Project Management Specialists

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What they do:
Analyze and coordinate the schedule, timeline, procurement, staffing, and budget of a product or service on a per project basis. Lead and guide the work of technical staff. May serve as a point of contact for the client or customer.
On the job, you would:
  • Communicate with key stakeholders to determine project requirements and objectives.
  • Identify project needs such as resources, staff, or finances by reviewing project objectives and schedules.
  • Submit project deliverables to clients, ensuring adherence to quality standards.

Knowledge

Arts and Humanities

  • English language

Business

  • management
  • administrative services

Engineering and Technology

  • computers and electronics

Skills

Basic Skills

  • listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
  • thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem

Problem Solving

  • noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it

People and Technology Systems

  • thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
  • figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it

Abilities

Verbal

  • communicate by writing
  • listen and understand what people say

Ideas and Logic

  • notice when problems happen
  • use rules to solve problems

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

They do well at jobs that need:

  • Self-Confidence
  • Leadership Orientation
  • Perseverance
  • Adaptability
  • Stress Tolerance
  • Self-Control

Technology

You might use software like this on the job:

Enterprise resource planning ERP software

  • Oracle PeopleSoft Hot Technology
  • SAP software Hot Technology

Project management software

  • Atlassian Confluence Hot Technology
  • Microsoft Teams Hot Technology

Video creation and editing software

  • Flipgrid
  • YouTube

Education

Education: (rated 3 of 4)
bachelor's degree or
associate's degree or other 2-year degree
usually needed

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