 Okay, I think I'm alive. Awesome. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee. So let's play some one minute countdown music and then get started with our live training. Awesome. I believe I'm live now. Great, great, great. Awesome. As we're getting started, for people who join us, please introduce yourself, what's your name, what's your go and what's your challenge right now in terms of letting your next PM job. I love to hear what's your name, where are you from and what's your challenge. Yeah, come on the chat. Love to hear from all of you guys. Okay, awesome. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee. How are you guys? Hey guys. Yeah, so people who join me live. Hello. Hello, come on the chat. What's your name, where are you from and what's your challenge in your next PM job. Come on on the chat. I love to hear more from you guys. Awesome. Okay, great. So let's do this and quick introduction. I am Dr. Nancy Lee. You are in my pre-event training for our upcoming masterclass, which is tomorrow and Wednesday. And who I am, I'm Dr. Nancy Lee at Director of Product and featured in Forbes. I've helped 100 people land their PM job offer in fan companies and unicorn startup and continue to get promoted as a product leader. If you are interested in landing your next PM job fast and please go to PM excerser, my website and also drnancy.com for more about different kind of training program we have. And today, which is the pre-event training for our live masterclass. So tomorrow we're teaching you exactly how we're able to build a product portfolio within two weeks so that you're able to land your next PM job effectively, even if you keep getting rejected. Awesome. So now what we are doing right now is specifically was in today's pre-event training, which means that before you come into my live masterclass, we'll give you different examples of product portfolio. I do want to solve your confusions regarding, hey, I'm not learning interviews, which is one of the biggest challenge. That's why giving those kind of free training to all of you guys. And now let me do this. Let me see who else is here with us. Hello. Hello. Niha, how are you? Hey, Nina. Sorry, pronounce the name correctly. Nina, how are you? Hello. Hello. Yes, we have lots of people say hi and yeah, people on my YouTube comment on the chat as well. So I'm actually going live on both YouTube and in LinkedIn right now. Awesome. Cool. Okay. So now put your questions in the chat and introduce yourself and Bahara, how are you? And we see lots of people here. This is great. Cool. Okay. Now let's continue what we are going to do today is specifically we're trying to figure out why on earth people are not learning a job interviews in which I heard is one of the biggest challenge for lots of you guys not able to learn a job interview. So which is one of the first bottleneck before you learning a job offer. Today, let me tell you different strategies when to use to learn your next job interview. Okay. So right now I want all of you guys to quickly take lots of notes and then also please introduce yourself so that I know what your other challenges so we can tell you more exactly how to solve your unique challenges. So we also see Olivia, how are you? Harsh, how are you? There's people on YouTube. Hello. Awesome. Awesome. Great. Great. So now let me do this. You're not learning interviews could come from many different reasons really depends on your background for people who join us live. So come on the chat. I do want to understand what your background are you recently laid off or are you somebody who recently was looking for a job you still have a job or somebody who had no experience at all so about to graduate from college show the very, very stressed out regarding what do I do I'm going about to graduate from college anything I can do better to learn my next job because I have no experience at all. So come on the chat. I do want to break down the different strategies based on your unique background. Awesome. Okay. So come on the chat. Let me learn more. Now let me talk about current economic status regarding what's going on why people are like talking about not having specific interviews. First of all we all know that the recession actually put lots of people or lots of very competitive candidates in the market space and then when we go out compete with people later from Google meta and it is very, very true it's extremely difficult for people who come directly compete with them. Now what I want to share with you is that in fact lots of people even if they came from like a Google who recently were laid off they still have a hard time to learn the next job. What's because the match it's not because Google different things and actually currently we are helping Uber to hire the lead as per manager which is running ads. Actually I asked the Uber hybrid manager regarding hey there's so many people from Google why don't I hire people from Google directly they said the following they said hey it's not about the brand of the companies we're more than happy to hire anybody from small company doesn't have to be Google at all but I'm looking for someone with unique skills that they can actually do the job better. Not the main reason people are not letting a job offer even if you came from Google meta those kind of places. Now let me break it down to you guys based on different type of background what you should do to learn more interviews. First of all if you are lay off people or people already with experience like people lay off on Google meta or even smaller medium different type of companies all different type of companies yes you are going to receive a lot of different type of options and questions in terms of hey what do I do I already have years experience as the product manager when when if you already have years experience going out for job interviews if you're not landing a job offer what's because the following two things number one the resume session on your resume currently is stated as the following saying that I already have years experience but you didn't tell us your unique product strengths each product manager has a unique product strengths for example before people were working for Google working for payment it's very hard for the person to land a job in the like AI and self-driving car space because each product manager has a unique like value proposition to the new company let's say if your past experience is more around data you should highlight your strengths as a data product manager it's way more likely to land a job as data product manager compared with Google working on payment product manager so number one thing if you already have PM experience you should highlight your unique strengths as a product manager number two your resume should definitely reflect specifically what is your unique achievement within different companies so as we all know for people are competing with different jobs out there if you already have years of product management experience it's extremely likely you don't know your achievement so it's more important before you even were layoff in the company or currently you know the company is not doing well you need to come back to ask yourself hey what if I don't have like a loss of achievement what do I do you should go back and figure out what did you do as a team maybe you currently is not your contribution in the team's contribution could also be you launch a product the product actually was impacting a lot of customers and as a team you can talk about your contribution to the team and then the impact of your team of your product is making significant achievement and impact to your customers and those should show up on your resume okay the third part that experience PM is missing is that you don't have a product portfolio because right now some people applying for the same jobs without a product portfolio is very difficult for you to stand out and show others that you know what you're doing so what is a product portfolio let me give you um some examples let me go to my youtube channel and for people without experience you also need product portfolio as well by the way um let me show others what is a product portfolio let me come here so this is my live stream come in okay now I popular videos check out my product portfolio um okay this is part of portfolio video everyone must watch okay so basically product portfolio is a way to demonstrate your past experience as a product manager and what achievement you had um okay product portfolio build proper gaming and build portfolio key come on what are the key components of a product portfolio right here okay come to this video where I describe the key component of product portfolio the key is that product portfolio is something you put them together you can you can put them directly on a website like wix.com and then show off your product portfolio to the hiring manager saying hey this is an example password you should hire me and this is how it looked like and this is an example of different things you should include in a product portfolio I miss let me go back a little bit which is right here okay check out this video where we discuss more regarding what the key component goes into a product portfolio okay um now let me also share this uh video to the chat so everybody has the link to it okay put it in the chat um both linked in the youtube should be able to see this video in the chat okay let me know you can see it awesome okay so now for people without experience let's say oh let me see somebody that's comment on the chat already and you mentioned your background um Olivia hello Nancy love your videos awesome awesome thank you um Harash that graduate from college and recent graduate Olivia said about to graduate from college awesome and cool a chief how are you great cool okay now use college graduate as an example how would you use product portfolio and let me break it down for people with without product management experience for people without product management experience here's what you need to do number one thing if you know experience at all now you can think about how many college students are graduating from school and they found it extremely difficult to land the next job right because it's actually even more competitive your fresh graduate because if you're experienced PM you only compete with PM if you are fresh graduate compete with all your classmates everybody everybody out there it's all the classmates out there now the key for all of you guys to understand the fresh graduate how would you stand out from the competition is but building a product portfolio lots of you guys do different kind of project at school so it's normal we do different kind of project the key is once you finish your project you should directly demonstrate your outcome of your project and put them in the product portfolio and then once you apply for certain jobs not only submit your resume you should submit your product portfolio as well so that you're going to stand out from the competition okay does this make sense to all of you guys yes you can just directly go out and say hey I'm going to build a product portfolio here's the example and when you submit your job application it will going to like make you stand out 200 percent now let me also tell you guys regarding for people with no experience for you guys you guys are like a as a graduate student what should you do as a product like like someone's trying to build a portfolio here's what you do number one thing is once you go out for job interviews or you're currently in school you should think about in your past school project did you do anything about product maybe you're trying to help company solve some problems maybe you run some like a consulting project maybe help come into digital transformation maybe help with some startup all those experiences are extremely relevant to your past experience okay and then you put them on the sheet on the website and describe hey my past project actually is relevant for the management let me show you as the example because during my past project I talked to customers I conducted voice customer interview and all of this are extremely relevant for you to continue to show them hey I already have experience here is why I'm a good fit for this job okay this is the key if you don't let me interview you are not using the right strategy which is you know product portfolio strategy this is the most important thing okay so come on the chat this makes sense to you guys regarding your product portfolio any questions regarding product portfolio come on the chat okay um Baharda says I'm coming from computer science background I started my career by working as a UX researcher for about a year and then moved to PMRO and worked for over two years as a product manager my current challenge is that I'm not getting that many interviews okay so Baharda here's here's a problem if you are not getting many interviews as a product manager with two years experience at the product manager it's very likely your resume didn't show your unique strengths okay number two your resume didn't show enough achievement to to set you apart and number three your you didn't submit your product portfolio when you apply for the job once you have your product portfolio ready you can show oh I'm different from other candidates that's the key things you guys are missing okay number one thing most important thing ever okay and then also for people with um two years experience you also need to get lots of referrals to be frank i referrals is able to lend you many different kind of like interviews and get your head as well okay but one of the reason you are not getting referrals was that everybody out there saying hey I don't have a job any referral and then how would you differentiate yourself from other people was because your everything looks the same everyone with pm experience with frankie looks the same your resume looks the same you don't stand out you don't have your enough achievement and you don't do a product for everything you look the same so now if you ask someone to refer you you can say hey not only there is my like resume this is my like experience I also have a product portfolio should refer me just because I'm an outstanding candidate here is the example and then that person's more likely to refer you as well this is the key for you to learn many more interviews hey guys you need to do it right away okay so next question achieve my college is I'm working as a business analyst but still I'm not able to find opportunity in product management can you please discuss how to transition from business analyst product management okay so achieve this is very important for business analyst turn into product management it is extremely possible we have many students with like business analyst background who became a product manager many many many that happened before okay for example I was doing so many around she was a business analyst and then she became product manager into it like this happened multiple times okay so now with business analyst background here's what I want you to do number one if you want to transition into product management you really need to learn product management end to end which is well what is product management what do they do in product management life cycle you really need to know everything end to end for product management now as a business analyst you probably work on some part of product management which is number one thing you'll be like hey what do I do as a like business analyst I talk to customers I wrote some requirements I communicate the requirement with engineering team this is what product manager is doing but the problem is because you're a business analyst you never learn product management end to end you don't actually understand what's going on so you're like oh no I I don't know what happened so let me directly um figure out what's the best strategy to land a job um and without focus learning your foundation of product management so even if you land an interview people will ask your questions so tell me what your how do you turn product product from concept execution and then you're like oh you're you're just trying to for the purpose of passing an interview without understanding the foundation product management so that's why it's extremely difficult for you to land an interview or even job offer because we notice you actually don't know how to do the job so therefore if you're business analyst number one thing is immediately you need to study with product management what's end to end and then you do have related experience you need to describe your experience in the mouse and language of a product manager so that it's very transferable skills people can understand it now third once you actually was able to talk about past experience you need to show a product portfolio which is demonstrate your past product experience on a website to show hey I actually already have transfer skills here is an example even if my title was business analyst see I wrote requirement I work with stakeholders also have five different stakeholders I work with those are a stakeholder persona all this you should go to your product portfolio that's a key okay so that's the main thing you need to work on immediately okay so that's how we transition into product management um yeah actually um we are inside of our product manager accepted class we teach people how exactly was end to end product management and also teach your interview skills so you have both skills in one class to go to doctor and see the comment more and by the way tomorrow in our line master class we'll discuss more regarding examples product portfolio okay so this is a pre event training so before you come to master class I want you guys to get ready to understand examples of product portfolio so that you understand why you're not getting interviewed so that tomorrow when you come in you're ready so I know how to do product portfolio I know this is number one thing I need to do immediately okay so um a k a co can can a newbie start on a strong note how can a newbie start on a strong note okay great good question so if you are a newbie number one thing you need to really decide this is not a job this is a career number one thing okay product management career is extremely exciting to be frank very very exciting very very fun you not only need to think about I'm not here to do any job I'm here to grow in impressive career so that in the future I can land an even bigger team I can become a VP of product and by the way next Thursday or next Wednesday we are doing podcasts with our VP of product Google and it's super super exciting okay so now when you come back to think about as a newbie what do I do is number one thing immediately you understand this is important career you need to develop you need to put in your effort number two because you want to uh like develop a career your mindset starts to change you're not there to land a job you're not you are there to really understand how to build a great product so that's why you learn different kind of product management like uh like examples and experience and then you start to talk to yourself wow now I know the end to end product management is there anything I can do to build a product portfolio to demonstrate my skills lots of you guys you have transfer skills become product manager you know what 91% of today's product manager the next their first job is not product management they are transitioned from somewhere else you are the 91% so now how can you start on a strong note as a newbie is the following you first want land product management as I said earlier and then you start to work on different kind of project on the side and then you put a project on top of product portfolio to demonstrate hey I have this experience have that experience here is a proof his example that's how you immediately get into the space into product management start with strong note okay so I highly recommend everyone you don't know how impressive a student's product portfolio looks like it's crazy we have so many students who went into before some Amy Amy linear job from tiktok last month um she went and nobody asked her to be a part of a photo she went in to show a product portfolio to tiktok to show that hey I know how to build a product and the best candidate and even if she's Canadian she learned a job in the US yes and then guess what now she's in the process and sponsoring her visa um and the company you're helping her to move from Canada to the US what a great dream and great immigrant dream and people want to achieve all of you guys can achieve as well of course not all of you guys are in outside the US right now but my point is even for people inside the US the great opportunities but how will you capture great opportunities do more compared with other people that's the key okay which is you really need a product portfolio most people do not have it this is a standard everyone just needed um to grow their career okay hello hi Mohammed how are you Mohammed how are you how are you people was very similar uh background how are you awesome okay great cool um now let me do this let me directly uh let me see you have any more questions okay cool okay so now tomorrow we're going to discuss product portfolio in-depth give you different examples in our live masterclass and also how would you able to use the same strategy to land your next pm job okay we're going to spend lots of time talking about that we also spend lots of time talking about the new strategies we're going to focus on what industry still have more jobs in the space okay so let me do this let me directly um show you my website so you know where to find those information oh is this this one this one okay so the link of the masterclass is also in the description of this video now i'm also sharing you documents you go to this website and click here right here okay so go to documents.com slash masterclass will come here and then so it's free and towards the end of masterclass if you're interested in product management training we offer um you can directly stay until the end to learn more but it's a free gift for all of you guys knowing how to build a product portfolio with different examples how you can use and also one of the challenges for people not able to land a job interview not not just like landing an offer lots of people do not even uh was not able to land an interview okay over there we'll talk a lot about different kind of resume examples of keywords you can put on your resume as well okay cool okay so come here go to this website documents.com slash masterclass learn more okay let me also post it in the chat i'm going to talk you live tomorrow to discuss further cool awesome awesome okay great so put link in the chat so both youtube and uh LinkedIn folks you you guys should be able to get the same link okay cool okay great so i uh do i get all the questions awesome awesome okay great cool i'm going to see you guys more and discuss more regarding product portfolio awesome so the link is in the description um after this video and you can also go to documents.com to learn more okay it's all on my website awesome cool all right great looks like we answered all the questions in that case i'm going to see you soon in my live masterclass and cool a cool can't wait for the session time zone is different uh you have set it on for 1 a.m awesome yes please do please do awesome okay great all right talky guys soon and looking forward to see you succeed in using the best a portfolio strategy okay this number one number one key to survive during the recession awesome okay great talk guys soon have a good day see you guys bye make sure to like this video make sure to like this video and share this video with any aspiring product managers like and share awesome cool cool all right talk to you soon see you guys