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How to Craft Your Personal Story to Land Your Next Product Job

You know that feeling you get when you come across a product that just works? Maybe you got it the first time you used Square. Or the first time Tripit saved you money on airfare. Or maybe it was watching Netflix on your Roku. I'm sure you know

3 Ways to Learn About a Company and Impress the Hiring Manager

In the last few posts, we talked about not sending your resume to anyone and everyone, and instead narrowing your market. Today, we'll look at how you can research your market and your specific target companies. Let's continue with our example. Suppose you defined your market

Why Defining Your Market is Essential to Finding a Product Job

You've already learned to stop sending your resume to everyone and anyone. Right? If you haven't already, stop and read, how not to find a product job. This post will build off of that one. We've learned the best way to find a job

How Not To Find a Product Job

Far and away the most common question I get is: * How do you find a product job? Before we tackle answering this question, let's look at what most of us do when we try to find a job. We start by working on our resume. We list out

Read Decisive and Make Better Product Decisions

Over the past 3 months, I've written a number of posts inspired by the book Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath. I'm a big fan of their work and so much of the research from Decisive is directly applicable to building great products. I highly recommend

Don't Make Snap Product Decisions

This post is part of a series about making better product decisions. Do you ever find yourself making snap decisions? An engineer asks you for more detail on how a feature should work. You hadn't considered that specific use case before. So you come up with a solution

Don't Overcommit to a Bad Idea

This post is part of a series about making better product decisions. At the World Domination Summit 2013, Jia Jiang gave an amazing talk about his experience following his dreams. When he was young, he saw Bill Gates speak, and he dreamed of starting a company someday. But like many