 Hello. Hey, guys. This is Dr. Nancy Lee. I believe I am live on both YouTube and LinkedIn. If you like with me, please comment on the chat. And I believe people can, and I'm also able to see all of your messages. Awesome. Okay. Hey, guys. This is Dr. Nancy Lee, a director product and featured in Forbes. I've helped 100 people lend their dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorn startup and continue to get promoted as a product leader. If you want to learn more about our coaching program, PM accelerators, you go to this website, darknancy.com and learn more. And today is our pre-masterclass event training. So let me play some countdown music for one minute. We're getting started. Today we will talk about specifically where would you find the opportunities during layoff. Let me do this. Once you join us, please comment on the chat. What's your name? Where are you from? And what's your goal for 2023? Let me do some countdown and also say hi in the chat so I understand I am actually live. This is a verification process. Make sure I'm actually live. Okay. Let's do this one minute countdown. Awesome. So let's do this. Let's get started. Welcome. Welcome, guys. Hey, guys. This is Dr. Nancy Lee. So I believe we're live on both YouTube and LinkedIn. If you're joining live with me, please comment on the chat. Say hi and introduce yourself and tell me you'll go in 2022. Awesome. So quick introduction of who I am, we're doing. So I am Dr. Nancy Lee. I've helped 100 people lend their dream PM job offer in fan companies and unicorn startup and continue to get promoted as the product leader. I'm also a director product and featured in Forbes loss of methodology. We teach you today has been used by thousands people and then their dream PM job offer. We also have a key to put a manager resume template, which has been used by 7000 product managers to lend their dream PM job offer and they have much higher success rate. Okay. So how will you find those PM template? And when you go to my YouTube channel, drnancy.com or my website, drnancy.com, which is right here. And you are able to in the bottom of the website, you're able to download the key to product manager resume template. If you are live with us on YouTube and there should be a link on top of my homepage of YouTube, you're able to download the PM resume template over there as well. But I want to see all of you guys succeed. And that's why we're going live for free to teach people to get ready for the dream job out there. And another quick overview regarding what we plan to do right now is that actually what we're doing right now is a pre event training for our masterclass. So tomorrow we were going to go live to talk about how the layoff survival strategy, how you're able to plan your dream PM job in 60 days if you are laid off and especially we're going to a very challenging time together. So this is a pre event training, which means that we are going to go live together right now to like have basic training for you to remove all the confusion so that once you get into our live masterclass, you already have your resume ready. So right now you should already receive the resume template. So once you register for the free masterclass, you also receive the resume template as well. Okay, so we remove all your confusions. Once you get in after the masterclass, you're ready to immediately jump in to man your next dream PM job. Awesome. Okay, cool. So people ask me, where do you register for a masterclass? Go to this website.docnancy.com slash masterclass. You're able to join me tomorrow and on top of that you can also directly in the go to the link in the description of this video on both YouTube live and also LinkedIn live. There is the description where you can click the link to join me directly for our masterclass tomorrow. We will teach you the layoff survival strategy. So now today let's work on where can you find opportunities given their layoff. Let me see who's here with me and said hi. Shinda from Massachusetts. Hello, hello. Oh, I used to live in Massachusetts. Two months ago, I moved to Florida, Miami. Yes, I completely changed. I moved to Miami in the winter. Two months ago, actually, yes, I came from Massachusetts. I live there for almost 10 years. I think I think 11 years is crazy. Very long. Okay. And and I'm from China. Welcome. Welcome, guys. Awesome. So let's talk about the layoff survival strategy. And specifically where can you find the opportunities? Okay, so if you know anybody were laid off or you heard some company laid off, please comment on the chat and let me know the name of companies. They start layoff employees. And so far, every single week, people told me that, oh, the company start layoff people or their own friends, family was laid off. It's very, very stressful. People also asked this question. Hey, Nancy, there's no jobs out there. What can I do? So crazy, right? Now, let me, today, let me share with you regarding where can you find the opportunities and also which companies are still hiring, which companies are not. Number one thing is I want all of you guys to start looking into the different tiers of companies. Today, I'm going to share with you three things where you find those important opportunities. Number one is that you immediately need to go to LinkedIn and search hiring keywords. Whoever, any hiring manager, if they're still hiring, they're going to put the keywords regarding hiring. So which means that his company is definitely hiring. Number one thing. Number two, when you go out for, to identify those opportunities in general, bigger companies, they are more stable. If you are landing jobs during a recession, I recommend people to go for relatively median size or bigger company. So they, in general, they are more recession proof, they're more stable. And also what's in the bigger company should also look into what kind of department is more sustainable. Let me give you a specific example. Some, right now, we have been working for Amazon and we actually have students continuously working for Amazon. And some department was heavily impacted by Amazon. Amazon recently lay off, they said over 10,000 employees and that will lay off 30% of the employees. It's probably news lots of people lay off actually recently. It's crazy. But do you know that some department of Amazon, they're still hiring and actually in November and actually we land two offers, we have two students joining Amazon. I actually, one of them joined the monetization team. Okay. So which means that the teams, the manager team, the hiring within Amazon, the other students actually joined AWS, Amazon Web Services. Okay. So those two teams are still hiring because AWS Web Services is the type of B2B companies. If you are running lots of applications, you want to support your customers, you run your application on the cloud. So it's very difficult for customers who are already on the cloud immediately to cancel their AWS subscription because you already have the software running unless you shut down your company completely. So you still have existing customers, you're not able to remove your existing application from the Amazon Web Services because they're already there. Why would you want to remove it? Right. So it's a recession proof business in the cloud space. Okay. Now monetization is also very straightforward. Monetization, you're bringing revenue for the company. So company in general is not able, it's not going to like kill the revenue generation department. So it's very critical you laser focus on those kinds of departments. And of course, some teams start layoffs. And we, if you go to my Instagram, we already have some insider news from our alumni working for Amazon and he sent me lots of screenshots of different teams start layoff within Amazon. And what are the teams that are still safe? Okay. So for example, Alexa department is getting impacted significantly. And lots of teams is crazy. So our Instagram has a screenshot from our alumni to go to our Instagram. Where's the Instagram? .ncd, also search. Let me also show you where to find it. Okay. So yeah, basically our Instagram posts lots of different companies with different teams that layoff and which teams are still safe. Okay. So go for those teams, those kind of department is going to help you immensely to like laser focus on the type of teams and target them successfully. Okay. Now the third part is that I want you guys to open up your mind regarding contracting position during recession. Okay. So now as a hiring manager, so before we talk about contracting position, let me, let me share with you regarding where to find our Instagram find other companies that still hiring and an insider tip. So don't don't let me go to my browser. Okay. Let me share this. Cool. You can see my YouTube browser. So as I said, this is a pre event training. So tomorrow we are teaching you this for my last masterclass layoff survival strategy how to land your dream primary job in 60 days if you're laid off is crazy. And so here's a restitution link where you find it is in the YouTube live. Okay. In the YouTube live or LinkedIn live in the description, there's the link here and click here right here. Okay. Go to darknensity.com slash masterclass. You're able to join me tomorrow select the time the works best for you. Okay. We also have lots of masterclass rounds a week and choose the time that works best for you. Now let's also talk about specifically the Instagram and the opportunities to go to Instagram. Okay. So this is our Instagram darknensity our Instagram over there. We have a lot of like different posts and insider information regarding what companies they're hiring. So go there and our teams posting more screenshot from our alumni working for these companies right now. Okay. Pay close attention over there. And lots of like insider news is also do on through stories with screenshot from alumni. So pay close attention over there. And let me also give a quick overview regarding quickly identify the company still hiring. That's fast. Very easy. If you go to LinkedIn, you can search people say who are still hiring for the manager right. So there will be so we are having see this company this person said we are hiring. So he's a senior for the manager tick tock monetization. Yes. And actually we have a lot a lot of alumni working for tick tock. And we also know recruiters was in check tock that we know lots of different things within tick tock. So for example, this person, he said he's hiring his team and they are hiring and then right here and he's doing monetization. No wonder they are hiring for sure. Okay. So all the monetization in general they're still hiring and it is a recession proof position. Okay. Use this as an example can find other companies are still hiring very, very easily. Okay. And finally, which is about the contracting position. So first of all, I do want to share with you guys regarding our like offers and also who are still like hiring and where can we receive offers and actually in the month of November we receive so many offers including Tesla and senior PM offer from Tesla and also senior TPM offer from Amazon and also several PM internship from Microsoft and and also two other senior PM offers on MasterCards. So those are all big tech companies still hiring and they're more recession proof as I said earlier. Okay. So now some of you guys may be thinking, well, there's a limited opportunities out there because the market became immensely competitive. So many people recently was laid off. So which means that in this situation you should immediately look into the contracting position. So let me tell you the differences between contracting positions and why there are more contracting positions during recession. Okay. So I personally went through two recessions. Very important. I personally went through two recessions. It's crazy. One is 2008. That's when I was working on my PhD and crazy. And even after I graduated from my PhD, I still find extremely difficult. That was already like 2013. So huge differences in landing a PM job because once you hit the recession, the economy will take at least two to five years to recover. So which means that everyone really needs to use new skill set to land those opportunities. And now the second recession, which I've been through actually is not a recession, it's more a hiring freeze period, which is the beginning of COVID as April 2020. Okay. In both recessions, a quote, but I think I caught second one is also similar to recession. In both recessions, both like almost all companies, they definitely reduce their full-time positions significantly, which could be like 10 times less than before. They're also layoff people. But some teams are growing. So the executives is going to make the following decision. They will tell the existing hiring manager saying that you're not able to hire all the full-time employees in your team. But we have short-term budget. You're able to hire contractors to join your team to do the same type of work as a full-time employees. Okay. So this actually happened to me when I was a group of manager in April 2020, when we announced freeze hiring, there's no opportunities. But our team was actually growing significantly. How do we grow? We actually turned some of the full-time position into contracting position, but they are doing the full-time work anyway. And they also get paid very well as a contractor. Okay. And then the people who are working for the contracted position and the contracting company also sponsors the H1B, sponsors a green car. And actually we have a student, she managed our offer at Wargreen as a full-time product manager. But because they're going through a recession, Wargreen do not want to sponsor her green car or H1B. And she was going through her green car sponsorship through a third-party contracting company. But she's working as a full-time product manager for Wargreen. Okay. So looking through those opportunities, they are the same full-time opportunity. Just temporary company want to go through a third-party route because they cannot get their headcount approved by their executives. Okay. So I hope this is a lot of inspiration for all of you guys to find opportunities. Let me answer questions here. We have lots of people coming in already. Hello, hello. Let me see here. Abira. Hello. And why is WI? Wyoming? This means the Wyoming. WI company is a Wyoming. Do you mean they come from Wyoming? Hello, hello. Hi, Abira. And James, is our plan shifts trillion from wasted healthcare spending? And can you help us launch? And sounds weird, this question. From wasted healthcare spending, can you help us launch? Can you be, James, can you be specific about your questions? Cool. Yeah, the snow got too much. In Boston, yes. I moved to Florida because too much snow. That's correct. Exactly. Yes, I do think we waste trillion from wasted healthcare spending. Well, be specific regarding what specific questions you have regarding your intent, James. Okay. Cool. Right. So we see lots of people say hi. How's it going? How's it going? Welcome. Awesome. Okay. So let me, oh, people are asking questions regarding masterclass. All right. So this is a pre-event training. So when you join me for the masterclass, you will, when you register, you should already received the resume template which being used by 7,000 product managers. Okay. So here is where you can directly join the masterclass for everyone as a reminder. So this is a pre-event training. I want you to have your resume ready before you come into our live masterclass. Okay. Let me do it here. Where is the, yeah. So the link to the masterclass is in the description of the video. You can also go to website.docnancy.com slash masterclass or just go to our homepage.docnancy.com and there's a button you can join us. It's a first button on our homepage.docnancy.com. Okay. It's very easy to learn. And if you're interested in PM Accelerator, we run, it's a coaching program. If you're interested in joining our program and the step one to join the program is also join the masterclass. Learn about our teaching style. We'll do with that to join the program. Okay. So go there and learn more. Now, I think someone commented with specific questions. One sec right here. Diraj, how can I land a job as a PM fresher? A very good question, Diraj. And actually 80% of our students, instead of PM Accelerator, they are fresher. 80% of them do not have PM experience at all. Okay. The other 20%, they need help to go into direct level, but 80% have no experience at all. Okay. So how would you be able to quickly become a potter manager even if you're new to the space? There's three steps. Okay. Step number one, you really learn what a potter manager do in the day to day work, what exactly is happening so that you're able to learn those skills ahead of time. Step number two, if you have no PM experience, you should build a product portfolio so that you demonstrate, hey, this is my capability, have done this, have done that, and here's my product portfolio. And because in step one, you learn how potter manager work. And step number two, you actually turn your learning into a portfolio to show them that you already gained experience before even become one. So that once you get into the new job, you can jumpstart your new career and start adding value from day one, and your employer will like you so much. Okay. Number three is I just learned how to pass a PM interview because the questions are very different. They would do like product design interview questions. They also ask you a question, give them an example of how to launch a product from concept to execution, how to manage product roadmap, how you manage stakeholder with different kind of conflicts, and all those interview questions you get ready. Okay. But step number one is the most important point you learn first. Number two is demonstrate your capabilities. Okay. This is number one thing. And I also have another tip. It's very interesting. I have someone actually interviewing for my company recently. My team grew three times bigger. Okay. Within two months, our team was three times bigger than before. So actually interview lots of people. I had some candidates very smart. They sent me their product portfolio. They didn't take my class, but they knew that a concept portfolio. Okay. Crazy. So the same is the product portfolio ahead of time. I said, Hey Nancy, I know this position. I know social media position. Here's my portfolio. Here's what I've been doing in the past. They gave me a demo of their skills even before they come into interview. And for those people, of course, they will get priorities going to find a run interview for sure. Okay. Your chance of being successful, like in learning a job offer is significantly higher by doing a product portfolio. And actually, I have a free training for a product portfolio. Let me send you right here. Let me show you what's great. Where you can find product. Oh, by the way, let me put the masterclass link in the chat box. You guys can directly register as well. So putting the chat. And now let me go to the product portfolio. This is our live from here. And let's put a photo. I have so many popular video. Go to my popular new updates, popular video. This one. Okay. How to build a product portfolio to succeed in product management and interview. So go to my YouTube channel, Doc Nancy, so join me and go in the popular, most popular upload folder. You should be able to find this one. This one already had 19,000 views. 674 likes. Okay. So once you get here, make sure you give it a like and also share this video with any people who are fresher into product management. Okay. So once you come here, it's more about specifically what you can use for your product portfolio, what goes into your product portfolio. Okay. So this is extremely important. All right. So come to this training and you're able to receive this like biggest like bring your portfolio amazing. Okay. So use the same methodology. You're able to get into next level very quickly. Awesome. Cool. Okay. And in the description of this video, you should also receive a certain different project you can work on to create your product portfolio. Okay. So right here, you should use this project list to create a product portfolio as well. Okay. You can download the list right here where you find this video in the description of video. You have the project list. Okay. So everything is ready to go. Awesome. Cool. Oh, let me put this video right here and in the chat. So you will have it stop sharing right now. Oh, oh, oh, oh, stop sharing. Cool. All right. Next question. So second, you asked the same question. How would you land a job as a PM fresher? You're new to product management. Oh, I just answered it. Before our question, feel free to continue comment in the chat. Another LinkedIn user asked me this question. Contracting position are sometimes pitched by third parties and I have a third party a hard time understanding whether the role is actual PM role or is a adjacent role. Unfortunately, I don't see company directly listing contracting positions on the career page. Is there a better source for these positions? Oh, very good question. So yes, if any company having contracting positions, they do not make it as like on their website. In general, they don't make it on the website. Yes. When they hire a contracting position, majority of them go through the third party agency. So inside of PM, et cetera, we have some like agency we work closely with. So anytime they have contracting positions, they will pass over to me and then I share with people inside of PM, et cetera, for almost, you're right, for almost all big tech companies, all contracting positions are shared through third party recruiters for sure. Now, what's the best resources? Really understand. Okay. So are they really product role or adjacent role is that when you go in to have a conversation with third party recruiter, you just need to ask questions straightforward. So what does this position do? What team are you going to join? Who are you going to report to? Okay. So be specific. If you're reporting to a group or a manager, yes, you are inside of PM team or you're reporting to a director product, you're definitely inside PM team doing PM work. Okay. So ask very specific questions. Okay. So yes, for all the contracting positions that are through agency, in general, I haven't seen any companies that put part-time position contracting position on their homepage, their website. So yeah, they hire third party because the reason is the management of contractors is very complicated because lots of people that are doing contractors, they need to do some 1099 different payment process. They also have different kind of a healthcare process. They also if you're on H1B or you need green card sponsorship, the third party need to manage for you as a HR function. So therefore the bigger companies, HR team is not going to deal with this HR function. So they will have somebody like third parties to manage you guys. So best way is actually working with third party contracting company. So Dirac said, and where else can we find job opportunities as a LinkedIn that actively hiring. So yes, the ones you can find opportunities are, I like LinkedIn the most, but you can also go to Indeed. And so go here. Indeed is like grandfather job website. It's a grandfather job website. Indeed right here. And they put in Miami because somehow they notice I mean Miami. Very cool. So let's do not do Miami, put a manager bro, product manager, pro training, enable manager, technical pro manager. So they are Bloomberg, New York. Okay, so yeah, they are still hiring all those companies. They're still hiring. Okay, product manager, localization, Netflix. So Netflix, they're hiring remote in California out this remote PM position. Hey guys, another trend is that Oh, have I sharing my screen? Oh, I haven't shared my screen. Sorry. Oh, I haven't sharing my screen. So go to Okay, so let me do this. Let me share this page. This, uh-huh, one sec, one sec. What is this page? Forgot to share my screen. Okay, we're here. Put in change, remove location. My default location is Miami, because I move here, then you put product manager through the global search, because they're able to see like remote positions as well. Okay, so you see so many Bloomberg is hiring was like Bobcat. I don't know what this is, they're still hiring. Hiring, hiring, and yeah, Bloomberg is paying people very well. This is typical. Typical product manager getting paid, yes, up to $300 per year. If you're working for a fan company, you can go even higher than this. I was doing an ending like $350, $400 for fan companies. For companies, you're enjoying crypto startup. I was doing getting paid like $450,000 per year working for crypto company as well. Okay, as a product manager, yes, this is very reasonable. And I are here. I'm talking about the remote position. So for the Netflix, they also have remote positions. Okay, so actually there are a lot. And remote in California, this is amazing. There's so many opportunities out there, say another Netflix. Netflix is actually hiring lots of people, even in a subscription job. It's crazy. So there's another remote position, so many remote positions. Hey, guys, this is a great opportunity for everyone. All right, so you can find so many opportunities here, so many. Okay, and so many pages, click as a pages as well, say five, five different pages out there. But number one problem for you guys is more about the resume. There's so many opportunities out there, your resume wasn't good. Okay, so once you register for the free masterclass, go to docnancy.com, you're able to receive the free resume template where we teach you how would you're able to draft your preferred product manager resume and specifically inside the masterclass also teach you how to increase the success rate of landing more interviews. But what would you put on your resume? How would you like recraft your messaging when you actually like pitch yourself through networking methodology? We cover more inside the masterclass. That's why this is a pre-event training. I want you guys to understand where you find those opportunities. That's very easy. There's so many opportunities out there. It's that the opportunities are only given for people who are prepared. Okay, I want all of you guys prepared. So get ready for our upcoming masterclass where we dive deeper regarding how would you write your resume and get a template, resume template ready and you're able to register here, docnancy.com slash masterclass, this URL will go to our website, docnancy.com. You can just easily find the masterclass link and also in the description of YouTube live and also LinkedIn live, you can get a description on the links very easy. Okay, so now let me answer the next question. Where is the chat bar? Where is the chat? Okay, next question. Cool. All right. So looks like I answered all the questions. This is amazing. Awesome. Okay, great. All right. Given we answered all the questions and I can't wait to see all of you guys in our live masterclass and help you guys really craft your perfect resume and also know how to craft your product portfolio ready for your next PM job. This is crazy time. I want all of you guys to use the free training we just provided to increase your success rate. Okay. Awesome. All right. So this is doc chain CD. Oh, it's not the questions here. Another LinkedIn user almost, I almost hit close. Some company like Microsoft and Amazon have not been super responsive to my application. Is a message getting my resume notice maybe and like ATS strategy. What is ATS strategy? We will discuss this in the session tomorrow. Yes. So actually I was learning so many offers from Microsoft and Amazon. Okay. So let me give you like crazy screenshot. It's more about the problem of you drafting your specific email messages, how you improve your like resume and also how you're able to quickly use networking strategy to increase success rate. Okay. So first of all, let me show you the what's inside. Okay. So let me do this. Let me show you the screen. Then you know what I'm talking about. So yes, there are lots of opportunities out there. Okay. So there's RSVP link to join our Microsoft class and actually we send out this through our email list on Friday. So this is what we got in November. No more 30s. That's all the offers we received for example like service. This is Microsoft service now offered Tesla, Mastercard, another Microsoft. Okay. And then another PM internship in the Dobley. And then and the week before on November 13, we set up your offer senior team name offer from Amazon for ask monetization. So I told you doing more monetization work is more easy for you to land a PM job offer. Okay. And then someone else also lands senior PM offer. This is another from Mastercard. So basically and ask people to intervene with Binance like CVS and also like what different company like Lucy car and Amazon as well. Okay. So my point is that so for example in the month of November, we already received multiple offer from Amazon and Microsoft and like Tesla, Mastercard, those kind of companies and specifically how you increase the success rate. It's more about your resume. It's likely number one problem is a resume doesn't have what they're looking for. You don't have the PM keywords and didn't show your achievement. Number one thing. So the number two thing is that within those companies, you really need to know what kind of like teams are still hiring. You need some insider tips. So we know lots of insider tips. That's why I asked you guys to go to Instagram where we have lots of insider tips from our alumni regarding which team are still hiring. So using those opportunities, you should be able to get lots of tips. Okay. So inside the masterclass model, we're going to go in depth regarding what specific things you should look into, how to improve your resume, what different kind of keywords and why you're rejected. Yes. So that's, that's the reason we are going to do our like masterclass for people who are interested in PM accelerator, our coaching program. You should stay towards the end of masterclass where we tell you more regarding who do we select to join the masterclass of who do we select to join the PM accelerator course. And then you can stay in tune towards the end as well. Okay. But the first one hour is free. Everyone can use the same strategy to quickly learn and improve yourself. Awesome. Cool. Now, let me see. Have I answered all the questions? Super responsible application tracking system. Yes. No, it doesn't work. It's the one. Yes. You're right. They're not responsive because your resume didn't work out. You're using wrong networking strategy. You don't have portfolio. That's the reason I said, I said, we'll dive deeper inside of our masterclass. Okay. So Janie asked, are there remote opportunities for people without work permit in the U.S.? Janie, yes. For example, we have my student, Lilian, she currently is based in Thailand. She landed a CMO position in the U.S. based company. It's crazy. She was getting paid at U.S. dollar. She's getting paid extremely, extremely well. And she's working remote completely in Thailand. Okay. So, yes, there are opportunities out there. You can find them. It's more about are you smart? Are you the ones who is able to lend those opportunities and the best strategies you can apply? Okay. Yes. The simple answer is yes. There are opportunities. Of course, they're not everywhere. Not all the companies are giving remote positions for people outside the U.S. You need to find the right company. And actually, for our company, for PMA, PMX Center, my company, we hire people globally. I have people working in Asia and in Paris. I have a student working in Paris, all of the country, all of the world actually. So you just need to find the right employer. Awesome. Cool. Let me see. Cool. Looks like I answered all the questions. Awesome. Awesome. Cool. Let me jump in the link to the master class for people who want to join us. Awesome. Cool. All right. So looks like I answered all the questions and I'm going to see you soon in our online master class. Again, this is a pre-event training for people already registered. You already received the link to download your resume template. So please use that. You also receive the video training for you to get ready for your resume. Okay. So make sure you use all the free training ahead of time. So when you come in, you can directly modify your resume and apply our strategy immediately. Okay. So check your inbox. Cool. All right. So I'm going to see you soon in the stock name CD. See you tomorrow. See you guys and bye, guys.