Happy New Year!
As we settle back into the office after the festive holidays and into a new financial year, for many in the private sector we are seeing a turn in confidence. Running up to Christmas we experienced a dip in confidence for existing and new clients recruiting their project teams – not surprising with the economic news in the media and their bleak reports of a looming recession (again). Moving forward, as the new budgets are being agreed, the growing confidence is evident in the number of new enquiries we are experiencing. The difference in the enquiries moving forward on the whole tends to be clients requiring additional assistance in determining what resources they require and whether their “wish list” is asking too much.
At Arras People, we are happy to assist in a consultative basis with all clients to ensure you receive the best advice and actually the right people for your projects. As seasoned practitioners in the field of PPM, we can offer technical advice and all offer specialist areas such as PMO, programme management, project management, portfolio management, etc., to ensure you are dealing with a consultant who actually knows what you are talking about and are not afraid to ask questions that get to the “nuts and bolts” of it.
At Arras, we fully understand the need to be frugal with budgets – we have sat through the 2009 recession and through effective strategy have grown our team, not reduced it. We treat our assignments here as a portfolio of projects and aim to deliver as promised; we manage expectations and take an honest informed approach and cut out the sales spiel. We understand your time is precious and therefore from day one we collaboratively agree a plan of communication to least impede your busy schedule, but also ensures that you achieve the results you’re looking for.
In a time when candidates are being risk averse – choosing to stay in their current roles rather than take on new opportunities – we find our active networks are of particular use. As we work hard to ensure we are constantly meeting new talent, we also keep in touch with practitioners in many fields, building relationships and sharing PPM knowledge. These groups are invaluable to our resourcing tools: they ensure we can tap into markets untouched by the flurry of mass recruitment and can bring fresh talent to the table.
Our database also plays a big part in our recruitment success – candidates are invited to register their details with us and we ensure we keep it up to date with those who are still current and what their needs are moving forward. This is often another starting point for building up relationships, and by signing up for our newsletter, candidates can keep abreast of shows, exhibitions, presentations, etc., where they will often find at least one of the Arras team in attendance to assist in building that relationship.
Another area not to be overlooked is our 2012 Programme and Project Management Census – annually, we release a survey to the PPM domain, asking all involved with programme and project management to take part and offer their opinions. The resulting data that leads to our annual Programme and Project Management Benchmark Report is invaluable to ensure we can provide you with the most up-to-date insider information on a number of areas within the PPM domain. If you have already completed the survey – thank you for lending your voice, and well done. Can we further ask that your send it on to as many project people as possible to ensure we can give a fuller picture moving forward in 2012?
