I’ve never thought about becoming a project manager as career but it sounds like a really exciting career. I would like to participate on project as leader in the future. Project management is very important role in all industry and it is one of the most important processes in the company. I think we all have been involved in the project management at least once from school or working field, whether we recognize it or not. The project management practice is very important because we can develop leadership, planning skill, organizing skill, communication skill and many others. In my opinion, experience is the key issue to become a good project leader. The gains from project management practice will improve those skills gradually and I wish I can involve in a project team under highly experienced project manager to learn his or her professionalism. It will be very helpful to me to become professional leader in the future.
I researched some qualities what good project manager should have. The essential qualities for good project manager are strong leadership ability, excellent communication skill, good interpersonal skill, problem solving skill, time management skill and ability to develop people.
There are some interesting project management positions in IT posted in the job search site. They all seek person who can do initiating, planning, controlling and closing projects. Some places require the project management certification such as PMP. Most of company mentioned about school background as requirement and the education is really important to be placed in competitive candidate position. The degree related on IT was essential option to candidate. However, the experiences were the mandatory requirement for all the project manager positions and they requested minimum five years of experience. Even though some companies don’t mention about education, all of them put experience related to IT field as what candidate must have. In addition, some job posting mentioned requesting candidates’ personality information.
Project manager position will be ideal future career to people who like working with others, managing project from beginning to ending and having hands on involvement. It is also attractive to person like me who wish to improve these skills and become a certain project leader in the future.
The lists of job titles that I researched are followings;
Information technology project manager
Project management consultant
Senior project manager
IT audit manager
IT Recruiter
http://www.managementhelp.org/plan_dec/project/project.htm
www.monster.ca
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management
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I absolutely agreed with Eric's opinion that experience is the key issue to become a good project leader.
For example, if you asked your supervisor's solution, but he or she said to you "I am not sure that apply this theory to this case can work or not, but we may try it and learn from mistakes." In contrast, if your supervisor said to you "it is not a big deal, I met this case before, you just follow my instruction then this problem must be solved."
What do you feel between these two types of leader? For me, I prefer the correct instruction than learning from mistake.
I agree to the ideas of eric about the requirements for the positions in project management.The relevant skills and experience required for these positions shows the level of responsibility that an applicant should have.
Eric has clearly analysed the needs for these positions.
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