You know those blog posts that are trying to get you to check in and maintain readership each and every day with regular – perhaps weekly – features, then inexplicably abandons the feature schedule for several cycles and suddenly the blog altogether, only to offer a token “Sorry, you wouldn’t believe how busy I’ve been” excuse that sounds like a hem and haw approach more awkward than a breakup that nevertheless tries to re-establish order, subsequently allowing me the opportunity to wax philosophic about it while carrying on the longest run-on sentence I’ve ever written (no small feat, by the way)?
If you need to know about the events, conferences and networking opportunities available to project managers, use Arras People to find out when and where they are.
You know that scenario?
Well, see…it-it-it’s like…I-I-I’ve kind of, you know…I’ve had this thing to…(shrug shoulders)…and my mom was in town, so-
Whatever. Our previous list of ways to use the Arras People website are as follows:
- Candidate Paths
- Careers Clinics
JobSearch Support Service*- Training Directory
- Salary & Day Rate
- Graduate Advice
- Social Media
- Sectors We Recruit In
- PM Bookshop
- Jobs Breakdown
Here’s our third installment:
- Project Events
Project management events, conferences, lectures and networking opportunities abound in the UK, north to south, east to west and even beyond, that gather Arras People’s attention. Whether regional or national, we want to be involved in the events where the latest information of our industry can be considered, absorbed and warrant our analysis and conclusions. Heck, we’re among those disseminating people ourselves. The Project Events page is constant and current, and even if we can’t make it to some events, we want you to know about them. For networking purposes, it’s the place to be. - Archived Vacancies
Like the great titans of generations past who live on in History Channel documentaries, vacancies never really die with Arras People. Even after that role has been taken off the Live Vacancies page, the details are not thrown in the cabinet to collect dust: it’s a living, breathing example for project managers, students and career changers looking to break through in PPM that they can use to study the industry. You can learn about the needs, trends, monetary expectations, level of commitment, personal attributes the role demands – this is a collection of your own Organisational Process Assets with lessons worth learning about the job market. A note of caution: as with our Live Vacancies, NEVER USE A JOB DESCRIPTION AS YOUR OWN CV! As it was in replacing Katie Holmes with Maggie Gyllenhaal, do you really think we won’t notice? - Our Publishing Partnership Page
Without being shills, our association with Gower Publishing has been beneficial for project managers nationwide. Gower regularly provides a great volume of relevant titles tying into projects and programmes, copies we make available to readers for reviews that often get published both here at the Camel, in Project Management Tipoffs, on the website and also in our series of Amazon reviews. Go to the Publishing Partnership Page, and you’ll find the route to a variety of reading material and relevant expertise from Gower. You can even get a discount or two on some pretty informative resources. - Previous Clients
We can’t tell you who our vacancies our with on the job description – company rules. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have some grasp of who we’ve worked with before. This page also gives you the benefit of breaking down just what sectors you can find a role in project management through Arras People. - Voluntary Project Management Positions
I want you to know that if you’re not in a good financial position to take on a voluntary role, no worries, onto the next way to use us. Turn the page, in essence. But if you’ve read what Arras People have written before on the matters of charitable project management, few positions can train you nearly as well as volunteer work can. You just can’t beat the real-world skills you’ll pick up. Consider what colleague Lindsay Scott wrote in this space four months ago:“The belief is more and more local groups will have more opportunity to compete in public service delivery and the key strengths the Third Sector brings is their focus on being ‘outcomes’ driven. Just taking those two points alone… you start to see the project management angles here – first, being able to compete for public service delivery in essence means competing through the tender process which in turn requires a stronger commercial, procurement and financial hat on. Bid and proposals have long been the beginning or initiation of projects therefore Third Sector (TS) organisations will need to ensure these skills are covered somewhere in their workforce. The second point – ‘outcomes’, this is the term used to describe the benefits delivered by a specific project or programme the TS organisation delivers. In order for TS organisations to compete they need to focus on driving more outcomes for each programme or project they deliver.“
For a budding project management professional, I’d be licking my lips at the sight of this filet of information on the menu. Here’s hoping the beef of our Voluntary PM Roles page satisfies that appetite.
Like those who’ve had to up their fibre uptake, we’ll try to stay regular with these lists of five. It’s a good way to keep our website and your perspective fresh and open to what Arras People offers to you every day in project and programme management job solutions.
*-Sadly, the Job Search Support Service for Newly Unemployed Professionals provision that had been available through the JobCentre Plus is no longer be available. And just as unemployment figures are going down? Erm, no – 27,000 times, no. You haven’t heard the last from me on this.
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