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Saturday, January 24, 2015

8) Can recent college graduates expect to be project managers right away? What is a typical career path for a project manager?

No. Project Management is a skill best cultivated and mastered through on-the-job experience and real-life scenario project situations. Good project managers not only know the fundamental lessons learned but also acquire the discipline through experience. Job description for a project manager can vary by industry and by organization, but most project managers perform similar tasks regardless of these differences. 

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  1. No, is correct.

    There are a number of different lesser jobs that directly contribute to the project, and provide close access to those already leading projects, that are more likely to be immediately available to the new college grad.

    Such as: project coordinator, project analyst, assistant project manager, junior project manager, and any individual team or section leader within a project.

    I'm not finding any one "typical career path" example, though the jobs I mentioned above, as well as a number of other similarly titled occupations, are easy enough to find with a cursory Google search.

    The most likely course of action for any new college graduate pursuing a career in project management, will be as the member of a team within a project, or a junior position in leadership where they will be tutored and mentored while they build up the appropriate skills and experience to ultimately take over a project of their own.

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  2. 8) Using the internet, research the average salary of a PM in South Florida. Is this for an experienced project manager? Which sites (URL) did you use to find average salaries?Missing second part of the question. Pf. Forman

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