Headway Recruitment: Project Management

You should hire a Project Manager when your organisation is embarking on a big, new project or a significant transformation, such as updating systems and workflows to take you from SME to a corporation.

When launching a new venture, your permanent or temporary Project Manager will be more likely to be able to help if you have specific, measurable and achievable goals. For example, it’s not enough to want your business to grow or develop a new product without knowing why.

If you need to hire a Project Manager to help a team transition smoothly from one way of working to another, they need to fulfil this goal through three process stages: planning, managing, and reinforcement.

Good Project Managers need to react quickly, solve problems and teach others. Therefore, if you need to hire a Project Manager, you need an organised, focused, diplomatic and methodical person.

Project Managers act as leaders to prevent workers from getting distracted, so they need good people skills and the ability to communicate effectively. You should seek to hire a Project Manager who is experienced in keeping a department on track while making use of all available talent without creating frustration.

Additionally, Project Managers should have a great understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, as well as insight into the strengths and weaknesses of others.

They should also understand the task and have good prior industry knowledge while being able to track, disseminate and interpret information vital to a project.