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Q&A Project Management Careers – Competency Based Interview
Posted on February 27, 2012 | 1 CommentTweet I have an interview coming up for a project manager position and I’ve been informed that it will be competency based, how can I prepare for this? Competency based... -
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... -
Why is Interview Feedback SO Hard?
Posted on February 10, 2012 | 1 CommentTweet I’m currently writing a chapter on project management recruitment for a book which will be published in 2013 on the people side of project management. One of the areas... -
Q&A Project Management Careers – Project Management Interview
Posted on November 15, 2011 | No CommentsTweet I’ve been shortlisted for my first ever interview for a project management post (I got my current job through the company graduate scheme). What can I expect? Job interviews... -
Tipoffs podcast on workplace out Thursday
Posted on April 19, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Project Management Tipoffs will have their April edition out this Thursday, with the podcast version’s 14th edition available that very morning. This free podcast version of the acclaimed newsletter... -
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 – 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 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... -
Things to Know About the Values Based Interview
Posted on August 10, 2010 | 3 CommentsTweet Time for some values based interview advice, from straight out of our collection of careers-based advice on the Arras People website… Sit down for but a moment and take... -
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... -
Arras + DWP + Technical Support Ensures Results!
Posted on April 27, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Arras People has been providing the Job Search Support Service in partnership with the Job Centre Plus for 12 months now. We are often approached by the job centre... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
What IS Your Risk Management Philosophy?
Posted on November 27, 2009 | No CommentsTweet If the content in the headline doesn’t stop you in your tracks, it will definitely do so when inserted into the content of a job interview question instead. When... -
Monday Morning Links – 26th October
Posted on October 26, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet “You can observe a lot just by watching.” Yogi Berra It’s en vogue and a bit overdone, even for an English blog, to quote Yogi Berra. And though the Hall... -
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... -
The Job Advisor – Nicola on Assessments
Posted on September 30, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet Once a week, Arras People will give one of our own expert project management careers consultants a chance to answer some of the nagging questions you have about the... -
The Job Advisor: Nicola on Second Interviews
Posted on September 17, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Once a week, Arras People will give one of our own expert project management careers consultants a chance to answer some of the nagging questions you have about the... -
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... -
Do job agents just “fish” for info on who you have seen and who you are being interviewed by?
Posted on July 21, 2009 | 4 CommentsTweet In a word, yes, some do. Following on from the last article on Protect Your Project Management Professional Profile I wanted to share with you another practice which unfortunately... -
Advancing in Age Amid Economic Turmoil
Posted on June 3, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet The cold, hard facts of the economic frustrations were thrown a monkey wrench two months ago when I got an email from a gentleman in his 60s who worried... -
Creeped out by creepy interview techniques
Posted on March 16, 2009 | 5 CommentsTweet Just finished reading a blog post from Boss Advice about interview techniques, like anything I can take or leave some advice but this one creeped me out a little.... -
The Career Switch – How Arras People’s Careers Clinic Can Help
Posted on March 9, 2009 | No CommentsTweet It’s as close as some people might ever come to a full-fledged identity change, this concept of making a career change. Imagine the rugby union professional who cuts his... -
Getting Into Project Management – How a Careers Clinic Can Help
Posted on March 5, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet It is nowhere close to the struggles of a “glass ceiling” or a “seperate but equal” workplace inequity, but breaking into a new line of work undoubtedly has its rough patches... -
The 5 “C’s” The Recruitment Interview from The Interviewer’s Perspective
Posted on September 11, 2006 | No CommentsTweet When you are going for an interview remember to consider what experiences thoughts and processes the interviewer is going through as they evaluate you as someone who will potentially...
