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Career Diversification – Transferable Skills (Project Management in particular)

  • 05-08-2012 9:08pm
    #1
    000sparks000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭


    Guys and Girls

    Looking for some advice here!

    I am surveyor by profession, not chartered yet and have done project management over the years in my current firm. To get a bow on my belt I did the Post Grad in Project Management in Trinity, did well enough.

    My experience so far would be in the property sector (over 10 years); however it’s not what you would think. It’s not construction project management or on site, it would be client side project management. Client deliverable, team assembly, team management, programme management, delivery and wind up.

    I feel that my skills are transferable and following a pep talk with a friend of mine who is a Business Analyst, he feels that my skills are transferable!

    I am looking for a change!

    Am I restricted to the property sector or can I PM in another sector. Or take a side step in property.

    I can’t get my head around PM’ing in say IT, but not having an understanding of IT to support the calls your making. Am I making sense?

    My mate says, if you’re a PM, you just apply the same methodology and away you go. But I think there is more to it than that. Basically I don’t want to put a huge amount of energy into looking to make a move if it is just a waste of time in terms of the type of jobs I may go for.

    I don’t have PM certs in PRINCE or anything, just my Trinity Post Grad, but again that was property orientated.

    Any advice would be appreciated or opinions, even of courses maybe (part-time or night/weekend).

    I am an organisation freak, good communicator and have done scheduling etc in previous jobs, like 15 years ago. I know to purely PM will suit me as a person.

    Is there such thing as a General Project Manager or do you become an IT sector one or Property sector one or Finance sector one!

    And just because I feel like doing it, heres a smiley face! :)


Comments

  • #2
    Mr. Loverman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,001 ✭✭✭Mr. Loverman


    From my own experience working in IT, the IT project managers had little to no IT skills... The better ones were able to get away with this by reading the documentation produced by the business analysts so they at least had a reasonable grasp of what each project consisted of. You would not be expected to understand code or anything like that.


  • #3
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    I'd find the opposite to Mr.Loverman. It's not that they had to read code but more so that PM's had worked their way up as a programmer / analyst before becoming a PM. Just my own experience from recruiting IT PM's. That said I work with companies in banking & insurance and they demand certain criteria before even talking to candidates, it might be different in other sectors.

    Prince2 is a useful qualification to have in IT PMing, a lot of companies lately also look out for exposure to Agile / Scrum too.


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