I am struggling to gain my first Project Management role, can anyone provide some advice on what I should be doing?
I am fully Prince2 Qualified and have limited experience but for some reason i'm not getting interviews.
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Elizabeth HarrinDirector| RebelsGuideToPM.comLondon, England, United Kingdom
Hello Craig. From your CV it looks as if you already have a project management job. I would say that you don't need to list that you have Foundation, as it's a pre-requisite for Practitioner. Also, saying it took you 3 months to get Foundation (when a standard 5-day course does it in 3 days) doesn't add anything. Although, I'm not sure that tidying up your certification section will make a significant difference to recruiters. Have you had any feedback from recruitment agents? They would be better placed to help you polish your CV. Saving Changes...
Sunando ChaudhuriDirector - PMO & Governance| ModonDist: Burdwan, West Bengal, India
Hi Craig, I agree with Elizabeth. I think you are already doing a PM job role but what I thought was missing in your CV was the way you have represented your credentials/ work. I think you need to make your CV a project based CV and not a day-to-day work based CV as it looks currently. Eg. Managed Data Transfer Services (MDTS) Project . You need to tell people what this project delivered and what were your key contributions to it, what was the cost, how many resources etc. etc. This is what I felt slightly different to a typical PM CV. All the best.
Your CV its OK as it is but it is not dynamic enough! Presentation and content is very important.
Start with entering top of the page
CURRICULUM VITAE
ENTER YOUR NAME
ENTER TEL NO
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Profile needs work - you are selling yourself as a PRINCE 2 qualified Project Manager, forget using words in collaboration - emphasise that you are a strong Leader and Project Manager etc that you have successfully delivered varied projects! small medium and large to budgets exceeding .......£ etc..
then
EXPERIENCE
bullet point your experience and any technical competencies\qualifications too
Provide a list of projects that you have managed and delivered
What was the business need\solution
What was the business requirement and your role as Project Manager
List the companies and roles held starting with your current one
All you need is to tidy up your CV - when you have finished doing it, run it pass a Senior Project Manager for their thoughts...
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Lindsay ScottDirector| Arras PeopleHeywood, United Kingdom
Hi Craig
Just taken a look at your CV and the obvious thing that stands out for me is that you're not mentioning enough about the project management skills you have. You mention stakeholder mgmt, reporting, workshop planning and handover documents - what about the work around initiation (business cases, feasibility), planning (the PID and WBS, Gantt etc), Delivery (risk, issue, change etc).
Try to think about the functional role you perform - use the PRINCE2 framework as a guide if it helps - and that should help bring out the things that matter when someone is looking to recruit a PM
Hope that helps
I also have some resources on the website that might help
