July 15 was World Youth Skills Day, and Project Management Institute regional youth lead Joanna Baidu answered some questions.
More than 200,000 students graduate from SA universities every year. What, in your opinion, should the youth be aware of when entering the job market?
Post the pandemic, we are seeing businesses quickly move away from simply being “operational” to executing “projects” to deliver value to all stakeholders. This points to the advent of the project economy. In the project economy, talent managers seek skills and behaviours needed to succeed in a world that is increasingly driven around projects.
All sectors of the economy and business need project managers, like utilities, engineering, mining, construction, IT, the public sector, financial services, supply chain and logistics, and communication and marketing, among others. Even an editor of a publishing house is a project manager as he or she needs to deliver the newspaper on time every morning.
The global economy needs 25-million new project professionals by 2030. To close the talent gap, 2.3-million people will need to enter PMOE every year just to keep up with demand – this includes project managers and all change-makers.Think about the skills that you have now and the job you want in 12-24 months and then:
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