Abstract: 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, if your chosen career is to be a successful Project Manager. The research touches on the many qualities and skills that a person must learn and possess to become a Project Manager. This report will not cover the total execution of the project. Putting a project together 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 most of these steps. When your chosen profession is that of Project Manager, there are 5 different skills that are used in a Project Management role. They are leadership, communication, problem solving, organizational and team building skills. (http://www.anandnatrajan.com/FAQs/ray/PM/) Education will help hone these skills, but having leadership qualities is important. The Project Manager is responsible for the project, the client and the team. There are levels of education that a person can participate in when choosing a career as a Project Manager. The first would be a certificate which requires a small amount of time. There are online colleges that offer it starting with 23 credit hours. (http://som.utdallas.edu/project/) Axia College at the University of Phoenix also offers an Associates of Arts Degree in IT. A student can earn their degree in less than 24 months. For higher education a student can earn bachelor's and master's degrees in Project Management. There is a chart on the "PayScale" website. The graph shows average salaries. Salaries vary depending on the location of the job. The average starting salary for a Project Manager, i...... middle of paper......cherchers and students.(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. Storm. Apollo Library. Retrieved 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/ retrieved 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.