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Rajan Hariramabadran Varada Delivery Manager| Talisma Corporation Bangalore, Karnataka, India
How to present your accomplishments as a PM in interviews
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
In interviews, you normally do not have the luxury to elaborate a lot so time is not always in your favor. You need to highlight your top achievements and briefly elaborate about them.
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1 reply by Mudassar Khan
Feb 15, 2017 5:19 AM
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I agree with Rami as time is an issue you have to be specific and precise and focus on Lesson Learned or Social Impact of the Project you Managed
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Mayte Mata Sivera PMO Leader | Speaker | Author Ut, United States
As Rami said, you should highlight the top achievements. I usually check the organization before going to the interview and try to focus in those more relevant for the position.
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Satish Sharma Certified SAP S4Hana 1909 Financials Expert| Freelance New Delhi, India
One good example and you are done, you will have a smooth sail if you convince i/viewer in first instance.
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Deepesh Rammoorthy ICT Project Manager ( PMP®AgilePM®Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®))| Australian Red Cross Blood Service Tarneit, Vic, Australia
Present a brief outline of the project and your role in it , talk about a difficult situation which you tackled and the business benefits that you helped achieve on the project. If you are able to relate your experience to PMBOK , you get brownie points
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Emily Luijbregts Project Manager| Siemens PLM Software Breda, Netherlands
I'd use examples to show what you've managed to achieve which is relevant to the question.

E.g. how do you handle conflict - show an example using your history and expertise.

You need to highlight your top achievements, know what they are and then how it relates to the job you're interviewing for
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Anupam India
I will have my accomplishments as a separate portfolio. Will present on need basis. Generally, key highlight will suffice.
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shreeram madangopal Corporate Trainer, Auditor, Consultant| Independent Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
From an interview perspective, the PM achievements would have to be domain specific. A summarized / template way of presenting your achievements might help, for e.g.:
Total Projects :
Longest / largest projects (in terms of revenue or in terms of improvements):
Duration :
Total team strength:
My role :
What was the result: (preferably in figures and numbers):
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Eduard Hernandez
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Product Operations Program Manager Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
The answer is embedded in the question. Ensure that you highlight what you ACCOMPLISHED in the project, rather than what you did. Tailor the answer to the needs of the company that is interviewing you.
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Mudassar Khan Program (Project )Manager| Woodward Canada Inc Peterborough, ON, Canada
Feb 10, 2017 8:52 AM
Replying to Rami Kaibni
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In interviews, you normally do not have the luxury to elaborate a lot so time is not always in your favor. You need to highlight your top achievements and briefly elaborate about them.
I agree with Rami as time is an issue you have to be specific and precise and focus on Lesson Learned or Social Impact of the Project you Managed
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Demetrius Williams Atlanta, Ga, United States
Great responses.

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