"We'll just get by until after the summer holiday and then see who's around." These were the words of a CIO who was plugging a gap in his project management operation with talent and services from the Project Management as a Service market. Good news for my friend who is an exper...

You need talented IT Project Managers but attracting them proves difficult. Does this sound familiar? If it does, breathe a small sigh of relief because you're not alone. IT Project Management is a candidate-driven market and many businesses are finding recruiting them can be a s...

Back at the end of 2016, it felt like I was being bombarded with articles telling me that the biggest talent challenge of the new year would be retention. I read bestmoneymoves.com's "The Top HR Challenge of 2017? Employee Retention" and Lars Schmidt Forbes' post 'Why Retention W...

Approaching the attraction of specialist IT Talent with a general recruiter can be like turning up for a chess tournament with a working knowledge of the rules of draughts. The board looks the same, you can have a play ... but do you think you'll win? No, to win, you need to know...

Every year, it seems that hiring and retaining the best talent gets harder. Especially in IT and IT Project Management where that talent now has infinitely more opportunities than ever before. I feel your pain. Say you're an IT firm and you have a best in class Project Manager, t...

~ CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY SPECIAL ~ Are you coming up against IT Project Management recruitment challenges? A friend from the construction industry recently asked me why they were struggling to recruit skilled IT Project Management talent. To be fair, it's a question that I'm asked...