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Unemployed Agilists: How to Increase Your Value to Get a Great Job, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development? This post is about your deep domain expertise, first in product, then in agility. First, the product-based expertise. That's often product people, testers, and some UI/UX people.

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Unemployed Agilists: Review the Hype Cycle & Your Agility to Help You Manage Future Job Changes, Part 4

Johanna Rothman

Then, in Part 2 , I asked those unemployed agilists to review their functional skills, the skills people need to do a product development job well. That's why I then asked people to review their product-oriented domain expertise and agile-focused domain expertise in Part 3. And use the flow metrics so you can see progress.

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Consultants and Candidates: No Free Work. Ask for Reasonable Compensation

Johanna Rothman

Then ask several senior staff to use those phone screens in parallel on all the candidates who pass the first resume review. (I See Flow Metrics and Why They Matter.) And they don't want to waste a lot of their time answering questions or building your product. I wrote about this in Hiring Geeks That Fit.)

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Friday Fusion: August 21, 2020

Tsavo Neal

What are the best formats for a resume? Here’s the resume format I used to earn my first job in tech as a product manager in 20 days — as a History major, nonetheless! See the original PDF of my winning resume here: [link] ). What did you find as a result of buying this product/service? If so, why?

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Create a Conference Proposal the Conference Wants and Accepts, Part 5: Write Your Bio

Johanna Rothman

Here's my speaking bio, in specific lines, so you can see how I use that template: Johanna, known as the Pragmatic Manager, offers frank advice for your product development challenges. She works with individuals, teams, and leaders across the organization to resolve risks and see alternatives for their product development.

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A Commercial Pilot’s 2-Year Plan to Break into Consulting

Management Consulted

Is my resume where it needs to be?” We’ve got your resume to go through, and as I gather you have a whole bunch of questions about consulting. Do you want to talk about your resume and your experience first, or do you want to talk about the questions that you have? Commercial Pilot’s Resume. Is that right?

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Case Interview Foundations: 6 Types of Case Interviews

Management Consulted

So, after writing the perfect resume and cover letter, and preparing at least 6 Hero Stories, it’s time to face the music. Profitability is the ultimate business metric , and profitability cases can address a business in any industry. Or maybe the company is t rying 2 different types of packaging for a product; one is 3 oz.