Arras People have long been proponents of careers clinics, support services, and careers advice web pages designed to keep job candidates abreast of the things that can help them search and secure jobs in the most effective ways possible. In addition, whenever the opportunity presents itself, we like to take our project management careers advice out on the road to places like Project Challenge.
Tuesday, we’re bringing this expertise to a local Association for Project Management convention in Aberdeen. Project Management Consultants Michael Hides and Gary Holmes will offer free CV workshops & reviews to help candidates struggling to cope with an increasingly cutthroat job market. The Aberdeen event, entitled Developing Your Skills for Successful Projects, will see a short presentation aimed at airing out the basic needs and aims of a well-crafted document.
“We’re going to try to get down to the basics,” said Holmes, a veteran Project Coordinator and PMO Support Officer who joined Arras People two years ago. “It’s all about how best to market yourself to prospective clients and future employers.”
“The advice we give to project management professionals is based on eight years experience of working within the project management recruitment field. We know what organisations and employers want to see in professional CVs so the session is all about passing on advice, hints and tips that help job seekers make the most of their CV.”
Hides, a chartered engineer and project veteran, joined Arras People in 2007 and thinks the company’s efforts to improve candidates’ chances of being hired are greatly enhanced through careers clinics and CV workshops such as this.
“The CV Workshops for the APM are based on our popular project management careers clinics,” Hides said. “The session will be targeted directly at project management professionals which makes the opportunity pretty unique for conference attendees, there is no other careers advice and CV workshops specifically for project management professionals available in the marketplace.”
“Developing Your Skills for Successful Projects” is not open only to members of the APM or even Aberdeen APM branch members. To learn more about booking your place at the event, go to www.apm.org.uk/scotland/eventDevelopi2.asp?pdate=0-0&branch=9. For more information on the project management careers clinics at Arras People, go to www.arraspeople.co.uk/cand/careers_clinics.html.
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Am looking forward to meeting everyone at this APM event, which is taking a broad look at how project professionals keep their skills honed and their iontellects sharp.