Who's Piloting the Millennial Falcon?

Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.

  Manufacturing   Talent Management  

Well, now they’ve gone and done it…the millennials have reached the age of maturity. Actually, with the first identifiable millennials being born in 1981, the oldest ones are now in their mid-thirties and established enough to have started being managers and on their way to leadership in many organizations. However, while they may have successfully passed certain benchmarks, becoming a credentialed project manager is a difficult goal that not many have attained.

The Bumpy Ride
Support from organizations for training and education initiatives is fairly soft—and it can be even more so in a field like project management, which requires a number of standards be met even before you start the certification process. Project Management Professional (PMP)^® certification requires many thousands of hours of experience in leading and directing projects, or about two years of concentrated work in the field for college grads (and about four years for high school degreed individuals). This doesn’t even begin to take into account the effort it requires for “newbies” to break into the field.

For many millennials seeking to break into project management, they may need to wait for existing PMs to retire or move on to other challenges. As was noted in the recent Project Management Job Growth and Talent Gap Report from the Project Management …

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