When it comes to project management and the future of your career developing and maintaining those professional relationships can be a tricky but very necessary step. You can spend weeks, if not months, working with the same team of people as part of a project team and then you all go your own separate ways. Whether you move on to another role in the same organisation or want to look for a new project management role then any network that you have created of people within the field of project management can be a vial source of help in looking for your next role.
Whether you are attending courses to top up your project management skills or networking with people in the same industry via social media platforms there are some great tools out there that you really should be using to their full potential.
Training courses
Training courses are not just attended by those people who are quite new to the project management role and looking to improve on their skills, they are often a great place to find people who have been in project management for a while. With project management constantly changing it is really important to keep not only your skills up to speed but also see what changes are happening within the industry. This makes them a really good place to talk to others who work in project management and share contact details that might just lead to future opportunities.
Seminars
As part of your professional development and in order to keep up with new advances in project management it is a good idea to attend industry related seminars. Whether these seminars occur over the course of just one day or several days they are a very good way to network with others who work in the same field. They are also a great way of seeing what opportunities might be available or coming up in the very near future. This is another reason that so many people actually attend seminars, it is as much about what they learn as who they meet and the prospects that might bring them in the future.
Networking event
As the name would imply these are exactly as they sound. Networking events offer a great opportunity to network with others who work in project management. Everyone is there for the same reason, there might be some people who are looking for their next project management role and others who are looking for their next project manager or team members who has particular skills to add to their newest project.
Parallel Project Training recommend that no matter what stage you are at with your it is really important to ensure that you are building up that all important network. Word of mouth and personal recommendation can help you move from one role to the next and networking really is one of the best ways of achieving this.
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