New research indicates project management skills, including the ability to effectively execute projects and identify and manage project risk, will be some of the most sought after skills over the next five years.*

PMI’s career framework will help you identify these skills so you will be ready next time someone asks “Why should we hire you?”  PMI’s career framework is the only project management career path based on extensive research of project managers and the skills that lead to success.

PMI conducted research with more than 5000 project, program and portfolio managers and used results from this research as the basis for developing the skill and project profiles used in the job descriptions.**

PMI’s career framework can be accessed using PathPro^®, a website designed to help you navigate the career framework career path, review the full list of skills and competencies, and conduct a self-assessment against the data.

The Career Framework job descriptions have the following key components:

Project, program and portfolio management skills mapped to job descriptions using a robust research process conducted with over 5000 practitioners worldwide.

Levels of proficiency for each skill identified through aggressive research conducted with approximately 2000 practitioners worldwide.

Project profiles delineate the size and type of project managed by each project professional within a given role. To identify the key components of a project profile approximately 2000 practitioners were polled worldwide. 








*Economist Intelligence Unit, "Innovations in the Improvement of Staff Performance." 2008.

**Project Management Institute, "PMI Project Management Salary Survey - Fourth Edition." Project Management Institute, 2006.