Posts tagged Project Management
Scott Advises New Project Managers in Podcast
Lindsay Scott, co-founder of Arrs People, provided information and hints about breaking into the project management trade in interview with the Project Management Institute.
Scott’s answers to questions about getting a start on a project management career are available to the wider public for downloading in a podcast from the Career Central section of the PMI website. Specific questions targeted Scott’s industry-acclaimed perspective on developing experience, showing a desire within a company structure for project opportunities, learning the jargon for other project-centric work, and other careers tips about cover letters and accounting for gaps in your career.
The entirety of the interview is available through this PMI Career Central web page.
Arras People Launch New Website
Aug 31st
Arras People launched its new website on the 27th August after several months of development. It’s been a long time coming but finally we decided the amount of information we have on project management recruitment and careers needed a refresh!
Candidates
The new website makes it much easier for candidates to browse the latest project opportunities; subscribe to the job alerts and register for contract or permanent work. We have also updated and reviewed all the project management careers advice and implemented a new system for our popular project management careers clinics.
Clients
For our clients, the new website holds details about the kinds of sectors we work in; the types of project roles we recruit; and previous work examples we’ve carried out. We’ve also launched our branded advertisements and featured employer sections which provide a cost effective solution to attracting project management candidates to active positions an organisation may have open.
Further developments and adds on for the website are already being planned and implemented so watch this space for new additions.
Let us know what you think about the new website; any comments would be greatly appreciated 
Arras Peoples Lindsay Scott Named Top Project Influencer
Apr 22nd
Manchester, UK, 21 April 2010 – Arras People co-Director Lindsay Scott has been named one of ten key influencers in the project management industry by the Association for Project Management (APM) in the April 2010 edition of Project magazine.
Scott, who has served with the the project management recruitment firm based in Heywood since its 2002 inception, was praised for her contributions to the project management market, lauding Scott for her work in social media, stating she has “blazed a trail in social media, working with project managers online to share knowledge and promote professionalism.”
“Outlets like LinkedIn, Twitter, blogging and online resources are very important for us as a business,” Scott says in the article, which has been re-printed in the PM Industry Notes section of the Arras People website. “We’re project managers first and it’s to our advantage to enhance the professionalism of the industry in any way we can. Social media is another great tool to push the message. We work with like-minded project managers to spread the message and share knowledge of how to go about it the right way.
“When we learn, hear or observe things through other project managers in our networks, and that includes social media, that we deem to have integrity, we want to share that with the wider project management community. We use our own social media platform to enable project professions to share their experiences through things like blogging and newsletters.”
Twitter has been a particular boon to career-minded personnel, and Scott maintains a strong network of project management compatriots on Twitter under the identity of @projectmgmt (http://twitter.com/projectmgmt). A former project management office (PMO) guru with Hewlett-Packard, Scott regularly tweets and re-tweets links to blog posts, slideshows, articles and more from some of the industrys leading figures, including those from Arras People and their variety of social media outlets.
Scott believes that despite the current economic struggles, continuing advances in social media gives candidates and clients alike the capacity for growth and success.
“I believe that social media is still in its infancy and will certainly increase its influence in the field of programmes and projects, not to mention recruitment over the coming years,” she says. “Communication and collaboration are the cornerstone of effective programme and project management, so how could it not?”
Arras People’s Director Named Expert For Guardian Careers Live Forum
Jan 7th
Lindsay Scott, Director of Recruitment at Arras People, will answer your questions about project management live online Tuesday from 1-4pm GMT.
Arras People, the Project Management Recruitment specialists, can reveal that one of their leading PM experts has been formally invited by Guardian Careers to participate as an expert panellist in an online Live Q&A about project management next week.
Lindsay Scott, Director of Recruitment at Arras People since the companys 2002 inception, will serve as one of four renowned experts during the live online question and answer session on Tuesday, 12th January between 1pm 4pm. Details of how to join in the live forum are listed below.
Noted for her expertise in project offices and project co-ordination recruitment and skills, Ms Scott previously worked for Hewlett-Packard as a Project Co-ordinator and later as a Project Office Manager. Her service with HP led to the development of skills working with a variety of markets, including e-commerce, retail, telecoms, public sector and defence. As Project Office Manager, Ms Scott established and fine-tuned the UK project office for HP while also guiding and supporting the companys European project office functions.
A tireless student & expert on project office support issues, Ms Scott is also an active member of the Programme and Project Support Office Specialist Interest Group (PPSO SIG). This endeavour has allowed her to provide voluntary assistance in areas such as web development, media and conference arrangement.
As a project management recruitment specialist we provide advice to job seekers everyday so taking part in the Guardian Careers Forum will be an extension of that, Scott said. Im looking forward to providing advice to a cross section of people and hopefully Ill be able to provide some real practical hints and tips for people looking for a career in project management.
Ms Scotts expertise has been in demand in recent years. She has contributed worldwide to periodicals including Project Manager Today, Project Management Institute (PMI), Project Magazine and PM Network, as well as blogging regularly at Arras Peoples project management weblog, How to Manage a Camel. That demand results in large part due to the success of Arras Peoples annual Project Management Benchmark Report, a survey of UK project management professionals on the trends and issues currently affecting the profession. The 2009 report covered matters including salary, rates, experience and working climate in the recession. Data from that survey revealed that 84 per cent of PMs feel that they have a significant role to play in helping the UK economy out of its current economic difficulties.
The 2010 report, the fifth annual edition of the survey findings offered by Arras People, is due out on February 1.
The report has been a really useful guide to project management professionals in the UK over the last four years, Scott said. Its particularly useful for people wanting to gain a deeper understanding of the current project management marketplace and the salary or contractor rate levels for the sectors.
Other panellists include Tarquin Bennett-Coles, director of RSA Interims; Fergus OConnell, founder of ETP; and Steve Armstrong, lecturer and chair of the project management course at the Open University.
NOTES ABOUT THE LIVE Q&A
The session can be found by clicking the Project Management link under the Live Q&A page inside the Forum tab on the Guardian Careers website. The full URL is available here: http://careers.guardian.co.uk/forums?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat%3afbe1954f-19a7-4006-82a3-08b5319f4c1dForum%3a7296f258-6ce7-4743-b359-795e7661e245Discussion%3ace5d8eb3-4138-497c-9756-8b007c6a68e1
