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The Global PM (Part 1)
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
Two decades ago, only huge conglomerates did a brisk international business. This was before the word “global” became trendy. Today, however, big and small companies are jumping into this arena. Goods, materials, machinery and products of every type and size are being manufactured and distributed by countries that played little or no part in the vast global marketplace 20 years ago. That’s because they have access to markets and customers that were once unreachable.
As this new, vast, complex business arena develops, there is an increasing demand for IT professionals, especially project managers with global/international experience, according to J. LeRoy Ward, PMP, executive vice president of ESI International, a project management training and consulting company in Arlington, Virginia.
While the demand is constant, most of the good jobs are hard to find because they’re not advertised in recruitment sections of newspapers, although some are listed on large job sites like Monster and CareerBuilder. Typically, companies looking for seasoned PMs with international experience are more likely to turn to executive search firms (headhunters) first. But they’ll usually look within their own ranks even before that, says Ward. “That’s because these positions require significant experience in running complex global …
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