Project Manager Hiring Tips

It depends on the number of candidates, Rami. The higher the number, the mor details you need to sort them.

I'm actively looking for something, and I've realized that I was more attracted for ads that have following structure.

- Brief company description
- Brief role description
- Detailed (but not 2 pages) roles and responsibilities that make the position attractive, example number of team members (example Manage teams more than 25 people in matrix environment), budget (ex. projects $2M)...
- Mandatory skills (languages, pmp certification...)
- Desirable skills (work with Jira, union experiences...)
- Other info as benefits, shifts

And I was very disappointed when I've seen PROJECT MANAGER, and after the description was a sales rep role, poor role descriptions or those role descriptions that seems a copy & paste of PMBOK appendix.

Hope it helps, but remember I'm IT :) not very savy of construction requirements.

Good luck!

I would include why the role is interesting: Why should the candidate be interested in the position – what’s in it for the candidate, along with a summary of the role’s duties & responsibilities.

This is a good one, as with PMs I feel they are probably more selective than the average job candidate.

Personally, I like to know about the technology involved with the project (this is what makes it interesting to me), the size of the team involved, and dollar value of the project/portfolio.

Travel requirements are likely to be a discerning factor as well and vary greatly between PM roles.

Good luck finding a good candidate! If you have an opportunity for a PM who can work out of Orlando then let me know :)

Nice try Patrick :D

With regards to what you've mentioned, well, don't you think it's too much information to give from stage 1 ? Stage 1 usually is screening the resumes and upon shortlisting them, we can provide more information.

There is always a balance... but perhaps if you're not advertising your opportunity properly, you could be missing out on some qualified candidates applying to what they think, based on job description alone, are more appealing opportunities. I'd just look at it through that lens.

Good luck!

Rami, if you'll have a lot of resumes on your inbox. Will you use a screening program?

Maria, I will screen them myself - Over the years, I set my own screening criteria which is based on experience.

Rami, thank you for that. Your future candidates will appreciate (I've just requested feedback for one position that the recruiter didn't select me, and they answered that my resume didn't pass the screening program, it seems that some key words are more important that real experience or training)