To recruit the right person for the job is an an extremely rare expertise for companies to have in today’s fast paced world. A lucrative package with a fancy tag in an exotic sounding location sounds great but comes with its own pitfalls. By promising a stable, lucrative position in today’s unstable job market, an employee is led to believe that past experience and expertise has helped him/her get the post but in all likelihood one is being set up by the employer. This becomes a necessity when all the mistakes listed in the past five posts have happened – either by conscious design or by an unnatural twist of fate.
While your employer may have signed a milestone based contract, they may have provided resources based on a timesheet based contract. Needless to say, resources that may be required at construction stage are not useful at early design stages. Construction Management resources adept at handling complex sites end up twiddling their thumbs while Design Coordination struggles due to lack of resources.
Several such situations like this may have arisen where such challenges in some form or the other present themselves to Project Managers. Under such situations, choices are limited to:
- Adapt to the challenge by accepting the situation as it unfolds in a new job situation
- Be pro active and raise a flag about the inadequacy and wrong type of resources which could potentially backfire.
A compilation of experiences on similar situations may add to our body of knowledge and will improve Project delivery to clients and modify our working methods.
Links to previous posts
5. How to (not) do your budget in five easy steps
4. Read the contract you just signed
3. Don't promise the impossible in a ridiculous timeframe
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