This document provides advice for finding the right product management role. It discusses what recruiters look for in candidates, including business analysis, requirement gathering, presentation skills, documentation, project management, growth skills, and roadmapping. It also discusses how to prepare for interviews, including building your resume, practicing stories and examples, reading about the industry, networking, and practicing puzzles and analytical questions. The document provides tips for acing discussions during interviews, such as listening carefully, asking questions, and thinking through examples visually. It emphasizes the importance of a good cultural fit between the candidate and company.

1. Chasing the
Dream Role
Finding a fitting product role
By Ujjwal Trivedi
http://uvtimes.blogspot.in

2. Ujjwal V. Trivedi
UVTimes

3. Story What is Product Management?
What are recruiters looking for?
What are you looking for?
How?
- Resume
- Preparation
- Networking
By Ujjwal Trivedi http://uvtimes.blogspot.in

4. Product
Management
Tech + Business + UX/Design +
Domain
Ownership -> Hustler/Go-getter

5. What they
think they
want?

6. What they
say they
want!

7. What are
you
looking
for?
Amazing Work
Lot of Money
Great Brand Name

8. What they
look for?
Business Analysis
Requirement Gathering and Elicitation, Ideation
Presentation
Documentation, Wireframing
Project Management
Getting it done, Cross team coordination
Growth
Measure, Analytics, Marketing, Content
Roadmapping
Prioritisation, Strategy

9. What they
interview
for?
Experience & Skills
- Roadmapping, Prioritisation
- Documentation
- Situation questions
- Soft skills
- Consumer Research

10. What they
interview
for?
Design skills
Estimation skills
Product Instincts
Analytical ability
Problem Solving
Technical Knowledge
Culture fitment

11. Resume
Building
JD is your Cheat sheet
Conventions
Kid-me-not
Quantify your achievements
Add Quirks:Make it stand out

12. Prepare Keep your stories ready
Strengths
Weaknesses
Challenges
Success
Failure

13. Prepare Favorite Product
- Tech & Non-Tech
- Popular and lesser Known
- Analysis (Good and Bad)
- Improvement Areas

14. Prepare Puzzles
Estimation Questions
Analytical questions

15. Prepare Read
- The Ken
- Economic Times
- Techcrunch
- Product Hunt
- PMHQ
Events
PM Groups

16. Network Meet & Greet people
Connect on Social Media
How can you help them?

17. Ace the
Discussion
Puzzles
Estimation Questions
Analytical questions
- Listen carefully
- Ask questions
- Think graphs, Venn Diagrams
- Think aloud

18. Ace the
Discussion
Design Questions
- Listen Carefully
- Ask questions (Why? For Whom?
What should I focus on? What do
you want to optimise?)
- Quick and Dirty - start drawing
- Think aloud

19. Ace the
Discussion
STAR Framework
Situation
Tasks
Action
Results

20. Deal with
ASMNTS
PUNPICR
Framework
Problem
Users
Needs
Priority
Ideas
Comparison
Recommendation

21. In the End A lot has to Match
(Skills+Experience+Impression+Cost
+Urgency)
Have patience
Keep attitude

22. Thank You
Linkedin, Twitter, Skype
ujjwaltrivedi
UVTimes.blogspot.in