Transitioning from construction project management to product management.... industry to tech. Any advice on getting my foot in the door and landing an interview?

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Product Management Career Path

Natalia Baryshnikova

Atlassian Head of Product, Enterprise Strategy and Planning • 3y

Your path to landing a product role will depend on being able to show how your skills from the current role translate to the new world, and proving that you can bring value to a product team on Day 1 when you join. Here is how I would tackle this: Identify the similarities between product manager skills and yours - there are planty of parallels between building software and construction. Scan through job postings, listen to recorded interviews of PM and start identifying which skills of yours an ...Read More

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Manjeet Singh

Salesforce Senior Director of Product Management • 4mo

Your project management skills transfer more than you think. -Scoping work, managing stakeholders, dealing with tradeoffs and deadlines — that's PM life. Reframe your construction experience in product language.Practice: Take a product you use daily, write a one-pager on what you'd improve and why. Put it on LinkedIn or a portfolio siteTarget companies that build for your industry. Construction tech is booming. Use ChatGPT to find the list. Reachout to few people on linkedin.. to start the convo ...Read More

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Aaron Bloom

Bluevine Senior Director of Product Management | Formerly Xero, Practice Fusion • 1y

There is a lot of overlap between Product Management and Project Management and I've found good Product Managers are also typically good Project Managers. Experience managing complex Construction projects will certainly be impressive to hiring managers, but you need to show that you understand how your experience maps to the software world. Typically this means being ok with a less rigid and more agile approach that I don’t think is possible in Construction, but is often preferred in the softw ...Read More

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