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CV tips for: project managers
Start with a good layout to your CV, one which is clearly structured and has consistency. After all, you should have good organisation skills!
Keep formatting and text fonts simple and straightforward.
Ensure you have explained yourself clearly and that, regardless of any industry or technical jargon, your messages can be understood by everyone. A good project manager should be able to communicate at all levels of seniority and intellect.
Management and organisational experience are key. Draw attention to your roles in planning, designing, budgeting, process design, preparation, implementing and managing cross-functional teams.
Substantiate your background with details of the nature, scale, impact and outcomes of projects. And how they finished on time and to budget!
State clearly how you have anticipated and managed risks and quality issues, and monitored progress. Include details of how you have adhered to acknowledged standards.
If you have relevant qualifications or familiarity with recognised project management or quality improvement methodologies, such as Prince or Six Sigma, be sure to include them.
Try to include a good anecdote about a serious obstacle or disaster which you may have come across, and how you tackled it and brought things back on track!
A strong project management CV will communicate not just the relevant strengths of the individual, but ALSO the business value which was ultimately realised.
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Example: Project Management
