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[Karen Haight <klh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apropos of "project management skills," have we ever listed them out here?
What are, objectively speaking, core project management skills?  As an
aside, I am particularly interested in separating out innate
talent/inclination from learnable skills.

Karen H


On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Al Arboleda wrote:

>
>
> Keren,
>
> I am also  PMI certified. I agree with Greg's comment that more jobs are
> putting down PMP certification down as a requirement.
>
> But just plain experience, contacts, and reference projects are what people
> are going to focus on when selecting candidates..
>
> Going through the process of getting certified you learn a great deal about
> project management that is applicable to any situation.
>
> I also don't think that  I would have ever taken the time or been allowed
> the time at work to focus on project management.
>
> A lot of people get into project management not by choice but more by
> circumstance .
>
> Certification forces you too look at and treat project management as a
> discipline.
>
> At least that is my take on the worth of it.
>
> AA
>
>
>
> on 4/29/02 8:20 AM, Greg Glaser at gglaser@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > Keren -
> >
> > I'm PMI certified--have been for about a year.
> >
> > Since I'm actually *looking* for work now it's very helpful: Many PM
> > positions (in the D/FW area, at least) are requiring it, so it's opened
> > a lot more doors. It's the kind of thing that will make strangers or
> > recruiters take notice of you and in some cases put your resume on that
> > shorter stack...
> >
> > But depending on your network of business colleagues, I wouldn't
> > necessarily call it "necessary." Don't get me wrong: I'm proud of the
> > certification because I take the work seriously but ultimately I still
> > think it's who you know that'll land you a position.
> >
> > Just one guy's opinion. And I'm available for hire in the Dallas area,
> > if you know of anything. :-)
> >
> > Greg Glaser, PMP
> > gglaser@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
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