Career | How to have experience when you don’t have experience?
I know the question sounds trivial, but in the job hunting, the classic catch-22 problem is real——
I know this struggle firsthand. When I decided to break into product management(PM) world, I was at my final year of college, so I had no time for a PM internship. I was constantly frustrated by job posts that list PM experience as a prerequisite. People told me that it was impossible, especially during a pandemic.
I am glad I didn’t give up. So I wrote this to encourage more people to pursue what they love and use the right strategies to break into a new field. Below are what have helped me to get a Product Manager job at Microsoft, straight out of college, without any PM experience or internships in big name companies.
0. Mental Framework
Before we dive into specific ways to address this chicken-egg problem, let’s take a step back and understand why it exists in the first place.
From the employer’s perspective, this prerequisite makes sense because they would…
