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Uncle Sam Needs PMs--Lots of Them!
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
All federal agencies are hiring project mangers--from interns to experienced PMs. They’re career jobs, and would you believe, the pay isn’t bad either. But the downside is that these jobs are not easy to snare--not that they ever were.
Kim Quinones knows firsthand. She is a PM with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington, D.C. Her title is program analyst. Like so many professionals who wind up in good government jobs, Quinones never intended to work for a government agency. Call it serendipity, chance, fate.
Quinones had just landed her master’s degree in industrial and organizational psychology from the University of Baltimore, and she needed a job. Through friends and networking contacts, she heard about the federal government’s internship program. She applied, was accepted and in less than six weeks reported to work. What Quinones thought would be an interim job blossomed into an exciting career. That was three years ago. Quinones says she loves her job and has no intention of leaving.
Why? You’re going to find out what it’s like building a career as a project manager in the largest organization on the planet--the U.S. federal government. Quinones’ boss is the boss of bosses, Big Brother himself: Uncle Sam.
The federal government has always hired PMs, but the hiring used to be …
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