Board 8 > Any project management people in here? How did you get experience?

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If everything goes according to plan then I'll have a master's degree in health information management in about 4 1/2 months. I took my elective classes classes in IT project management and in change leadership because I'd hoped that the knowledge would get me into a department that would in turn get me the experience I needed to move into a project management position.

That opportunity really hasn't happened yet, and I've found out that my company wants people with a PMP certification for those positions. I'm a little frustrated, but I'm also not ready to give up.

The certification requires roughly 2 years of full time experience in project management. I have no real experience in the field, just some classroom studies. I'm not even sure if my studies would count because my degree is entirely online.

So, those of you with a PMP: how do you get a foot in the door? What counts toward the learning requirements? Finally, how do you record all of that to meet the requirements?

I tried going into project management before and it's such a hard thing to get into because project management jobs require experience you can't get because you're not hired due to lack of experience.

That said, I'd really like to move on from what I'm doing now and actually use my project management skills.

So tag, I guess.
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All the PMs I've worked with started in entry level tech jobs (coding, testing, data entry) but were too incompetent to do even that so they got moved to a PM position
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foolm0r0n posted...

All the PMs I've worked with started in entry level tech jobs (coding, testing, data entry) but were too incompetent to do even that so they got moved to a PM position

foolm0r0n posted...

All the PMs I've worked with started in entry level tech jobs (coding, testing, data entry) but were too incompetent to do even that so they got moved to a PM position

foolm0r0n posted...

All the PMs I've worked with started in entry level tech jobs (coding, testing, data entry) but were too incompetent to do even that so they got moved to a PM position

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yeah IME "project manager" is basically "can't actually do anything we need but we don't wanna fire them so let's put them in charge of making schedules or whatever"
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