Building and Enhancing your Career in Project Management
In this FREE course, Ricardo shares his learnings about what it takes to build and enhance your project management career.
Watch Promo Enroll in CourseIn this FREE Online course, Ricardo uses his experience in project management to share some of his thoughts on how to build and enhance your opportunities for a successful career in Project Management.
In 15 lessons covering 2 hours of course and supporting materials, Ricardo is honest and straightforward, explaining what is to be a project manager. He goes from the different names and titles to how he sees the three main "personas" in the project management career and how they relate to formal education, certification, and experience.
In the course, he also discusses your CV, the interview process, how to behave and promote yourself on social media, and how ethics and honesty shape your success.
The course was developed as part of his work to support his colleagues globally to find the same joy and happiness he found in his 25 years of experience as a project manager and advocate for the profession. His initiative started in 2020 with the release of the What Matters Series on his Youtube Channel, which includes this free online courses and other works like the scholarship program on his online school.
The course was recorded in English with subtitles in English, Brazilian Portuguese (Português do Brasil), Spanish (Español), Arabic (عربى) and Simplified Chinese (中文).
What is covered?
The full course has 15 lessons covering 2 hours of content.
At the end of the course you will be able to:
- Understand what it means to be a project manager
- Learn the difference between a project manager's job and other related jobs
- Understand the three "personas" in project management
- Learn how to craft your CV and highlight your profile based on your seniority in project management
- Learn how to get the much-desired "experience"
- Understand the relative value of certifications
- Prepare yourself for the job interview
- Understand the requirements to work internationally as a Project Manager
- Reinforce the relevance of ethics and honesty to shape your career and success
What people have to say the course
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Course Curriculum
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Start1.1 - Why Did I Create This Course about Careers in Project Management (1:54)
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Preview1.2 - What Does It Mean To Be a Project Manager? (3:35)
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Start1.3 - Not Every Position Advertised as "Project Manager" is an Actual Project Manager Position (7:07)
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Start1.4 - Project Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Program Director: The Challenges of Labels (8:31)
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PreviewRicardo Vargas Bio (Optional) (7:11)
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StartPodcast (Optional) - Suggested 5 Minutes Podcast Episodes Covering principles and other related topics
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StartVideo - What Matters Series - Episode 1: Passion (Optional)
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StartVideo - What Matters Series - Episode 2: Options (Optional)
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Start2.1 - The Three Project Manager "Personas" (15:47)
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Start2.2 - Do Certifications, Degrees and Courses Really Matter? (9:50)
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Preview2.3 - How to Achieve What Matters Most: Experience (13:48)
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Start2.4 - Working Internationally as a Project Manager (8:24)
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StartPodcast (Optional) - Suggested 5 Minutes Podcast Episodes Covering principles and other related topics
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StartVideo - What Matters Series - Episode 3: Roadmap
"“Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values."
- Peter F. Drucker
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Your Instructor
Passionate about transforming ideas into action, Ricardo Vargas is a chief advocate in the project economy. Specializing in implementing innovative global initiatives, capital projects and product development, Ricardo has directed dozens of projects across industries and continents, managing more than $20 billion in global initiatives over the past 25 years.
Ricardo shares his expertise with millions of professionals around the globe through his “5 Minutes Podcast,” which he’s hosted since 2007. He has written 16 books on project management, risk and crisis management, and transformation, which have been translated into six languages and sold more than half a million copies. His influence on the sector was affirmed when he became the first Latin American to be elected Chairman of the Project Management Institute.
More than two decades ago, he founded Macrosolutions, a global consulting firm with international operations in energy, infrastructure, IT, oil and finance.
His work as a venture capitalist and entrepreneur in artificial intelligence, blockchain, big data, chatbots and machine learning resulted in tools and products that have revolutionized how users bring agility and agile management into project management software.
Between 2016 and 2020, Ricardo directed the Brightline Initiative, a Project Management Institute think tank bringing together leading organizations into a coalition dedicated to helping executives bridge the expensive, unproductive gap between strategic design and delivery.
Prior to his work with Brightline, Ricardo was director of the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Infrastructure and Project Management Group, leading more than 1,000 projects and $1.2 billion in humanitarian and development projects.
Ricardo holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Federal Fluminense University in Brazil and an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering, a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
You can check his full bio here.