Me as project manager
About 10 year ago I was working in London as an elearning developer, a good job considering I had no real programming or graphic or instructional design skills. Always fearful of being replaced by someone who actually knew the job, I applied for a job as project manager, changing three of my past jobs to say project manager on my cv and that I knew prince 2. But this is not about lying, it is about unsuitability.
I got the job, a huge semi-government IT shitfuck. I was put in charge of several million pound production projects all running concurrently, including managing both public and private sector teams.
Now, if I am honest about my personality profile, it would be diametrically opposite to that of a good project manager.
I am bone lazy, very very disorganised, pay no attention to details, take no notes at any meetings, in fact I'll happily play civilization on my laptop while occasionally faking attention if I think no one can see my screen, have no actual project management skills to speak of and just a rudimentary grasp of the terminology. I don't follow up on anything or check peoples progress, and my main interest each day was securing a free newspaper and checking the dumpsters out the back to see if any furniture of equipment worth taking home had been left there. Still, I got on well with my boss as we both liked cricket.
( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 6 Sep 2012, 17:03, 3 replies)

Fucknuts.
I've worked as a project manager and I know Prince2 and I can't get a project job (to save me from my current, interminably dull operations role) for love nor money.

I can only assume that know nothing tossers like you have queered the pitch so that all project recruiters are now interested in is whether you've done precisely the role they're hiring for with someone else.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 7 Sep 2012, 12:37, closed)

yes, I'M the reason you can't get a job

( cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sat 8 Sep 2012, 1:53, closed)

Perhaps a little unfair
I just got a PM job without any job titles stating "project manager", hell it can be a little difficult to work out they're even IT jobs from the titles...

You'll find that dodgy recruitment agencies edit your job titles *anyway*... Damn them.
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Sun 9 Sep 2012, 22:05, closed)