lobell:


This your username sha...does not leave much to the imagination.

Newmum0615:
Lol. No
wahala.

Jbelieve:


Hi Salford could you please explain a bit more on the bold sentence and please state some companies that are project management consultancies. Thanks.

maternal:
Don't know if this is the right thread for it, but the federal government is trying a new immigration pilot project to help gets immigrants into rural communities. Perhaps this may be good for people who can't get or afford the skilled worker route ? A nice read.


https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/hussen-immigration-rural-pilot-1.4990875

joo2018:
Read it and lots of the comments from the CPC/PPC guys on the thread.

Execution is key. If they can get it right, it is a great idea.

Godisincontrol:


Loving your diary

salford1:

Yes. Pmp is more accepted in Canada/N.America. Very few organization will list prince2 as a substitute to Pmp. We accept both in my place of work, but a candidate with a prince2 will get bumped for one with pmp when it comes down to one person getting the pm job.
Most core project management positions will not ask for a particular degree. Note "core PM positions" e.g like a PM team for an IT project or PM team for lean improvement projects; however, some construction or engineering jobs or IT jobs will still require the prerequisite engineering or computer science degree, and Pmp ceetification will just be an added bonus. These kind of roles will often encounter projects on their jobs, but their engineering skills and regulatory requirements is of more importance than PM skills.

So whether your degree matters or not will depend on the kind of job you are looking for. There are project management consultancies that send contractors to work term projects in companies all over Canada, for this types of jobs, your degree title would hardly matter.

snoop4dem:
Hi Guys, does anyone know a secret to calling CIC and actually speaking with an agent. I have repeatedly called 1-888-242-2100 and followed the voice prompts based on this thread and also +16139444000 for Global Affairs Canada also following the voice prompts and it has never been successful. I get to the end where I should talk to an agent and they tell me every time that all their agents are busy and the call drops. I will appreciate pointers from anyone who has successfully spoken to an agent at CIC before.

Saintp:

Still on project management, I read on conestoga website that 92% of their students on their project management graduate certificate program got jobs within 6 months after graduation in the last 3 years. Could this be real? Or one of those gimmicks. Is project management really a hot cake out there in reality?
@Salford @SixSigma

jelmusboy:
My thoughts and prayers with Winnipeg and Saskatoon residents. If you have friends and relatives there, reach out to them cos this is a trying time for them.

#HarshWinter

salford1:

I don't know much about Conestoga. All I know is that it's in Ontario.
As per Conestoga stats: 92% PM related roles, or 92% related and unrelated jobs...?
If it's 92% PM related jobs, then that's a good record.
In my opinion, PM is good and can be a hot cake if you have good experience to back it up, usually 5 years and more of related experience.

joo2018:
Lol. And here I thought my mind was so dirty it needed some strong bleach.

salford1:

I don't know much about Conestoga. All I know is that it's in Ontario.
As per Conestoga stats: 92% PM related roles, or 92% related and unrelated jobs...?
If it's 92% PM related jobs, then that's a good record.
In my opinion, PM is good and can be a hot cake if you have good experience to back it up, usually 5 years and more of related experience.

lobell:


But think am na...soft and moist at the same time...there are very few things that have those qualities.

Ifeoma77:

Actually those two words are very popular in the baking community. Those are words that are always used to describe cakes. And that's what I've always thought of whenever I see the moniker.
Google those words and your results page will be filled with all things cake.
For you to interpret it into za oza room, you are a bad shild

lobell:


Ifeoma lemme abeg...I like soft and moist and I'm sure most people, including you do too. You don carry am go cake side now like our politicians...that's how I was watching a baker present a chocolate cake as decadent. I was like "who no like better thing?" like soft and moist...(a shiver just went down my spine).

salford1:

It basically means a contractor would be sent to work in a different province or within the same province for a project. The project could be 1 month long or 2 years long. Apart from the likes of PwC, IBM, KPMG, there are other smaller consultants that focus solely on PM and Business Analysis, and are well established across Canada. A good one that I know of is Paradigm Consulting Group out of Winnipeg in Manitoba or PMX out of Toronto. I am sure there would be tons of those smaller consulting firms across Canada.

Ifeoma77:

LMAO Chai!! You are a case
I maintain my stance joor, soft and moist and even decadent are perfect adjectives for cakes.
Think of it logically sef, what you're thinking of doesn't really answer to the soft and moist description. As a writer, if I am asked to choose two words to describe that, neither soft nor moist would make the cut. There are other adjectives that come to mind...

Jbelieve:


Hi Salford thank you for the response. Please bear with my questions. Still on the project management, there are different aspects like IT PM, construction PM etc. So for these consultancies like E&Y, PWC, KPMG etc do they have need for all types of project manager or different consultancies with different PMs? And irrespective of your background when you do pmp or prince2 does this enable you work with any consultancy? Also do you know consultancy that construction professionals can work? Thank you.

Ifeoma77:

LMAO Chai!! You are a case
I maintain my stance joor, soft and moist and even decadent are perfect adjectives for cakes.
Think of it logically sef, what you're thinking of doesn't really answer to the soft and moist description. As a writer, if I am asked to choose two words to describe that, neither soft nor moist would make the cut. There are other adjectives that come to mind...

joo2018:
Ify! Issorai, let find out who has the dirtiest mind.

Jbelieve:

Please could you share the link where you got this statistics.

Jbelieve:


Hi Salford thank you for the response. Please bear with my questions. Still on the project management, there are different aspects like IT PM, construction PM etc. So for these consultancies like E&Y, PWC, KPMG etc do they have need for all types of project manager or different consultancies with different PMs? And irrespective of your background when you do pmp or prince2 does this enable you work with any consultancy? Also do you know consultancy that construction professionals can work? Thank you.

joo2018:
Hmm, a project manager is a project manager is a project manager. Your technical background (mech. eng, civil eng, finance, HR, etc) may make you however more suitable for one industry/firm than another.

Project management is a discipline on its own. PMP is based on the PMBOK standard and is applicable to most if not all industries. Prince2 is a methodoloy and is preferred by some IT firms.

conebeam:

Hi Blessing, for those of us that used IQAS, how do we send our transcripts to NCA. Does the institution send it directly? Or do we have to go through WES?

lobell:


You are right! Before they label someone terrorist. Actually there is a story about this somewhere on nairaland I think. I can't recall the details anymore but the family used a BDC and were arrested at POE for laundering money for terrorists or something along that line. Their case is still in court in Canada.

blessings2017: