Where a project manager can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a project manager already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Project managers oversee the project on a daily basis and are responsible for delivering high-quality results within the identified objectives and constraints, ensuring the effective use of the allocated resources. They are responsible for risk and issue management, project communication and stakeholder management. Project managers perform the activities of planning, organising, securing, monitoring and managing the resources and work necessary to deliver specific project goals and objectives in an effective and efficient way.
Managers 68 skills on file 12 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: programme manager, 69%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- ICT project manager 51% covered · difficulty 60.8
- operations manager 49% covered · difficulty 62.6
- security manager 39% covered · difficulty 67.1
- auction house manager 36% covered · difficulty 64.3
- resource manager 35% covered · difficulty 68.1
- facilities manager 33% covered · difficulty 73.9
- gambling manager 32% covered · difficulty 73.1
- sewerage systems manager 31% covered · difficulty 70.7
- water treatment plant manager 31% covered · difficulty 70.9
- quality services manager 31% covered · difficulty 67.1
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project manager is filed under Managers, ISCO major group 1. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a project manager already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.