Stephanie SpauldingProgram Analyst| Nexight Group LLCChurchton, Md, United States
How can I find out if my previous job experience qualifies towards PMI hours? I worked as a mortgage loan officer with multiple clients, partners, and portfolios at a time. Each loan has a start date, and closeout date with plenty of planning, executing, and monitoring and controlling throughout the project. Saving Changes...
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Peter ContrerasSenior Project Manager| TheBash.com/PeterHouston, Tx, United States
Enter it. and it will pass, most likely. Saving Changes...
It will come down to positioning the work you did as project management. I'd suggest downloading the PMP Application Assistant Excel workbook (Google it and you'll find it), and use the activity examples as a good starting point.
The one challenge you might face is that if you get audited, the auditor might claim that these projects are too similar to be claimed as separate instances - once you've done the same type of project many times, the level of uniqueness drops sufficiently that it becomes more of an operational process. I've had some PMP candidates who have had their applications rejected more than once for that reason...
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Karthik RamamurthyAuthor, Say YES to Project Success| Founder KeyResultzChennai, Tamilnadu, Tamilnadu, India
Hi Stephanie: Interesting question!
On the face of it, each mortgage processed may seem to follow the PM Life Cycle of Initiation, Planning, Executing, Monitoring & Controlling, and Closing.
As Kiron rightly mentioned, you indeed facethe risk of these loan processing instances being treated as "operations" instead of projects.
As someone who has guided hundreds of PMP aspirants, I increasingly find that PMI (rightly so) wants to see that you actively managed a project in a leadership position.
From this point of view, it may be complicated to explain each as a project! Saving Changes...
