Being Interview Ready – Key for a Successful Career in Project Management:

Gone are the days when people would get recruited in a company at the junior most level and end up retiring in the same company at a senior level. Most people now start up in a particular job in a particular industry and keep switching jobs across various employment sectors throughout their career span. This also holds true in case of project management too. With fast depleting resources and cut throat competition companies across various sectors are resorting to project management to optimize the limited resources. Thus in project management for rapid career advancement you should be ready to switch companies across various industries.  However to switch over, you must have the right set of skills apart from your sound knowledge of project management. Once skill required to be successful in your career is to your skill to crack interviews. We at Sixth Dimension Learning, PMI approved Registered Training Centre in Totonto examine some of the interview facing skills and some other skills required.

Some Common Mistakes To Avoid At Interviews :

• Not Dressing Appropriately: Dress and our appearance hold a key to our personality. Often dressing too casually, can convey a wrong message of being too casual and cost us blowing up the opportunity. So it is best we are well groomed with a clean shave and also wear formals with a tie and polished shoe to covey the right message to our potential employers at the interview.

• Failing To Research About The Company And Role Being Applied For: Studies reveal that most people fail at the interview because they fail to research properly about the company, the industry and the role being applied for. With the internet accessing into information has become very easy and convenient. So it is advisable that you do a thorough research about the company, the role and the industry as a whole before you appear for your interview.

• Confused And Vague Responses To Common Questions: In any interview there are a very common set of questions like “Why should we hire you?” or “Tell us about yourself”. Many candidates overlook the obvious and stay unprepared. However if you keep yourself prepared ready for such questions would help you at all times.

• Not Looking Interested: Our body language conveys a lot about how we feel, thus leaning forward shows our level of interest. Maintaining a casual eye contact with the interviewer also may help. These are some things which are to be kept in mind at the time of the interview.

• Lying About Achievements: Often in our anxiety to prove ourselves we tend to exaggerate our past claims and work. However it is best that we stay honest about our claims. Our interviewers are all experienced and may ask follow up questions revealing the actual facts through follow up questions in case the same is not true.

• Making Up Answers: In case we do not know the answers being asked during the interview process it may be advisable to stay honest and admit to the interviewer you are not aware of the answer rather than making up what you do not know.

Apart from your skill to clear interviews you must also master the soft skills, like people skills, your presentation skills, etc, all of which are essential for you to have a successful career in Project Management.

PMP Certification – Key to your Project Management Career

The importance of Project Management has been steadily growing in the current scenario. With increasing competition globally it is but imperative for companies to focus Project Management. Project Management help companies bring out the maximum from its limited resources. It has helped companies reach much higher standards and meet deadlines and budgets which are so critical to survive in the current age of cut throat competition. With more companies focusing on Project Management, careers in Project Management continues to thrive and become more lucrative. However if you are planning to have a rewarding career in Project Management then you must have a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification. The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is the Gold Standard of Project Management Certification. It is an internationally recognized certificate recognized by Government and Commercial Organizations in more than 204 Countries. The PMP course prepares you globally and as a PMP Certified professional you would be capable of handling and managing any project irrespective of industry or geographical location and with any type of methodology followed.

Besides it has been estimated with a PMP Certification, you would earn much more than what other professionals would earn who are not having this certification. It has been noted that companies having PMP Certified Professionals also benefit a lot. It has been observed that about 1/3rd of all projects which are completed on time within the desired budget are handled by companies which have on board PMP Certified Project Managers.

Eligibility for PMP Certificate Exam:

To be eligible for taking the PMP certificate exam, a candidate needs to hold a Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent university degree and has to have at least 4500 Hours of Project Management experience. This experience must have been gathered within a six-year period prior to the application for the examination. 

PMP Certification Exam:

The certification exam has 200 multiple choice questions, which have to be completed within a time span of 4 hours. After having cleared this exam, it is needed for you to earn 60 Professional Development Units (PDUs) every 3 years for you to maintain the PMP certification.

Why Sixth Dimension Learning (SDL) , Mississauga for training for qualifying for PMP Certification exam?

Sixth Dimension Learning is a PMI approved Registered Training Centre in Mississauga, one of the best PMI Training Centres in Mississauga. In one of our earlier blogs published, we had pointed out the basic criteria important for the right choice of your right training provider. One of the most important criteria mentioned there was the training provider must be that it must be a registered with the appropriate authority. When it comes to this criterion, Sixth Dimension Learning (SDL), Mississauga is a registered with the Project Management Institute (PMI) in regard to training for PMP Certificate Exam.

The ever evolving curriculum followed at Sixth Dimension Learning (SDL) Missigua, provides you with the cutting edge for qualifying for the PMP Certification exam. Besides the faculty at SDL are very qualified and highly respected in the industry. If you are considering taking up the PMP Certification the fact that SDL has trained thousands of professionals worldwide makes for enough reason to enroll with SDL.  With SDL you could tap into to take help from the strong network in GTA who contribute towards the enhancement of Project Management and business analysis profession. For further details please visit http://sixthdimensionlearning.com.