One Job to Rule Them All!
80% of project management work will be taken over by AI by 2030 . While this Gartner finding sounds ominous, you should read the sentence again to see that it is saying work (or tasks) and not jobs. Project Managers will need to adjust and deal with new technologies for sure but the demand for someone to be responsible and lead teams to completion on time and under budget will only grow. For the last 8 years I have been working in the IT recruiting sector. One of the hottest roles in that time has been (and continues to be) Project Manager. The more jobs I came across and the more I learned about what a PM does, the more suspicious I became that the skills of a Project Manager are likely useful for many other jobs as well (thus the title to this article). So I tried a little Google experiment, "Do _____ jobs need project management skills?" filling in the blank with multiple job titles. After getting positive responses in the search results indicating that Sales, Finan...
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