That’s how long it is since I had a serious, paying contract. Time, I think, to reflect on what I’m doing wrong…
Firstly, I’m not a specialist. I’ve worked in many industries and central government. I’ve delivered complete solutions, rescued £17m contracts, finished programmes that were stalled and implemented a range of smaller solutions. I’ve done line management, programme management and straight consultancy.
So clearly, I’m not qualified to deliver a simple application roll out then.
I got bounced for a PM role recently: the agent wouldn’t put me forward since I didn’t have the necessary skills for the role – in his opinion. I looked him up on LinkedIn. His career since leaving Uni was six months selling health foods and nine months in recruitment. Ho hum…
I’m not “qualified”. I learned PRINCE in 1985 and have been using it ever since,and I’ve been around ITIL since it was first launched. But the CV isn’t littered with the relevant certificates. Fair enough, I should have wasted some time getting the exams (except I hate exams with a passion and always have done). Hasn’t stopped me delivering things to standard of course, but in this market no qualifications equals no experience. Funny that nobody has yet twigged that the reverse is not actually true though.
Biggest problem though is that 365 days. Clearly I’m either useless or lazy (in fact I spent a lot of that year looking after a terminally ill mother, but you can’t put that on a CV) and obviously I’ve now forgotten everything I ever learned about everything.
So, new year, new challenge. No idea what, as yet. All ideas (and job offers!) gratefully received!