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Project Management
Project Management
Do you like being at the center of things? Helping people keep organized and on track as you continually create something new while successfully accomplishing big goals and delivering results? In a project management career, you’ll work alongside team members from the initial idea to the finished product. And project managers work in virtually every field – leading hospitals through the creation of new patient producers, developing the latest software update, building 40-story high-rises, or producing the latest Netflix special.
Meet Lovy, a project manager and telecommunications engineer who has led global initiatives for Airbnb and Amazon.
Overview1
$116,000
Median salary2
16.5 million
Number of jobs in 2020
33%
Job growth over next 10 years
Jobs and education
4-year degree and certificate in PMP:
- Work with your team to define the scope and schedule to build a new state-of-the-art airport.
- Manage the budget and ensure the necessary resources are available to create a new app that monitors a user’s health.
- Keep all project partners and clients up to date on the latest developments as your team builds a solar farm to deliver clean energy to a nearby city.
- Watch out for potential risks, trouble shoot problems, and ensure everything is working as your team delivers a new system-wide safety protocol to keep your network secure.
Real world projects
Reimaging Where We Work
Back in March of 2020, many of us thought it would only be a few short weeks until we were all back to normal. Instead, the pandemic has ushered in a new ideas about how and where we work. Today’s project managers are looking at what we learned and re-thinking today’s workplace.
Read more about how companies are reimagining work.
A Floating City
This idea may sound far-fetched, but city leaders in the Maldives are moving forward. With sea level rise expected to submerge 77% of the archipelago’s land mass by 2100 they are working hard to build a sustainable future.
