit: http://www.esi-intl.co.uk/managing_projects_mar10 Free live webinar “A Guide to Managing Projects: Ensuring Project Success!” delivered by project management expert and... -
Graduate Project Management Careers Advice
Posted on February 22, 2010 | 4 CommentsTweet I’m due to graduate in 2010 and I’m worried about the lack of opportunity for recently graduated students in project management. What can I do? As a final year... -
OGC Project Products Round Up
Posted on February 19, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Following on from the BPUG Congress last week, the event which focuses on the OGC suite of programme and project management products, I wanted to share with you some... -
Tipoffs Preview – Fair Warning For Chronological Holes in Your CV
Posted on February 17, 2010 | No CommentsTweet This article gives a preview of what to expect in Thursday’s Project Management Tipoffs, the Project Management Jobs & Issues Newsletter from Arras People. This edition will focus on... -
BPUG Congress Round Up
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Last week, the Third Annual Best Practice User Group Congress (BPUG Congress) took place in London. The BPUG is acually a membership group that are focused on the OGC... -
Career Development: Social Media and the Five Tools for the Professional Job Hunter
Posted on January 29, 2010 | No CommentsTweet “You need to stand out from the crowd if you’re going to find your ideal job”. How many times have you heard this over the last few months? The... -
Book Review: The Program Management Office Advantage
Posted on January 21, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet PMO (Programme Management Office) is still relatively new in the field of programme and project management, a browse through the business books tell us that it’s an area which... -
Twittering about Projects Part II
Posted on January 14, 2010 | 5 CommentsTweet The January 2010 edition of Project Magazine featured a small blurb in the News section about the recent popularity of Twitter under the headline ‘Twitter bug’. Inviting project managers... -
Monday Morning Links – 11th January
Posted on January 11, 2010 | No CommentsTweet A Programme Manager got challenged by a subordinate this week and was subsequently suspended from an ongoing project. That was my immediate reaction to David Stern’s decision to suspend... -
Social Media Survey Needs Your Input
Posted on January 8, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Cheers to colleague Lindsay Scott for pointing this out to me earlier… Surveys have graced the posts here at the Camel for many weeks now, as we are all too... -
Book Review – Public-Sector Project Management #pmot
Posted on December 11, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Author: David Wirick Length: 288 pages Publisher: John Wiley & Sons When I first picked up this book for the review and started reading my first thoughts were not... -
Last Tipoffs Release for 2009 is T-minus 7 Days
Posted on December 10, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Project Management Tipoffs, the renowned project management newsletter from Arras People, will publish its December 2009 edition next Thursday, the final edition for the calendar year. You can look... -
Still think green project management is a fad? #pmot
Posted on November 18, 2009 | No CommentsTweet That’s because you might not be looking at it with your “opportunity eyes” wide open! Last week I went along to present at a North West eGovernment Group (NWeGG)... -
Q&A – Assessment Testing Format To Your Benefit
Posted on November 13, 2009 | No CommentsTweet “I can’t make sense of a company e-mailing me an assessment test to do on my own time. Why wouldn’t they want me to do this in an office... -
The Lowdown on Job Assessment Centres
Posted on November 6, 2009 | No CommentsTweet If you’ve watched ‘The Apprentice’ or entertainment-oriented shows featuring judging panels, you might think you have a passing idea of what an assessment centre is all about. Really, you... -
Happy Project Management Day!
Posted on November 5, 2009 | 3 CommentsTweet Today is the International Project Management Day (IPM Day), the 6th year its been celebrated. Today is the day that all Project Managers should be getting a pat on... -
Monday Morning Links – 2nd November
Posted on November 2, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Oh, Lisa! You and your stories! “Dad, Bart is a vampire.” “Beer kills brain cells.” Now, let’s get back to that… building thingy… where our beds and T.V… is.... -
P3O Manual – First Chapter
Posted on October 27, 2009 | No CommentsTweet If you’ve not had chance yet to buy or read the new P3O manual (Portfolio, Programmes and Project Offices) there are a few resources you might be interested in:... -
Are you guilty of these Project Management CV errors?
Posted on October 23, 2009 | 4 CommentsTweet Following on from our recent newsletter on project management interview and assessments I wanted to take a step back for a minute and answer some of the questions from... -
Monday Morning Links – 19th October
Posted on October 19, 2009 | No CommentsTweet I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you. -Neil Armstrong Our heads are swelling... -
October Edition of Tipoffs Out Today
Posted on October 15, 2009 | No CommentsTweet With the beginning of a new month comes anticipation. No, not of early Christmas creep (much to the consternation of several businesses) – of the new edition of Project... -
How to Win a Tipoffs’ Reviewed Book
Posted on August 26, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet Our monthly book review @ Project Management Tipoffs featured headhunter Tony Haley’s solid, insightful work on avoiding being another mere CV on a hiring manager’s ‘Thanks for applying’ card... -
Ripped From Tipoffs – Q&A Session on Project Management Qualifications
Posted on August 17, 2009 | No CommentsTweet NOTE: This article is reprinted from the July 2009 edition of Project Management Tipoffs from our Q&A section. In this section of Tipoffs, Arras People solicits and answers questions... -
The many types of programme and project office professionals
Posted on August 5, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet Programme Management Offices (and the many variations on a theme) have become much more popular in recent years, in fact I would say it is one of the fasting... -
Current Recruitment Activity in Project Management
Posted on July 27, 2009 | No CommentsTweet NOTE: This article is reprinted from the July 2009 edition of Project Management Tipoffs. Subscribe to PM Tipoffs today by clicking here. Mixed news and fortunes surround recruitment activity in... -
So why do many government IT projects fail?
Posted on June 10, 2009 | 4 CommentsTweet Ian Watmore, Head of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, was before the Public Accounts Committee last month and in a recent article from ComputerWeekly he talked openly...
