Learning pathways and your project management career

Project management training and education choices can be an alphabet soup of acronyms, so how do you know which one will be most useful for the career you want? Education specialist Steven Rowe talks to Adeline Teoh about considerations to make when looking for a course provider.

Project management recruitment spikes in WA

Western Australia is booming and project managers for the property and resources sectors are in high demand, driving recruitment specialists into the state, according to Capstone Recruitment.

For project management and beyond

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Review: Hiring for Attitude—Mark Murphy

Hiring for Attitude is a top-rated book by Mark Murphy, chairman and CEO of Leadership IQ. Prabesh Aryal provides his review:

“I believe this book would be a very good reference for project managers to assemble an attitude oriented project team.”

10 project management trends for 2012

According to global project management training organisation ESI International, we can expect collaboration between teams, stakeholders and executives to gain importance as complexity grows. Project management in 2012 will also see growth in on-the-job training, custom project management approaches, innovative project tools and smarter resource management.

Project managers well-placed in employment figures

Project managers are poised to benefit from positive employment expectations despite negative global sentiment about the economy, according to global recruitment specialist Hudson.

Employee engagement in the IT sector

The IT industry is facing a major challenge in the area of employee attrition. Every organisation is working on devising new measures to increase retention.

Recruiters recognise project management standards

Project management standards are set to become more important to recruiters according to a new agreement between the Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM) and the Recruitment and Consulting Services Association (RCSA).