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- Dan Strayer: @Ken: Thanks for commenting! Dare I suggest that you put major (though not necessarily exclusive) stock in those persons who...
- Ken Burkhalter: Inquisitiveness and energy are always at the top of my shopping list. I prefer to get the smartest people I can and will morph the...
- Andreas Splett: @Joel, yes, you’re right. You can teach leadership skill but you’ll barely find it in basic PM training sessions....
- Joel Bancroft-Connors: @Andreas- You make some very good points. Yes, a project manager should take responsibility. In one of my older blogs I...
- Andreas Splett: Ok, let’s face that all of us try to be good project managers. But leadership and passion can’t be taught within a...
- Joel Bancroft-Connors: Interesting insight in this article. I absolutely agree with the skills listed (At least in the high tech US PMs rarely have...
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A Celebration Fit For a Tenth Birthday!
Posted on February 22, 2012 | No CommentsTweet Arras People are excited to announce that they will be celebrating their 10th Birthday throughout the 2012 calendar year. And as Arras People and Arras Services continually strive to... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Recruiting a PM for the First Time
Posted on February 20, 2012 | No CommentsTweet The nature of what we do has changed significantly and we find ourselves needing to recruit a project manager for the first time. What should we be looking for... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Hiring Right First Time
Posted on February 13, 2012 | 2 CommentsTweet As the hiring manager how do I “ensure” that more often than not I get the right person for the role first time of asking? What a great question... -
LinkedIn – How Project People Should be Using It
Posted on June 30, 2011 | 1 CommentTweet A few weeks ago at the Best Practice Showcase in London, Arras People hosted five sessions on “How to Differentiate Yourself in the Project Management Marketplace“. A key statistic... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Interview Tests
Posted on February 7, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Things are hotting up in the project management marketplace and with an increase in more project management jobs being available – we also see the advice requests swing from... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Showing PRINCE2 on your CV
Posted on January 12, 2011 | 1 CommentTweet And another Project Management Recruitment Ideas for this week, I’ve been looking at what some of our readers have been searching for on The Camel and what might seem... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Using a SWOT for Interviews
Posted on January 11, 2011 | No CommentsTweet In this second part of the SWOT Project Management Recruitment Ideas, we’re going to look at the project management interview and how you can prepare for the interview using... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Using SWOT for Job Specs
Posted on January 10, 2011 | No CommentsTweet In this first part of the SWOT Project Management Recruitment Ideas, we’re going to look at the project management job specification first of all and how you can prepare... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – The Telephone Interview
Posted on October 26, 2010 | 3 CommentsTweet In this Project Management Recruitment Ideas, I’m going to respond quickly to a friend on Twitter who posted a tweet “Plenty of websites on the subject but does anyone... -
Project Management Recruitment Idea – Word Cloud Wow!
Posted on October 11, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet In this Project Management Recruitment Ideas, I’m going to cover this keyword issue that always pops up in a CV. We know that people read CVs in a certain... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Will Using LinkedIn Help Me Find a Job?
Posted on September 14, 2010 | No CommentsTweet In this Project Management Recruitment Ideas, we take a look at the social / business networking tool, LinkedIn and ask the question – can it really help you find... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Strength Based Interviews
Posted on September 1, 2010 | No CommentsTweet In this Project Management Recruitment Ideas, I’m going to cover a new kind of interview technique – the strength-based approach. In an article in this month’s Recruiter, the strength... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – How long should a Project Manager CV be?
Posted on August 5, 2010 | No CommentsTweet In this Project Management Recruitment Ideas, the question How Long Should a Project Manager CV be?* might seem a boringly easy question and one that should require no thought... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – All the Gear and No Idea
Posted on July 30, 2010 | No CommentsTweet In this Project Management Recruitment Ideas, All the Gear and No Idea refers to project management training and accreditations that some individuals have but lack the practical application experience. ... -
CV Writing Services & The Professional Job Hunter: An Oxymoron?
Posted on July 27, 2010 | No CommentsTweet In an ongoing tough recruitment market your CV is still the one document that recruiters and employers will use to make those all important decisions about whether your capabilities... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – References
Posted on July 5, 2010 | No CommentsTweet We’ve looked at a number of different areas of the recruitment process so far in this series of Project Management Recruitment Ideas, see the links below. This week I’m... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Embrace (not fear) Application Forms
Posted on June 17, 2010 | No CommentsTweet The last Project Management Recruitment Idea we looked at the interview stage and presentations. This week we focus on the application stage again, specifically the “dreaded” application form. Why... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Presentations
Posted on May 27, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Last week, the Project Management Recruitment Ideas looked at Scenario Questions at the Project Management Interview, this week we focus on those interviews where you are asked to provide... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Scenario Questions at Interviews
Posted on May 21, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Last week, the Project Management Recruitment Ideas looked at Questions at the Interview, this week we focus on a particular type of interview question, the scenario. Scenario questions are... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Questions at Interviews
Posted on May 10, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet A few weeks ago, I kicked off a series of Project Management Recruitment Idea – Job Interview posts, in this post I want to cover questions at project management... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – How Do I Look?
Posted on April 20, 2010 | No CommentsTweet We’ve looked at the application process, the cover note, competency based interviews, brushing up on your project management knowledge, looking after your information and the job interview so far... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – The Job Interview
Posted on April 15, 2010 | No CommentsTweet We’ve looked at the application process, the cover note, competency based interviews, brushing up on your project management knowledge and looking after your information so far in this series... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Personal Info to a Minimum
Posted on April 7, 2010 | 2 CommentsTweet We’ve looked at the application process, the cover note, competency based interviews and brushing up on your project management knowledge so far in this series of Project Management Recruitment... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Brushing Up on Your PM Knowledge
Posted on April 2, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet We’ve looked at the application process, the cover note and competency based interviews so far in this series of Project Management Recruitment Ideas; this week I’m going tap into... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Competency Interviews
Posted on March 23, 2010 | No CommentsTweet We’ve looked at the application process and the cover note so far in this series of Project Management Recruitment Idea, this week I’m going to jump to the interview... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – The Cover Note
Posted on March 16, 2010 | 3 CommentsTweet Last week we looked at the application process in the first Project Management Recruitment Idea and I’m going to stick with the same part of the process because I’m... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – The Application Process
Posted on March 8, 2010 | 2 CommentsTweet 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...
