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What are some of the most common red flags that product marketing candidates make?

Rekha Srivatsan
Salesforce SVP & CMO, Tableau4y
I'm a huge fan of shorter, concise resumes. If you can articulate your journey and experience on one page, it will help me to process your resume well. Some red flags I'v...
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Jenna Crane
Triple Whale 🐳 VP of Marketing | Formerly Klaviyo, Drift, Dropbox, Upwork4y
Getting on my soapbox here for a second (though I suppose I've been on it this whole time) — make sure your resume is concise and clear. It should be 2 pages MAX, ideall...
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Christine Sotelo-Dag
Close Head of Product Marketing3y
A few flags that I look out for are outlined below that separates a good candidate from a great one. Failure to be concise. As a product marketer, one of the key charac...
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Pragnya Paramita
Amplitude Group Product Marketing Manager7y
My top 2 based on recent experiences: Very rudimentary but using bullets from the job description instead of actually writing what you did and what was the result, is st...
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Clare Hegg
Skopenow Director of Product Marketing7y
In initial PMM interview screens I always ask the same question (partially because it just works and partially because it sets a nice running baseline for me); 'Describe ...
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Steve Feyer
WalkMe Director, Solutions Marketing & Competitive Intelligence7y
I had a PMM candidate tell me that he was not comfortable presenting to audiences. Obviously a deal-breaker there. Every PMM needs to present. I've reviewed resumes or L...
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Max A.
Google Product7y
This is a red flag for me: Answering behavioral questions with hypotheticals and generalities as opposed to describing specifics of the projects they worked on and usin...
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Abdul Rastagar
Sirona Marketing CEO of Sirona Marketing: GTM for healthcare and life sciences5y
There seems to be a common thread among talented marketers who don’t do well in their interviews - responses sound generic, answers are often way too long and provide too...
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Daniel Palay
KPI Sense Chief Executive Officer6y
This isn't about avoidance or red flags, but what I consider the single most important behavioral question to ask, whether you are the one interviewing or the one being i...
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