Project Experience - Company or Individual
Project Experience - Company or Individual
(OP)
Does project experience follow the company or the individual who performed the work? This is in the context of listing project experience for marketing purposes.
For instance, take this scenario. As part of company A, an employee carves a niche out as a historic renovation expert and gets several notable projects completed for the company. The employee leaves Company A and begins to work at company B. Company B hired the employee for their notoriety in historic renovation and wants to advertise their experience including these notable projects. Where does the experience stop being the employee's and start being the company's?
Note...obviously any issues regarding confidentiality would confuse this. For this example, assume all of these are public projects where there isn't a non-disclosure about the nature of the project or anything.
For instance, take this scenario. As part of company A, an employee carves a niche out as a historic renovation expert and gets several notable projects completed for the company. The employee leaves Company A and begins to work at company B. Company B hired the employee for their notoriety in historic renovation and wants to advertise their experience including these notable projects. Where does the experience stop being the employee's and start being the company's?
Note...obviously any issues regarding confidentiality would confuse this. For this example, assume all of these are public projects where there isn't a non-disclosure about the nature of the project or anything.
PE, SE
Eastern United States
"If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death!"
~Code of Hammurabi





RE: Project Experience - Company or Individual
If the chief designer for Ford went and joined GM, would they have claim to all Fords designed during that period?
RE: Project Experience - Company or Individual
In such a case, you have to push the person first, listing his prior accomplishments, rather than the other way around... "We employ Joe Shmoe for our designs. He's known for such projects as 'X' and 'Y'." would be preferable to "Did you see building 'X'? Yeah, our guy did that." The first highlights the project, funded by another company, which you took talent from. The second highlights the talent in house, and then provides examples of why his talent is highly regarded in the industry.
Dan - Owner
http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com
RE: Project Experience - Company or Individual
Say Person A is involved with the design and construction of Building B at previous firm. While we would include Building B in their firm resume that we'd hand out to clients to show off our key personnel, we wouldn't include Building B in our company portfolio of projects we've performed.
If that makes sense. Person gets credit. Company does not.
RE: Project Experience - Company or Individual
RE: Project Experience - Company or Individual
Your company's work.
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Other projects
P. Paul M. (New London, CT)
Q. Mary G. (Atlanta, GA)
R. George M. (Mayberry, CA)
S. George M and Martin B. (Williamsburg, VA)
T. Mary G and Martin B. (Old Town, CT)
RE: Project Experience - Company or Individual
Racooke - I like this format. May change our company resumes to something like this.
PE, SE
Eastern United States
"If a builder builds a house for someone, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built falls in and kills its owner, then that builder shall be put to death!"
~Code of Hammurabi
RE: Project Experience - Company or Individual
I guess someone could search for my resume and see my past experience. And yes some clients tell me how they researched me beforehand.
B+W Engineering and Design
Los Angeles Civil Engineer and Structural Engineer
http://bwengr.com
RE: Project Experience - Company or Individual
RE: Project Experience - Company or Individual
I have lost several bids to another firm recently, on basis of that firm having longer experience. But the founder of that firm, the fellow who accumulated the previous 40 year's of history, retired a few years ago and the remaining talent has about 10 year's experience. They will do a good job, and I don't favor counting length of years as a qualifier, but ironic in both these cases that was the criteria utilized. (both government projects, ha, ha!).