Latest Salary Survey: PMP Salary Is Going Up!
Project Managers in Demand, Salaries Increase – reports Newsle.com based on PMI (Project Management Institute)’s latest Project Management Salary Survey. Released in early 2014, this survey findings represented facts for 2013. The survey was conducted across 33 countries including United States, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Germany, and information collected from more than 36,000 project management practitioners.
What does this report contain?
- Salary increases reported over the past year
- Salary increases expected for the next year
- Info on benefit packages, project management career paths and work environments
Attributes collected were position description, years of work experience in project management, highest formal education level, degree in project management, PMP credential status, training per year, industry, type of project, avg project team size and typical project budget.
The important point is that irrespective of the economical conditions in 2013, findings of both Salary Survey and Project Management Talent Gap Report corroborates the fact the compensation of project management professionals are moving upwards. This must be expected, given the demand generated by projected creation of $15.7 million new project management positions around the world between 2010 and 2020. [continue reading…]
‘PMP Question Of The Day‘ contest on Facebook community completed two months as of end of January.
The winner of this contest for January 2014 is….. Asmara Rahat!
This is a consecutive win for her. Congratulations!
Correct answers tally looks like this –
- Asmara Rahat – 13
- Shaik Abdul – 6
- Maurice R Dueman – 5
- Manikya Rao – 3
- Alan Douglas, Sharad Kanthi, Faisal Shahzad – 1 each
Congratulations to all participants, way to go!
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Expect tougher questions this month. 🙂
“Let’s discuss the company’s health benefits during our smoke break.”
Project environment could be quite serious, especially when delivery dates are approaching.
Humor is known to be an antidote for even depression.
Naturally these two should go together harmoniously. Right?
On the outset, yes. While a healthy dose of clean humor at work can create wonders, ill-timed or out-of-context humor even when meant well, can turn a harmonious project situation sour.
Influence of Culture
Michael Kerr, president of ‘Humor at Work‘ and author of ‘The Humor Advantage: Why Some Businesses are Laughing all the Way to the Bank’, says the amount or type of humor you’ll find in any given workplace depends almost entirely on the culture.
As a project manager, especially if your team has people from different cultures, you need to be careful about type of humor used. Not only project manager needs to be cautious in using humor (timing and context) but also look out for inappropriate usage by team members. [continue reading…]
I recently came across this question in one of the project management forums and thought it might be useful to write about my experience.
The question was:
How can I get recognized by my customers and manager(s) when I am working on long-running projects (maintenance projects, for instance)?
This has been one of the most often asked questions in my mentoring discussions. Getting recognition for your work is quite essential for your growth in the company.
For one I think that it doesn’t matter whether you work on long-term or short-term projects, the following points will work.
What is given, and most of us often forget this, is the fact that we have to constantly sell the value we bring to the table to the company, and to clients we work with. With everyone being too busy with work it is very easy to take someone’s work for granted (do you get noticed only when you make some mistake?).
Look at what happens in the most fundamental relationship: when is the last time you wholeheartedly thanked your parents for doing all that they have done for you? Yup 🙂 we tend to take things for granted. Not much different at the workplace either.
Showcasing our value, in other words, selling ourselves, is not a bad thing though. We need to be subtle about it and not come across as someone blowing his/her own trumpet. Here are my top three points – of course not covering the fundamental, which is to ‘be good at what you do’. [continue reading…]
I have a great news to share. PMESN’s content is among the top 2% of most viewed on SlideShare in 2013!
Thank you friends, this is possible only due to your support! This also indicates that you are finding value in the content churned out on this blog, on Slideshare and Facebook, Twitter and G+ community. It makes all the effort worthwhile. 🙂
PMESN was started with the goal is taking a PMP aspirant on the shortest possible path to get his or her PMP certification.
Why?
- Because managing a full time job and PMP preparation is not easy
- Because building momentum on PMP study is hard, maintaining is harder
- Because information overload on the internet alone causes hindrance to study
- Because knowing very well that PMP is an answer to growing fast (financially as well as opportunity-wise) we find it difficult to prepare well
Today PMESN is very much on its way to give you a way to fastest PMP journey from decision to study PMP to passing the exam. Wait for more fantastic resources to make your journey even shorter.
Just to let you know, as of today over 9496 people all around the world have been benefited by PMP lessons on this blog!
On a side note, a little coincidence to note about Slideshare stats –
- 17 presentations were uploaded: 1+7 = 8
- The year was 2013
- Now if you rearrange 2013 and 8, you get 21038.
That’s exactly the number of times these presentations were viewed! 🙂
Don’t believe me? Click here to see the stats!
In just 2 weeks into 2014, now total views have crossed 23000!
Thank you, once again. Yes, you. YOU make this happen. 🙂
Best,
Shiv
