This is a "special" episode of The PM Podcast in which we announce the giveaway of 20 books.
Peter Taylor (The Lazy Project Manager)[Update: the website is no longer available, so we removed the link] wrote a new book called The Lazy Blogger, focusing on various stories from his project management career. This book is for sale on Peter's website and costs £3.50 [Update: the website is no longer available, so we removed the link] out of which £3.00 are donated to the UK Cancer Research.
We have purchased 20 copies of this book in support of Peter's effort and we are giving away this book to our listeners. 10 copies go to our paying premium subscribers and 10 copies go to the free listeners.
To participate in this giveaway please go to The PM Podcast Facebook Fan Page, look for the 20 books giveaway announcement and leave a comment. The winners will be drawn on January 31, 2011.
This episode is not about project management. It's about how to find your next project management job.
This is a premium episode. And normally, that means that only our paying, premium subscribers can listen to it. But we have decided that for a second time in just 2 weeks we are giving everyone access to this premium episode.
Why? Because this episode is once again not about project management per se, but it is about job searching strategies. In particular, it is a discussion with Career Coach Tim Tyrell-Smith (www.timsstrategy.com) about a presentation he recently gave called: Career Networking with a Purpose. And because there are so many PMs out there looking for a job, I found that it's important to let everyone hear this and help them find a job.
This episode is not about project management. It's about how to find your next project management job.
It looks like the economy is recovering. After a couple of years of going down there are now many encouraging signals that indicate an upswing. And that means... there are once again more projects going to be started and companies will start hiring project managers.
If you remember, a few months ago we had a group of recruiting experts on the program who gave us their job search insights. Because I know that so many project managers are looking for a job right now, I decided to invite one of these experts, Tim Tyrell-Smith (www.timsstrategy.com) back onto our program to present to us "30 ideas of a successful job search". Tim collected and published these ideas as part of a book with the same name. But don't worry! We didn't bring onto the program to sell you his book, we brought him here to talk about his ideas. The book itself is free.
You'll hear in the interview that while Tim's book is free he also offers a real paper-based version. And as always... we are giving away 2 copies. One of these copies automatically goes to our premium listeners and the other one is up for grabs for anyone. Are you interested? No problem... just go to www.facebook.com/pmpodcast and look for the announcement with the book giveaway and just add a comment. Anyone who leaves a comment on this book giveaway notice gets a chance to win. And obviously 1 copy is reserved for our premium listeners.
Which brings us to the winners of our last book giveaway: We had two copies of Elizabeth Harrin's book "Social Media for Project Managers" to give away. And the winners are...
Kareem Shaker was selected at random from among all the people who left a comment on facebook
And from among our premium listeners the lucky winner is... Josephine Brookes from Surrey in England.
This is part 2 of our 2011 Predictions podcast, for which we have invited 7 guests who are giving us their predictions for project management in 2011. They are in order of appearance:
If you are a regular listener of The PM Podcast, then you know that at the end of the year we always produce a humorous "bloopers" episode, where you can listen in to all those funny moments when things went wrong and nothing worked the way it should have. Unfortunately, we have done this for 5 years now and we're really getting good at not making too many of these bloopers. So in an effort to bring you something new, we decided to create a podcast with predictions from project managers around the world.
We invited 7 guests onto this and next week's episode to give us their predictions for project management in 2011. They are in order of appearance:
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