From the course: How to Successfully Lead a PMO
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Challenge: Hiring your next project manager
From the course: How to Successfully Lead a PMO
Challenge: Hiring your next project manager
(upbeat music) - It's only a matter of time until you'll need to grow your PMO team to handle the workload. I've seen a client hire their first project manager within three months of starting the PMO. And another one onboarded seven project managers in 1 1/2 years. Let's glance at a real life challenge on hiring your next project manager. Suppose that you're the PMO leader of a mid-sized construction company that already has 15 project managers. You need to find your next one. You put together a job description and ask your HR team to circulate it within the organization and on external job sites. And for good measure, you also put the job on your personal social media accounts and asked your project managers to do the same. In a couple of weeks, the HR team tells you that there are over a hundred people who applied for the job. You asked them to immediately stop accepting any more candidates, because you've got…
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