Immigration and Citizenship Funded Seminar on Education - Prof. Peivand Pirouzi - Career competencies in Canada - Project Management Skills

1. CAREER COMPETENCIES IN
CANADA
PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Prepared and Presented by:
Prof. Peivand Pirouzi, Ph.D., MBA, CCPE, Cert. Psychiatry
Lead Education and Career Mentor
http://www.linkedin.com/in/pirouzi
Prof. Peivand Pirouzi, 2019

2. Universal Employability
Skills
1. Leadership/Management Skills
2. Communication Skills
3. Teamwork Skills
4. Self-Motivated/Ability to work with little or no supervision
5. Problem-Solving/Decision-Making
6. Dedication to Work
7. Hardworking
8. Work Ethic
9. Planning/Organizing Skills
10. Technical Skills
11. Dependability/Reliability/Responsibility
12. Adaptability
13. Availability/Flexibility
14. Honesty/Integrity/Morality - Character Counts!
15. Computer/Technical Skills
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3. Universal Employability
Skills
13. Self Presentation Skills
14. Multi-Tasking Skills
15. Positive Attitude/Motivation/Energetic
16. Self-Confidence
17. Leadership/Management Skills
18. Multicultural Sensitivity/Awareness
19. Loyalty
20. Professionalism
21. Willingness to Learn
22. Customer Service Skills
23. Common Sense
24. Interpersonal Abilities
25. Creativity and Reasoning Skills
26. Project Management Skills
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4. Employability Characteristics
 1. Positive Attitude - Do not criticize others.
 2. Cooperative - Shows respect for employer.
 3. Accepting and using Feedback- Shows you
want to learn and are willing to improve.
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5.  4. Flexibility - Accept change and adapt to new
situation.
 5. Life-long learning - Able to learn new skills
(Regulations, Administration, Registration,
Communication).
 6. Leadership - Able to make decisions and solve
problems. Shows others respect and people want to
work with you.
Employability Characteristics
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6. How to Build Employability Skills?
 Set Educational Goals - Create a plan to get
necessary certificates for becoming qualified
to apply for jobs.
 Be Active in networking – attend Events, Fairs,
Team sports, and more.
 Participate In Some Form of Community
Service - Dedicate your time and energy
toward improving the community.
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7. Strategy for getting your next job interviews
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8. What is a “Project?”
A series of activities and tasks that
 Have a specific objective to be
completed within certain specifications;
 Have defined start and end dates;
 Have funding limits (if applicable);
 Consume resources (i.e., money,
people, & equipment)
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9. What is a “Project?”
A series of activities and tasks that
have
 SCOPE
 TIME
 Have funding limits (if applicable);
 Consume resources (i.e., money,
people, & equipment)
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10. What is a “Project?”
A series of activities and tasks that
have
 SCOPE
 TIME
 RESOURCES
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11. Project Triangle
SCOPESCOPE
RESOURCESRESOURCES
TIMETIME
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12. Project Triangle
SCOPESCOPE
RESOURCESRESOURCES
TIMETIME
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13. Two Main Components
 Planning
 Creating, then fine tuning,
the overall project plan
 Monitoring
 Tracking & reporting progress
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14. Measurements of Project
Success
 Within specifications
 Within allotted time period
 Within the budgeted costs
 Accepted by the customer/user
 Minimal and mutual scope changes
 Within corporate culture & without
disturbing organizational workflow
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15. Project Manager’s Role
 Responsible for coordinating and
integrating activities across
multiple and functional lines
 Understand operations of line
organizations
 Familiar with technology
 Master if in R&D activities
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16. What’s in the Successful
Project Manager’s Toolbox?
 Strong communication skills
 Strong interpersonal skills
 Ability to
 balance technical and managerial
functions;
 overcome organizational constraints;
 cope with and survive risks
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17. Ten Specific Skills
 Team Building
 Leadership
 Conflict Resolution
 Technical Expertise
 Planning
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18. Ten Specific Skills
 Organizing
 Entrepreneurship
 Administration
 Management support
 Resource allocation
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19. Project Managers
Manage
 Engineering
 Procurement
 Construction
 Finance
 Cost engineering
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20. Project Managers
Manage
 Schedule
 Environmental considerations
 Regulatory requirements and law
 Inflation & cost escalations
 Labor and client relations
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21. Management Skills
 Human behavior and
interpersonal relationships
 Psychology
 Organizational behavior
 Sociology
 Communications
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22. Project Manager’s
Responsibilities
 Planning agent
 Overall and summary
 NOTNOTdetailed planning
 Functional or line managers
 Resolve conflicts
 Make tradeoffs
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23. “Planning Architect”
defines
 Complete tasks
 Resource requirements
 Major timetable milestones
 End-item quality and reliability
requirements
 Performance measurements
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24. System/Product
Lifecycle
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25. CAREER COMPETENCIES IN
CANADA
PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Prepared and Presented by:
Prof. Peivand Pirouzi, Ph.D., MBA, CCPE, Cert. Psychiatry
Lead Education and Career Mentor
http://www.linkedin.com/in/pirouzi
Prof. Peivand Pirouzi, 2019