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Technology Forum

Overview

The Technology Forum was formed to create awareness of the latest state-of-the-art technologies and use of best industry practices. It is designed to not only help IT Project Managers improve technology management projects by using technology and tools to manage the projects, but to share success stories to improve innovations. The goal of the Technology Forum is to create more successful leaders in the Technology arena.

Value Statement 

The Technology Forum was formed to create awareness of the latest state-of-the-art technologies and use of best industry practices. It is designed to not only help IT Project Managers improve technology management projects by using technology and tools to manage the projects, but to share success stories to improve innovations. The goal of the Technology Forum is to create more successful leaders in the Technology arena.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsor

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Industry Resources

Technology Association of Georgia (TAG)

Healthcare Forum

Overview

The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum promotes the art and science of the project management industry best practices. This Forum provides continuing education with cutting-edge project management topics specific to the Healthcare industry, with emphasis on improving the delivery and efficiency of health services. The ultimate goal of this Forum is to share ideas, thoughts and concepts, while promoting leadership opportunities with the Healthcare project management discipline.

Value Statement

The PMI Atlanta Healthcare Forum promotes the art and science of the project management industry best practices. This forum provides continuing education with cutting-edge project management topics specific to the Healthcare industry, with emphasis on improving the delivery and efficiency of health services. ​

The ultimate goal of this forum is to share ideas, thoughts and concepts, while promoting leadership opportunities with the Healthcare project management discipline.

Special Thanks to Our Sponsor

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Industry Resources

TAG Health

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@PMIATLHealth

Governance Forum

Overview

The PMI Atlanta Governance Forum provides an opportunity for project managers to learn about governance and advanced topics, including program management and portfolio management in a small group setting of similar minded professionals.

This Forum has established a premier collaboration and networking experience for Project/Program Managers and those involved with PMOs – to share challenges, trends, leading practices, and thought leadership.

Governance practitioners typically include members from strategic, corporate, and operational management. Attendees will find this forum beneficial and should gain invaluable, just-in-time insight for existing business challenges. Please find some helpful links below for additional guidance related to governance.

Value Statement

The Governance Forum provides value to the PMI Atlanta community by offering participants:

  • Decisions frameworks to assess culture and apply optimal strategy
  • Key takeaways to “take to work tomorrow”
  • Discussion of field-tested best practices in the oversight and execution of projects, programs, and portfolios

 Special Thanks to Our Sponsor

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Frameworks

Calder Moir
COBIT 
Agile/Lean Path

Certification 

ISACA.org

Standards

ISO.org

Industry Resources

Disciplined Agile Delivery
OECD Principles of Corporate Governance
Gartner Webinars

Twitter

@PMIATLGov

Do You Want Recruiters to Find You? Career Series LinkedIn Event Event Summary

by Mike Ososki, PMP

image-5If you answer yes, Al Smith can help you do it—especially on LinkedIn. He is the expert to optimize your information so that when recruiters search there, you show up in the early pages. Mr. Smith says, “Help you get to page 1—that’s what I want for you.”

Al’s prior work was in sales management, and he authored the job search manual called HIRED! Every Employment Method, and thus became known as The HIRED! Guy. Visit his website and check out his bestselling book HIRED! Every Employment Method on Amazon. 

Recruiters constantly use LinkedIn to search for candidates. Ideally, you show up on page 1 of their search results. But even if not, always the earlier the better. This is because just like a Google search, we typically stop looking after ~1-5 pages, which can include dozens of potentially good candidates, and that’s where you want to be.

Get-FoundHow do you show up early? First, your job title and keywords are the bait to catch the recruiter fish. If they find you and you mostly line up with the job requisition/s they’re working on, their job is to get your information in front of company hiring managers and talent acquisition professionals.

LinkedIn uses “sequential weighting” to select search results. These include headline, title, keywords and their placement in your profile, recommendations, skills, groups, and more. To rank high, add keywords and acronyms in your headline—up to 220 characters. Make your headline be your desired job title. Your “About” section can be up to 2,600 characters, and descriptions for each position up to 2,000 characters. Use all 100 available skills. Just like your resume, choose your words wisely to achieve maximum early impact that is as relevant as you can make it to job description language that appeals to you.

Use a “word cloud generator” to come up with 10-25 keywords, then load your profile and resume with them. Use words and phrases that recruiters may likely use to search and find people like you. Don’t try to game the system with techniques like excessive word repetition. Spell out poorly searchable acronyms like Project Manager vs. PM, Information Technology vs. IT, and Human Resources vs. HR. To be found, your job is to out-SEO your competition. To test your searchability, search for yourself using Boolean, eg: OR, AND, and quotes.

On the cautious side, Mr. Smith recommends that females especially sign up for a Google phone #, to keep your cell phone number private.

Stadning-out-from-crowdResume-wise, show as much work history as you’re comfortable with, so that the algorithm has more content to place you higher. Maybe go back at least ~15 years. Don’t drastically change your resume for each job, but be sure to list “core competencies” vertically in your LinkedIn profile. Also create a one-page cover letter that reflects the job description keywords. The computers read everything all the time.

When job-searching, go as narrow focused as possible, then create a “value proposition deck” to tell your story partially in images. Use Pixabay to find free images for your profile cover photo. You can use both paragraphs and bullet points to appeal to both preferences.

Al declares, “I want all of you to have a brand,” and to “stand out from the crowd.”

Georgia Tech and PMI Atlanta Hosted Professional Development Day

Tuesday night, PMI Atlanta and Georgia Tech's College of Lifetime Learning teamed up to provide a Professional Development Session reviewing tips and tricks for passing the PMP exam the first time, fundamentals of risk management, and how to manage conflict. Special thanks to our instructors Joe Sisto, Sarv Kohli, and Kizmet Charles for facilitating our dynamic breakout sessions.PMI-031

The evening began with dinner and networking with a special guest joining us - BUZZ! Attendees had a variety of boxed meals and desserts to choose from as they mingled and exchanged their LinkedIn QR codes. View our Photo Gallery for photos from the event.

We began the program at 6pm with an overview and introductions of our speakers by Georgia Tech's Academic Program Director Chris Carter. Then we formed our groups and moved to our breakout sessions. Each group brought insightful questions and observations from their PM experience which now has Mr. Carter's wheels turning to incorporate more into the course content for Georgia Tech.

Whether the attendee was an aspiring or seasoned PM, everyone came away from the sessions with new takeaways and fresh ideas to implement in their projects.

PMI Atlanta members are able to enjoy a 10% discount in select courses from Georgia Tech. Read more to learn about their programs.