Writing a project manager resume

Everything below is counted from 2,977 live project manager postings, taken from employers’ own career pages rather than a job board. Nothing here is advice about what usually works. It is what these specific postings say.

Open roles: 2,977
Employers: 817
Remote: 8%
Verified live (7d): 2,464

What they ask for

Counted across 1,081 of the most recent 1,500 postings, the ones that named a skill we recognise. A share is of those, not of every posting.

PMP34%
LinkedIn28%
Instagram25%
Microsoft Excel23%
Microsoft PowerPoint15%
Microsoft Outlook11%
Professional Engineer10%
Atlassian JIRA9%
Microsoft Project7%
Scrum6%
Autodesk AutoCAD6%
Microsoft Visio6%
Confluence5%
Adobe Acrobat4%

This is a floor, not a ceiling: the reader behind it only counts terms it recognises, so a skill missing here means it was not matched, not that nobody wants it. Put what you actually have on the page.

Who is hiring right now

Turner & Townsend426
AECOM167
CORP-Corporate Office63
slihrms.wd3.careers54
ProSidian Consulting, LLC49
Langan Engineering & Environmental Services44
Swinerton Builders33
Parsons Technical Services, Inc.31
Talent Trader Group30
Jobs for Humanity29
Kpr26
HITACHI ENERGY TECHNOLOGY SERVICES PRIVATE LIMITED26

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