My brother, Tim, is an amazing project manager! His team was laid off (without severance 😞) days before Thanksgiving weekend due to biz dev pipelines (not performance-related).
He’s been applying and interviewing in the months since, gets exclusively positive feedback… but every opportunity seems to evaporate. 😕
To everyone who started sharing this again, thank you, sincerely.
Extra big thanks if you forwarded Tim’s details (https://timsticka.com/) to a hiring manager or anyone in need of Project Management (remotely or near Portland, OR).
He’s not just a great PM, he’s an amazing person. It breaks my heart to see him continuing to look after this many dead ends. 💔
@jonikorpi The frustrating thing for me is that it becomes this self-fulfilling prophecy. The more sites look the same, the more people expect them to look the same, and the harder we have to argue when that doesn’t suit the project.
I’ve written a few times about this sort of thing: