Exciting New Job Inquiry
Job: Project Manager for a large wireless comapny in Bellevue, WA
Compensation: $65-80 per hour depending on experience and availability
Hours: 8-5 PST
Description: I won't put this here because I'm considering a different position with this company after my current gig is up at the end of Nov.
Minimum Requirements:
(text emphasis added by me but otherwise unchanged)1) MS Office Tools (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Visio)
2) Sound understanding of infrastructure and software development project lifecycles within company.
3) Ability to effectively manage time, prioritize work, multi-task across many assignments with no direction.
4) Proven experience in producing results with varying requirements and ambiguous directives.
5) Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
I literally laughed myself out of my chair at home after bullet number 4. Decent pay, but no friggin' way. Talk about a recipe for failure. I couldn't believe they actually put that in the job description but at least management is being honest. There is no way to win in that job. I've been a project manager and managed them and let me tell ya, they are really there only for blame. If a project goes well, the executives never hear about it genrerally don't care. If the project fails, it's the project manager's fault and the manager is spared.
This might have been a slightly more accurate description:
Candidate will manage a highly technical project of which he or she knows nothing about. The candidate will be responsible for, yet have no requisite authority of a group of engineers who do not understand said project either. Candidate will be humiliated on weekly conference calls and meetings with executives who do not understand said project. Upon failing to deliver the unreasonable, under funded and vague deliverables in a timely fashion, the candidate agrees to take all blame for failure.
Thanks but no thanks dear large wireless carrier based in Germany. That's a damn funny job description though!
