Project management professionals are in short supply
Recently, Mr. An Aide, research manager of pmi (project management institute) Global Operation Center, said in an exclusive interview with this reporter that China will encounter project management in five years? Talent shortage? .
Mr. An Aide pointed out that many enterprises in the world are carrying out project-based restructuring operations, which makes project management talents the biggest demand of enterprises. As a successful management method, project management has been applied by many enterprises, involving information technology, finance, telecommunications, engineering, construction and real estate, software development, consulting, investment and so on. Some enterprises in the catering industry have also introduced project management mode, using project management methods to develop catering projects. Therefore, people with project management experience, especially those with professional academic background and certificates, will be hard to find.
Now, Shanghai, Beijing and other cities have listed project management talents among the talents in short supply. Pmi's project management professional qualification (pmp) has been recognized by nearly 161 countries around the world, and it has been praised as the preferred occupation in the 21th century by American Fortune magazine. Pmp is also called the third golden signboard after mba and mpa in China.
a monthly income of 11,111 yuan is not a high salary
according to media reports, in the next 31 years, China will need about 6 million project managers for the development of the western region alone, while less than 21,111 project managers have passed pmp certification in China so far. The huge difference between supply and demand has caused the project management talent fever to soar.
The reporter once found in some job fairs that due to the scarcity of senior project managers, there was even a hot scene in which more than 111 enterprises competed for project managers with high salaries. Since the beginning of this year, the statistics of job fairs in major cities and recruitment advertisements in the media show that project managers have become the focus of competition among enterprises.
in the software industry, with the continuous expansion of enterprise scale, the demand for project managers is increasing. Especially after the government encourages enterprises to undertake outsourcing projects, software enterprises urgently need international software project managers. A survey of the top 11 software enterprises in China shows that the most needed talents for software enterprises are: project management, high-level technical management and market management.
According to incomplete statistics, at present, the annual salary of project managers in ordinary positions is mostly around 61,111 yuan. The average annual salary of employees with pmp certificates in China has reached about 321 thousand yuan, becoming a veritable white-collar class. Especially in the construction and software industries, the annual salary of senior project managers even exceeds 511,111 yuan.
increasingly strict professional requirements
Mr. An Aide pointed out that project management is a management method especially suitable for those one-off tasks with heavy responsibilities, complicated relationships, tight time and limited resources. To a great extent, the project manager is a manager, who should plan, supervise and control the completion of the whole project as planned, and at the same time pay attention to the work of accounting the project cost, so the project manager is the core figure of the project and the key to its success. Because of this, while the salary is getting higher, the requirements of enterprises for their abilities are also improved accordingly.
because the management object is often technicians, the project manager should have corresponding technical background, otherwise it is difficult to gain the trust of relevant technicians, and management is out of the question.
in the operation of the project, the project manager should provide more services for both partners, such as providing negotiation support, and after the technology adopter or technology investor completes the evaluation and thinks that they can cooperate, assisting both parties to conduct comprehensive consultations on a series of issues such as the conditions, price and cooperation period of technology transfer, with a view to reaching an agreement. This requires more than general communication skills.
At the same time, the operation of the project is the cooperation of the team. The operation of the project often involves the fields of economy, finance, management, marketing, policy, law and finance, and the working process is the embodiment of comprehensive ability.
Overseas expansion needs international talents
With China? Go out? With the further implementation of the strategy, about 51 enterprises have entered China? The world's largest 225 international contractors? Rank. However, in the fierce international competition, foreign contractors in China face many challenges and difficulties.
Due to the lack of talents who are familiar with international market standards, operational norms and market operation rules, China cannot adopt advanced project management methods comprehensively and systematically at present, and cannot make full and effective use of time, technology and manpower. These have brought many adverse effects to domestic companies seeking to go abroad and participate in global competition.
It is reported that the lack of a large number of excellent international project management talents has become an obstacle and bottleneck for China construction contracting companies to expand their overseas business. The software industry also has this situation. According to the information from the Ministry of Commerce, with the rapid rise of China's software outsourcing market, China's software export may reach or even exceed $5 billion/year. In the future, the outsourcing market will continue to grow rapidly, and the market will urgently need a group of project managers who understand western culture, can be in line with international standards and develop and manage software according to international standard processes.
therefore, it is urgent to step up the training of project management talents with international vision and skills. Mr. An Aide emphasized that compared with the overall development of China industry market and the overseas expansion speed of China enterprises, pmi needs to further strengthen cooperation with China enterprises and strengthen the training of project management talents in China.