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

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Inside advice on your PM job hunt

Inside advice on your PM job hunt

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

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Inside advice on your PM job hunt

- Everyone before we move on to the actual resume and interview process I wanted to give you a couple of sort insider tips on looking for a product management job. These are kind of miscellaneous tips that I just thought that I should tell you about and pay attention because they will help you in the long run. The first tip is for any product management job opportunity, you should make sure that the company that is looking to hire has a good understanding of the product management role and can clearly illustrate why they're hiring one. I say this because as an observer of the industry, I've seen a lot of companies that don't see the difference between product and project management. Sometimes these companies will end up hiring somebody merely to keep engineers on task and if you can you want to avoid this to maximize your experience for actual product management. The second tip I have for you is to do a lot of…

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