Why Your Product Manager Resume Isn’t Getting Interviews (And What to Do About It)
If you are searching for a job and not getting good traction, what would it be worth to you to shorten your search by a month, guaranteed? This is, in some ways, an unanswerable question, since you don’t know how long your job search is going to be. But if you’ve been searching for a […]
Your PM Resume Is Hiding the Best Parts of Your Career
I said something in a PM discussion last week that I’ve been thinking about since. We were talking about what product managers actually do that AI can’t replicate – where the real value sits as execution gets automated. And I said: the thing you did to build it is the least interesting part of your […]
Why a Longer Resume Bullet Beats a Shorter One (Most of the Time)
Everything you’ve ever been told about resume bullets says keep them short. One line. Punchy. A verb, a thing, a number if you’ve got one. “Architected a multi-agent personalization system powered by contextual multi-armed bandit models.” Done. Here’s the problem with that bullet: nobody who reads it wants to talk to you. I’ve watched this […]
The Two Interview Questions Everyone Dreads (And How to Actually Answer Them)
Two interview questions strike fear into almost everyone: “Tell me about a failure.” “What’s your biggest weakness?” These questions hold a strange place in the interview. Everyone knows they’re coming. Everyone dreads them anyway. And most people – including very senior, very capable people – still plan to wing them. Think about that combination for […]
Your PM Resume Metrics Are Real. They’re Just in the Wrong Place.
Most product managers have real numbers on their resume. That’s not the problem. The problem is that the numbers aren’t doing any work. Here’s what I see constantly. Someone sends me their resume and it’s full of bullets like: Increased conversion rate by 12% Reduced churn by 8% Improved NPS by 15 points Real numbers. […]
Why Your PM Resume Isn’t Getting Interviews (It’s Not Your Experience)
A client and I rewrote one bullet point on her resume during a coaching call. When I asked her which version a hiring manager would want to bring in for an interview, she said: “The second person for sure. 100%. Oh, amazing. Life changing. I actually feel really proud of myself reading that… damn, I’m […]
Why ChatGPT Makes Your Resume Worse (And How to Actually Use It)
Everyone is using AI to write their resume right now. And most of them are getting worse results than if they’d just done it themselves. That’s not a knock on AI. It’s a knock on how people are using it — and once you understand why it goes wrong, the fix is surprisingly simple. Here’s […]