From the course: Becoming a Product Manager: A Complete Guide

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- Hey everyone. So this is a section all about preparing for a job in product management in order to maximize your chances at getting a job. There's one big problem that's also kind of a benefit about being a product manager. The problem is that it's pretty hard to get the job at first because it requires prior experience, but on the positive side, once you have that sort of experience or you've done it at least once, you have a lot of career security because everyone else has trouble getting that experience, so it's really easy to switch jobs and get promoted and that sort of thing. There's also just a low number of really qualified product managers out there, and the demand for them is really increasing lately. Unlike programming and computer science, there's no way to major in product management in college and say that you have prior experience from that. So how can you best position yourself to get the first…

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