Episode 68
How To Break Into Product Management Without Any Prior Experience - w/ Jackie
In this episode featured not-Guru is Jackie Henning. Jackie is a Product Manager at Cylinder and thru her content, has helped hundreds of aspiring PMs break into Product Management.
Who this is for
- You are breaking into a new lane and need proof before the story looks obvious.
- You would rather hear Jackie's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.
Key takeaways
- Break Into Product Management Without Any Prior Experience - w/ Jackie
- Jackie is a Product Manager at Cylinder and thru her content, has helped hundreds of aspiring PMs break into Product Management.
- threshold is the amount of product experience you need before you start looking interesting to recruiters. So then the...
- and in this episode featured N guru is Jackie Henning. Jackie is a product manager at Cylinder and through her content...
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threshold is the amount of product experience you need before you start looking interesting to recruiters. So then the question becomes how do you get to that threshold level of experience
to that threshold level of experience needed? Imagine a recruiter reading the following line on your resume that built and launched such and such app with 36,000 downloads. I mean that's a slam
36,000 downloads. I mean that's a slam dunk right there as a student. Those are four different things that you could look at to gain product experience. So if you're already employed but you want
if you're already employed but you want to make that jump to product management, what I always recommend is I'm Naman Pande. This is the Ready Set Do podcast and in this episode featured N guru is
and in this episode featured N guru is Jackie Henning. Jackie is a product manager at Cylinder and through her content has helped hundreds of aspiring product managers break into PM.
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In this episode featured not-Guru is Jackie Henning. Jackie is a Product Manager at Cylinder and thru her content, has helped hundreds of aspiring PMs break into Product Management. Think product management is a velvet-roped lounge guarded by Stanford MBAs and ex-consultants with polished slide decks? Surprise—it’s more like an indie music venue with a bouncer who only checks whether you’ve actually played a set.
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