So your answer should identify why you want the job and then elevate that reason to a greater purpose.įor example, say you’re going after a technical PM job for a Fintech company.
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How to Answer Passionate PMs want to change the world for the betterment of mankind. They also want to know if you’ve done your homework and researched the job and the company. Question’s Purpose What makes you passionate about the job? What motivates you as a human being? That’s what they are trying to extract out of you.
I spent days on it and continually refined it every time I said it to a prospective employer. Spend as much time as you need to make it work because it’s critical. Brevity - takes one minute to say the whole thing.īe aware that your elevator pitch is incredibly hard to put together and very challenging to make it sound like it hasn’t been put together - if you know what I mean.Ordered experienced that maps to my resume (which they may or may not have actually read).Supporting points that outline my experience.Strong and emotionally impactive thesis statement that’s one sentence long and focuses on the users I’m trying to help.And at company Z, I was the PM of dev experience that helped 3rd party devs go from zero to hero and learn build apps for our marketplace and make a ton of money. At company Y, I led a team of tech writers and developers to build educational services and tools to teach developers how to build awesome integrations with our platform. At company X, I was the team lead responsible for enabling our team to create world-class on-boarding materials for developers to create apps on our platform. In a nutshell, my career is about helping and empowering developers to build amazing things. This is a powerful way to make a lasting statement about yourself. How to Answer Create an elevator pitch that threads together the story of your resume. Question’s Purpose A good PM can tell an impactive, succinct story about something complicated - and what is more complicated than you? How concisely and passionately can you can tell your story? Show that in the interview -it’s the only way to turn that negative into a positive. It’s what you learned and how you come out of it that matters the most. Everybody at some point in their lives gets fired, re-orged, poor performance reviewed, and so on. Do you PM homework on the business so you can connect your hard-learned lesson to the new job opportunities.ĭon’t let what happened at your last company be the end of you. Answer without emotion, concisely, and in a way that makes it sound like it was a tough but valuable lesson you had to learn. Poor performance “My last performance review wasn’t nearly as good as the ones before that.Re-orged “Change is the only constant at the company and I’m grateful for the time I got to spend there because I got to learn X, Y, Z, which made me a much stronger PM and in a good position to execute X, Y, Z at your company.”.What I learned from the experience is X, Y, Z, and here’s how I can apply that to your company.” Fired “Ultimately, my manager and I had a very hard conversation and we both felt this wasn’t the right place for me.Be truthful but focus on the positives, just like you would if you were giving stakeholders bad news. Easy-peasy.īut if you’ve got some skeletons in the closet, then answering this question is challenging. Just focus on what makes the new company so wonderful and why you are the perfect fit for it. If nothing is wrong and you’re leaving because the new company is a cool opportunity, then answering is easy. They want to know if you were fired, swept out for poor performance, re-orged into irrelevancy, and so on. Question’s Purpose PM is a high-pressure job with lots of moving parts that can go extremely wrong. Why did you leave (or are leaving) your last job?
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