The Project Management Office Toolkit

Hiring Project Managers

Promoting from within is one way to select project managers, but you may not find enough qualified or willing candidates. In that case, you will need to go to the market. Hiring a project manager is no different from hiring any other senior person, and, as in any hiring process, you will need a set of questions and appropriate responses. Here is a list of sample statements and questions that you may want to pose to candidates to determine whether or not they are suitable. These questions are, of course, in addition to any other criteria that your organization imposes in its hiring.

Tell me about one of your successful projects.

With this question, you want to find out what the candidate did to ensure success. The best ...