Summary: Title: Choosing a career as a project manager. This research will summarize what a project manager is and the steps explained to complete a project successfully, if the chosen career is to be a successful project manager. The research addresses the many qualities and skills that a person must acquire and possess to become a project manager. This report will not cover the total execution of the project. Putting together a project from start to finish is a huge amount of work and there are steps to follow to ensure nothing goes unnoticed. This research will cover the majority of these steps. When the chosen profession is that of project manager, 5 different skills are used in a project management role. These are leadership, communication, problem solving, organizational and team building skills. (http://www.anandnatrajan.com/FAQs/ray/PM/) Education will help hone these skills, but it is important to have leadership qualities. The project manager is responsible for the project, the client and the team. There are levels of training that a person can participate in when choosing a career as a project manager. The first would be a certificate that requires little time. There are online colleges that offer it starting at 23 credit hours. (http://som.utdallas.edu/project/) “Axia College at the University of Phoenix” also offers an Associate of Arts degree in Computer Science. A student can graduate in less than 24 months. For higher education, a student can obtain their bachelor's and master's degrees in project management. There is a chart on the “PayScale” website. The chart shows median salaries. Salaries vary depending on location. The average starting salary for a project manager, I...... middle of paper ......dear and learners. (Section II: PackingUp). (Annual 2007). Reinventing project-based learning, p.75 (17). Retrieved July 8, 2008 from General OneFile via Gale: http://find.galegroup.com/ips/start.do?prodId=IPSGrant, Kevin P., T. Scott Graham, and Michael E. Heberling. “Project manager and project team involvement: implications for project leadership.” Journal of Leadership Studies 7.4 (Wntr-Spring 2001): 32. GeneralOneFile. Gale of wind. Apollo Library. Accessed June 23, 2008. http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Project_Manager,_IT/Salary retrieved from the World Wide Web on July 1, 2008. http://som.utdallas.edu/project/ excerpt from the World Wide Web on June 24, 2007. http://www.spottydog.u-net.com/guides/close/frameset.html retrieved from the World Wide Web on July 25, 2008.