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Is anyone in Creative Project Management?
I’m looking to pivot my marketing career into Creative Project Management. I’m trying to decide whether to pursue certification from PMI and I would love to speak to / message with women who actually hold the job, just to ask a few questions. Like: Because I’ve only worked for small business, would the PMP show I’m serious and help me look good on paper? What kind of lower level jobs can I look for first?
Chloe Nguyen
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10/28/20 at 7:44PM UTC
I have been a project manager and also have hired project managers and I do not look for PMPs. I moreso care about your communication skills and style, organization skills, and relationships you build and maintain with partners and stakeholders. Basically, even if your title wasn't PM before but you're still doing project management (which is likely the case since you worked at small biz), I'd consider you.
Crystal HuntMarketer with a penchant for Project Management
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10/28/20 at 7:51PM UTC
Thanks so much for your feedback. So you work for a digital marketing agency who hires PMs? What kind of PM experience would you look for on a resume?
Chloe Nguyen
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10/28/20 at 9:05PM UTC
I work for a corporation who builds homes, in their digital marketing department.
Things I look for on a resume when I hire project managers:
- Scope of projects managed: this includes budgets, timeline length, and parties involved
- Process creation, workflow management: how a PM candidate managed the workflow from one party to the next -- better yet, if she created workflow processes
- Collaboration
Other things I look for (if you can work these into your resume, great!):
- Challenge / Obstacle management: what happened when a project started to go off the rails? How did you fix? What was the outcome and what are the lessons learned?
- Ability to communicate clearly
- Attention to detail
- Great attitude
Chloe Nguyen
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10/28/20 at 7:48PM UTC
I missed answering something. I am not sure what creative project management is, but I work for a corporation in digital marketing.
Barb HansenStartup Product, Growth & Strategy
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10/28/20 at 5:19PM UTC
Oh another tip. Learn some different online project management tools (wrike, trello, basecamp, asana, smartsheet to name just a few of the hundreds that are out there) .
You can get a free week-/month-long access to many of these tools or at least watch a company's explanatory videos on Youtube.
Even if you haven't worked in a particular PM software, you can say that you are familiar with a bunch of them.
Barb HansenStartup Product, Growth & Strategy
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10/28/20 at 4:36PM UTC
I hired project managers but I'm not one myself. I hire PMs for technical and creative projects.
Unless I am hiring a PM for a major (multiple years long technical project), I do not care about a PPM - I have worked with plenty of great PMs who do not hold a PPM and I have worked with a few PPM'd PMs who were awful. I have counselled many junior PMs to not peruse a PPM unless they want to be a PM for major projects.
Want to look "better on paper" while you grow your PM career:
- many marketers manage outsourced creative projects and if you have those outsourced projects in your background, then play them up
- take some LinkedIn or other classes in project management
- Google is launching a PM certificate (they say it's coming soon) for no or little cost (https://grow.google/certificates/)
Job titles you can look at:
- web project manager
- account manager
- web producer
- digital project manager
Good luck ;)
Crystal HuntMarketer with a penchant for Project Management
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10/28/20 at 7:52PM UTC
Thank you so much for the feedback! That's a good point about large projects vs. small. I'm considering doing a 3 month program with eCornell University that would give me a Project Management Certificate. Would you say that's worth the investment?
Barb HansenStartup Product, Growth & Strategy
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10/28/20 at 9:03PM UTC
I'm not familiar with that course, but it costs $4K right? Personally, I'm not a fan of spending a lot of money for certifications that aren't required to get a job (i.e. you don't need a PM certification to get a PM job but you need certification for a CISCO network job) . I wish I could tell you that taking that course will land you a job but I can't, and 4k is a lot of money to invest into training just to land certifications that aren't required. :(
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