I remember watching this video when I started college. I kept hearing from everyone "you wont get a job after college" and i won't lie it kind of scared me. however after transferring to CSUS my passion grew bigger. I am now part of the commercial team for the ASC student competitions. My program at Sacramento State has had a 100% job placement for the past 4 years. The key to this is... INTERNSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS... make your-self marketable!
Bosstraxx Fuck internships. I'm not giving you any more than an hour of my time for free. Internships should be illegal. They're the same as Indentured Servitude. Shame on you for pushing them onto impressionable youth.
i graduated in 2010 from Clemson university with a Construction Science and Management Degree. i went into highway construction for 3.5 years as a project engineer. Now i am a Project Manager with a Local company mostly working at government facilities. its a challenging job but rewarding when you see it all completed.
Quite nice to see the busy and adventurous life of a project manager. I Hope one day ,i too will have the fortunate opportunity to manage some projects.
Thank you very much for this video! I am a trained Architect and Engineer and have always been drawn towards the organization of projects. The idea of becoming a project manager has always been in the back of my mind, but difficult to confirm as it is hard to clearly see all aspects of the position. You've successfully accomplished a nice, quick overview which will allow me to better research this profession. Thank you!
Very sanitized version of what the daily life is and the conflict resolution skills and patience need to transition from Board Room into the trenches. 20+ years in very large Airport Programs from $30M to $1.3B.
This video low key inspired me to change my career path. I was looking into majoring in chem and it sounded pretty hard and boring and not good pay. but now this sounds fun and motivates me.
How far are you into chem? Uoull be working the rest of your life so choose something you like, who cares if you graduate a few years later then you thought
I didn't go to college so I had to learn this junk on the fly. just my opinion but if your not a quality multi Tasker and r one of those people who need to directly focus on a task without any distraction don't even bother getting into this field. if you from new York you better quickly learn the importance of dominating and staying ahead of all submittals and RFIs. be all over making sure everyone that needs latest drawings has them. so Many changes. fall behind in the submittal process can bury you quickly
I have worked in consulting business as a mechanical eng. for almost 5 years I had enough fun but there was always something missing: interaction with different people. Thats why, I want to go in to construction management. I understand it is very challenging but at the end rewarding and energizing career as well. I have a question to those who have been in this business for awhile, do you think it would be a problem for a construction manager with not having a Structural Eng. or Architectural background? I know you dont have to be but it seems like unwritten rule. What are your thoughts?? Thanks!
The superintendent is the backbone of any Pms job. I feel like his/her role as a super has been hugely under valued in this video. We need you to do paperwork, not tell us how to build a building. Put your finger away!
There are a ton of schools offering this curriculum. Just type in Construction Management Programs when searching the web. In Michigan Ferris, Eastern Michigan & Michigan State University offer accredited bachelor programs. I know some community colleges offer construction management classes, and Oakland University. Some out of state programs I know of are: Purdue, M.S.O.E., Ball State etc...
@lameengo its expected to increase by 25 percent in the coming years, because of the economies flip around. I'm going to college for it now and all my fathers siblings own a successful business in L.A. and make more than 80,000 a year depending on what they do.
I’ve been doing drywall for 20 years and I’m really looking into changing my career a bit & I’d like to attempt to apply for a position but a bit discouraged because I’ve always worn tools & I feel like I should stay working at the bottom of totem pole but I’m tired of it
I am a Boise state university graduate. I loved it very very very much. I graduated from Boise state university on may 1995 . I am from the Republic of Yemen.
Just wondering why u need good grades ? Does it really help you in your every day life ? I believe the only thing the matter is the person "passion" for the job or duty.
+TALAL BUTT If you have good grades in School then it reflects on how hard you work. A person with amazing grades can be able to be amazing at their job. School reflects who you are. You are less likely to become rich if you are a terrible student but have big dreams to become rich.
There's always one person who cites one successful man who dropped out, out of the 325 million people in the United States. Statistics say that of course one person will fundamentally be a "genius", do I need to list everyone who is successful AND went to college? You're telling me it doesn't significantly help? Ignorance at its finest.
A friend has a big construction company. He offered me a job as an entry level project manager and he will train me. I've always been into cars indurtry as manager and business owner and in the medical field. I have remodeling experience but nothing at the level of PM. I'm a good multi tasker and like getting my hands dirty. How hard will this be without a degree?
Whatever you do, don't fill your curriculum with communications classes! As a CM with 13yrs exp, you MUST know the trades! I don't care how well you communicate. If you don't know HOW to build something, you're gonna be the laughingstock of the project. I benefited from growing up in this industry. Most of you will have to hire on somewhere to get your experience. However you do it, it will pay off immediately. I can only assume that this guy can fill out RFIs, POs and daily logs with the best of them, but how will he handle the carpenters questions about header size or the excavator's question about the manhole inverts? Will he simply pass off those questions to the engineers? Constantly doing that brings your value in question. Also, don't show up on site wearing a suit and tie.....the men don't want to talk to a suit. They want to talk to another contractor. Lace up your boots, cupcake. You may just have to get dirty.
Hi bit random, but I'm doing civil engineering and at the stage of choosing dissertation topic, I've chosen it to be on project management but not sure the topic, wondering if someone with your expertise can help a fellow engineer. Thanks
Caramon Majere i feel like even if they dont have all the knowledge you are saying is needed they can still do good at their job.. theirs such things as phones now a days it may be able to help.. and i dont understand why wearing a suit would matter... he is a PROJECT MANAGER he works in all aspects of it... business, design, and supervision. He didnt study to be just say a carpenter, not hating just example.. but I do agree he cant be afraid to get out on the job site.. now you may have some more knowledge than be because im not a construction project manager YET but i have job shadowed and such and this is just some of the knowledge i have picked up
em1edwin project management is more for jobs at companies non-construction and construction management is more for construction companies.. you cpuld probably get either job with the other but it would be way easier to become a construction project manager with a CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT degree. It depends on what u wanna do.. you could major in construction management and minor in normal project management
@xxhasudin i aslo graduate 2012 cum to australia if u cant find anythin the economy has actually been strong cos of construction.............and thez more goin on every 2 seconds andnew towns being built.....
Ive been in the trades my whole life from framing to concrete. I was considering going to school for construction management, do you think it would be worth the time and money? should i just work up the ranks? what are my options with the degree and experience?
+Kiyoko Kamiyama Hey Kiyoko !! Even I am also looking forward for a masters in Construction Engineering and Management. You have any idea from where to start and which countries to chose for studying CEM? It would be pleasure hearing from you.
Hi! Mapua Institute of Technology in Philippines offers CEM, i'm not sure if they're offering masters in that program though. You might want to check their website :)
+Kiyoko Kamiyama U guys can try this major in Melbourne University OR Swinbourne Uni . I am gonna apply one of them next month. Btw, I have a bachelor degree of civil engineering in RMIT university. All of those Universities are pretty awesome and Melbourne is the most livable city in the world.
Oh wow! Kudos for updating this thread! I am now a graduate of electrical engineering and now working as a consultant. PE or being a CE (UK equivalent?) is now the dream :)
Virginia Tech or Clemson University are good choices. Also, if your school does not have construction management, another great option would be to major in civil engineering with a discipline or focus in construction!
As a Junior CM with 10+ years of experience....this is just a show with clean tie ....Things are NOT going like that in reality!!! This is just B***S***
I majored in Construction Management at Northern Iowa and I feel like I made a bad choice because of this economy the construction industry has been hit the hardest. I graduate in 2012 hopefully the job outlook will be better then.
just because he didn’t slave away performing manual labor for 12 hours doesn’t mean he didn’t do anything. there need to be people to coordinate construction in order for it to get done.
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