Category: How-to Guides

Let’s imagine you’re in charge of interviewing skilled project management candidates for a vacancy on the leader of your project team. PM interviewing is a responsible duty that you should carry out to recruit an effective project manager able to manage your project throughout the life cycle and lead the team. How to select project management candidates and choose the best one? Which selection criteria should you use to interview prospective candidates and measure their skills? In this article I’ll talk about four core personal skills that PM candidates should have in order to become an effective project manager. By understanding these skills, it’ll be no more a problem for you to find and employ the best PM candidate. This article is a short guide for recruiters and employers who need to know what key personal characteristics PM candidates must demonstrate to become effective project managers.

Employees or human resources within projects are the most valued asset of any organization. Effective project human resource management (project HR management) makes it easier for that organization to gain more benefits and profits from using human resources. Project human resource management requires an integrated approach for handling employee management challenges by minimizing redundancy, reducing time waste and avoiding inefficient team communications. Managers should create the working environment in which employees are able to maximize their performance and show their best talents and skills. To handle challenges of project human resource planning and management, there are several ways or techniques, such as 1) Focusing employees, 2) Setting clear direction and 3) Establishing effective communications. Let’s view these techniques for managing project human resources in detail.