Personality in Project Management Recruitment

Posted by Lindsay Scott on Jan 8, 2022 in PMChat Bloggers | Comments Off

In last year’s project management benchmark report ; it was highlighted by hiring managers that after experience and sector knowledge – personality and personal approach were the reason why they hired the project managers they did. Throughout 2013 this troubled me because ultimately hiring managers make their first decisions to bring people in for interviews based on a candidate’s CV. I think most people will agree that the CV is not the best place to try to inject too much personality – after all the document itself can’t be too long because then it just doesn’t get read. And then there is the nightmare of deciding how much personality to include in it without coming across as a bit of a jerk! No, the CV is about clearly highlighting what skills and experiences you have and what results and achievements you’ve made. Describing “how you do something” personally in your job needs a mechanism that is different to a CV. And whether you love it or loathe it, Linkedin has taken that slot in “getting across your professional personality” in the recruitment process. Just a few years ago, checking someone’s Linkedin profile in the recruitment process was morally wrong – now everyones at it.

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Personality in Project Management Recruitment