Is that easy to get in to without any securities experience?
PMP Certified in project management - what next?
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Is that easy to get in to without any securities experience?
You should be able to get in consulting side on just the project management experience. I'm sure the company you would talk with would train you on the shyt they are pushing, that said I don't think it would be too much for you to grasp and run with if you were able to study and get some relevant certs to pair with your resume.
Jean Jacket
NOPE
How often do you do WBS and how much of your planning is done through MS Project?
Dope, thats good to hear. I know the cyber security market is a place where I can get some longevity. Looking at Udemy courses in CISSP and MIS. Might get this MIS cert first.
Dont use WBS really at all, no real world experience with it but its a fairly simple concept. I use MS Project all the time to build Gantt Charts so I can work my way around it.
Jean Jacket
NOPE
Thanks.
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but frfr, PMP and CISSP - i get job offers literally every fukking day. I had to shut off my linkedin account and close my indeed account.
but frfr, PMP and CISSP - i get job offers literally every fukking day. I had to shut off my linkedin account and close my indeed account.
Check the sig.... Cali nikkaz run you nikkaz
but frfr, PMP and CISSP - i get job offers literally every fukking day. I had to shut off my linkedin account and close my indeed account.
Thats whats up. CISSP is going to be the next wave then after I crank out this MIS from Udemy. Appreciate it
Upping this thread as I justr registered for classes then realized that the application is a bear.
I know I've run at least 60-100 different projects over the 5 years. How many projects did you list in the application? How detailed were you and were you audited? I'm wondering if I can lump a lot of them together to make the application easier but I don't want to be audited.
I know I've run at least 60-100 different projects over the 5 years. How many projects did you list in the application? How detailed were you and were you audited? I'm wondering if I can lump a lot of them together to make the application easier but I don't want to be audited.
I listed about 7 or so and that was over the course of 7 years. Some projects I was working on for entire years. You dont have to be fully detailed. You just have to roughly bucket the amount of hours you spent on a project in to the different phases. Like spending 50 hours in the initiation phase, 20 hours in the planning phase, 150 hours in Monitor and Control, so on and so forth. So yeah, you can lump them together but just make sure it makes sense and that you have bosses who can vouch for you IN CASE you get audited. I heard its rare to get audited but that's only if you put together astronomical hours on a project that mathematically speaking for a calendar year wouldnt make sense.
In your case, no need to put 60-100 different projects because you just have to show you have done 4500 hours worth of project management (especially since you are taking classes), that decreases the amount of hours needed. So just try to think of your biggest projects that took a shyt ton of time and do the math. You should be fine.
Repped.
Did your projects overlap any? Did you do anything special for the descriptions?
Yeah, some projects overlapped. That's where you just have to focus on doing the math. In my case, for a chunk of my hours, I was working on two application builds for a company. One application took up about 75% of my time, the other 20% and that was over the course of 2 years. So for a 40 hour work week I just put together rough figures for the amount of time I spent on both projects. Since the majority of my time was dedicated to those projects I was close to 3,500 working hours after 2 years (Keep in mind a 40 hour work week for a year is close to 2,000 hours). I had to pull in some of my smaller projects to get to 4,500.
For your case, if you have been strictly working on projects for those 5 years, you have way more than 4,500 hours worth of project management experience. And I am sure some of that overlapped. So you should be good regardless. But I'd say the biggest takeaway you should get from this is to list your biggest projects that took up 100s or 1000s of hours. You don't want to list 50-60 projects because that'll take forever (unless you have to because you haven't had projects that lasted a long time)
Had my PMP for a few years now...
I'm actually working the RMP. I'll be taking the test in december, i'll let you know how it goes.
FWIW - I use to teach PMP so i guess it's fair to say that I have an unfair advantage
I'm actually working the RMP. I'll be taking the test in december, i'll let you know how it goes.
FWIW - I use to teach PMP so i guess it's fair to say that I have an unfair advantage
yep, CISSP is huge for management. Most job postings i see are requesting applicants to have it - especially in the government sector.
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