PM Resources

About Us

Monica Para 🦝 - I recently graduated with a degree in CS + Advertising at the University of Illinois and am currently a software engineer on a trading team. My past experiences lie in event marketing and teaching students computing fundamentals through Kode With Klossy and UIUC’s CS 124 course.

David An ✍🏻 - I recently graduated with a degree in Mathematics at the University of Illinois and also currently work as a software engineer as well! I have past experience in creating material directed towards undergraduate recruiting and early stage careers. I am passionate about online branding, creating communities around different ideas and digital storytelling.

Understanding How PM Aligns in Tech

Recruiting Resources

• https://kristina.substack.com/p/how-to-write-a-rockstar-resume-free
  • in general, make sure to always quantify impact where applicable. estimates are ok too
  • resume should be easy on the eyes as recruiters usually spend less than 30 seconds reading them.
  • when saving your resume, always save it as a pdf: First LastName Resume.pdf
• https://careersprep.io/
  • since career fairs are soon xD → https://careersprep.io/networking/fairs/
• https://simplify.jobs/
  • chrome extension to make applying easier

📌 This was a great resource Monica taught me about on how to prep good stories for interviews. I’ve used this template since

Before an interview, I usually read past interview experiences on Glassdoor, Reddit, and Blind to get an understanding what to expect beforehand. Also, there’s some Youtubers that talk about their recruiting processes for [X] role at [X] company that I found valuable

Job Boards 💼

• https://apmlist.com/ → Main place for PM postings

• Linkedin Jobs → ‘2024 Product Management Internships’ (or similar keywords suffices)

• https://researchpark.illinois.edu/work-here/careers/

  More ideal to create a meaningful relationship or cold calling Research Park Site Directors for Product Management Internships.

• https://careers.google.com/programs/bold/

  • Apps open on Oct 2nd
  • They have Associate Product Marketing Internship in this role, something to look into as well

• https://github.com/SimplifyJobs/Summer2024-Internships

  • PITT CSC List is always a go to for computing/tech related roles as well

Online Communities 🌐

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/productbuds/
• https://www.lewis-lin.com/blog/2018/7/8/lewis-c-lins-slack-community
  • good place to do PM Mock Interviews and resume reviews
• https://rewritingthecode.org/
  • women in tech community but I’ve met a lot of Marketing / Business folks here who are in Product Management. anyone can join!
  • very welcoming place and they have a lot of professional development sessions with their corporate sponsors

PM Knowledge 🧠

• Product Management Interview Prep
  • https://github.com/keianasnell/pm-interview-prep
  • https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-PM-Interview-Product-Technology-ebook/dp/B00ISYMUR6
  • Mock Interviews for PMs (scroll down since there’s a couple): https://www.youtube.com/@tryexponent/playlists
  • interview guides for specific companies: https://www.tryexponent.com/guides
• Understanding what the field is about
  • https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507
  • https://medium.com/product-buds
• Being in the product mindset
  • Building Products for the Enterprise - Blair Reeves
  • The Product Book - Prospect Schoool
  • https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/50-articles-and-books-that-will-make-you-a-great-product-manager-aad5babee2f7
    • I’ve [David] been making my way thru this article and all the resources offered too !

People to follow on Linkedin 🗣️

✨ These are some folks that curate content for recruiting, professional development, and PM opportunities that we found to be valuable to learn about. Feel free to leverage people in your network or mutual connections that are PMs as well

• https://www.linkedin.com/company/bobatalks/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jvngyn/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/graceyg/
  • Founder of Product Buds, graduated in Marketing from Northeastern and has experiences in Product Management @ Salesforce and Assosciate Product Marketing Manager @ Google
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jalonniweaver/
  • not really PM oriented, but she gives a lot of slay advice from a recruiting perspective and also is from Texas
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-wonsulting/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/camille-mejia/
  • she gave me (Mon) some good advice during PM recruitment; she’s now a FT Product Manager at Microsoft NYC

Follow campus recruiters and program managers in companies you’re interested in as they usually post when they’re hiring + good opportunity to reach out to those folks

• On your linkedin profile to tailor job preferences:

  • job titles → ‘product management’, ‘product manager’, ‘product marketing’
  • location types → whatever you prefer
  • employment types → internships, part-time, contract
  • visible to recruiters only

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