Comments on: Guest Post: A Short Guide to Being an Unemployed Product Manager, Part Three

By: Help Your Fellow Product Managers / Product Marketers Find Jobs | The Cranky Product Manager

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:02:01 +0000

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Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:50:06 +0000

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By: David Locke

David Locke — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:08:09 +0000

Be your own product manager. You are the product after all. That way you never have to think, hey, I don’t have a job. No, it’s the paycheck you don’t have.

So when was that meeting with marketing today?

Vacation? Forget it.

By: Paco

Paco — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:25:06 +0000

Of course, it helps to talk-the-talk for your desired position, and I refer you to this fine example of sales-talk for those who venture down that path:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CErz3t02lxI

You should also brush-up on your interview skills and etiquette:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I91ABrpvMvU

And, yes, I’ve been catching up on my Netflix queue during my “time off”. Freakin’ love Will Ferrell.

And, while I’m ripping on sales a little, gotta bring up the classic that you’ve probably seen at more than one sales kick-off meeting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OTgb3KO7QM

By: Graham Gillen

Graham Gillen — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:22:53 +0000

So true. Because Product Manager was my title in previous jobs (even though the responsibilities included Marketing), several recruiters did not consider me for Product Marketing positions. After landing a new job, recruiters called me about the SAME position I had been turned down for before.