1. 489E: Advancing Your PM Knowledge
What’s Your Goal? How Will You Get There? Where Do Credentials Fit in Your Plan?

2. Confused About How to “Break In?”
In 2007, this PMI study noted that 69% of major firms had no formal Project Management Career Paths.
Most small businesses do not post ads seeking qualified project managers. Yet they perform projects all of the time. How to explain this discrepancy?
Confused About How to “Break In?”

3. Two Keys To PM Success: Understand the Real World of PM, and Be Clear About Yourself (Intention)
You learn to be a strong project manager the same way that studies show we learn anything:
10% from coursework and training
20% from developmental relationships (What’s that? Are they easy?)
70% from challenging assignments (Continuing
challenge, self-assessment and growth)

4. Common Challenges in PM Job- Seeking and Personal Growth in Jobs