Consider the scenario of you finding a new job in a new company. You are treating this as a project. For this project, you are the project manager, and some of the tasks include the following: deciding the job requirements that fit your profile, updating your CV, interview preparations, setting up your CV on the job portal, and signing up for job alerts. Other tasks may include reviewing your CV with career center personnel, and signing up with career center for job opportunities. There are various stages/tasks while finding a new job ranging from deciding on a company based on culture, location, salary, and benefits to getting ready with interview preparations and making arrangements for the interview travel.

Consider this project from the project manager’s viewpoint and prepare a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the project. Enter the tasks and divide each task into subtasks (with more details). Include dependencies between tasks. Indicate hours of work, status, start date, and planned, estimated, and actual completion dates using Microsoft Project software or a MS Excel spreadsheet. Also make sure you indicate at least 5 subtasks for these tasks. Some of the tasks are included below.

Registering with the career center

Reviewing your CV with the career center

Decide on the new job requirements & company profile

Updating your CV & identifying and resolving the gaps

Setting up your updated CV on job portal sites & sign-up for the job alerts

Preparing for interview (interview techniques, skills, knowledge, future plans)

Making travel arrangements & getting ready with your work portfolio

Conducting the interview

Following up after the interview

Negotiating the offers you receive

Deciding on the best offer

In all, the number of tasks and subtasks is expected to be 25. You need to indicate at least 6 dependencies among the tasks. Develop a project work breakdown structure (WBS) for the project scenario in Microsoft Project or Excel spreadsheet in appropriate format.