Full paper Project Manager Skills: for Employability in Information Technology

The purpose of this paper is to explore and analyse the additional skills that project managers require that go beyond technical project management skills to enable them to be successful. The above mentioned additional skills are made up of people skills, leadership skills, the understanding of the functioning of teams, and the understanding of the political environment of the project and are identified from the literature. These additional skills are compared with the characteristics that were included in advertisements for 107 project management positions in the New Zealand information technology sector that were advertised acros