What is the standard for a product manager to find a job?

For the product manager to find a sense of belonging to the company to do, even if the failure of their own efforts, there is no regrets.

in all occupations in IT, product managers are perhaps the most tangled in their job search. This is because the product manager of the profession itself is a mixed bag, although the title is the same, but there is a great difference in responsibilities, different responsibilities mean to the individual requirements, do things differently; the second is because the Product manager's career appreciation depends largely on product visibility, And the success of products, but also rely too much on the company background and resources and other external factors, a lot of things are not the product manager can control.

a . Several important factors

I believe that everyone in the search for a job will be clear in advance what they want, first of all, the product manager looking for a job will be valued by several factors.

1. Company size

The advantage of the Internet industry over other industries is that the industry is known for its products, and if you work in BAT , even the outside world has heard about your company. This way back to the words will have a sense of pride, can be very good to meet their vanity, of course, this is not the most important reason for everyone to join the big company.

for an individual's career, if you have a large company experience, will be gold, many companies recruit people will value the experience of large companies, the most realistic point is that you win interview opportunities will be relatively large.

Another big company often also means that the product size is larger, for product managers you do a user volume of 1 million products with the products , in some product strategy is still different, for their own product awareness will also be a great improvement.

2. Product Type

Company's products are different, product managers do not do the same thing, so the product manager in the choice of career choice should also consider the specific product type, this is mainly related to product managers personal career development and interest.

If you have been a social product before and want to become an expert in this field, you can choose a social product for a job. If you are a back-end product manager, you can continue to choose to do the management system. In addition to the direction of the product, can also be based on job responsibilities to select a professional field in-depth development, such as always do personalized recommendations of the product manager.

from the perspective of career development, taking such a road is beneficial to the accumulation of work experience, the company would like to recruit people with similar products experience. For the individual, if you have been doing a certain aspect of the product, and then change to do something else, you will be faced with the business knowledge previously understood may not be able to reuse the problem, a lot of things to re-understand.

If you like to travel, then you can choose to travel products. Interest has a great benefit, in the actual work process can make their own better thinking, from a user's perspective to consider the problem.

Some people will feel that interest and career development is somewhat contradictory, because interest will change, and may you have been doing a certain kind of product will be more irritable, looking for a job is to change the direction of the product, so the key is to see what they value more.

3. The company's development potential

Not all people can enter the big company, big companies are not necessarily good, pros and cons, I think a big disadvantage may be the individual play a small space, less promotion opportunities.

We also see a lot of big companies who come out to join a start-up company, for the better development. So we can also choose a company with development potential, with the company to grow up, if the company has developed well, its position and return will be a lot of harvest.

4. Stage of product development

from the point of view of job responsibilities, the stage of doing products is divided into many, according to the product development process can be divided into product design, project management, version iteration, product optimization, data analysis and so on. Not joking about some people may do 2or3 years product has not done product optimization and data analysis work.

this happens because a lot of company's strategy is not clear, in the continuous test of water, maybe a product developed after a period of time and not how to promote, and began to do another new product. In this way the product has no data and user feedback, no data can not be analyzed naturally, no user feedback, product managers are only behind closed doors.

Some product managers may seek to supplement their own shortcomings in a certain area, such as the ability to supplement data analysis, then you can find a relatively mature product, has a certain user base. If you want to experience a product from the creative to the development of the entire process can find a new project team, starting from scratch.

In addition to these factors, there are welfare benefits, work distance, company atmosphere and so on. But a company can not be perfect, these are objective factors, very good comparison.

even if you understand the above, you will not be able to find a satisfactory job, because there are many factors that cannot be pre-awarded. Even if you join a big company, it's hard to reach your expectations if your project is on the edge.

The above mentioned four points only 1th and 4th better judgment, 2nd is OK, as for the potential of the company's development is too difficult. Even if you have a good eye, when you make a profit by the company is estimated to be many years later, many people are difficult to persist. A lot of people around because of the company's development bonus, but also can only be summed up as a result of luck.

Second, the standard

The product Manager to find a job standards should be what, I found the answer is to do the product of the sense of belonging.

A sense of belonging comes from three aspects

1. interest is the best teacher, with interest maybe you will be willing to study a product very deep, this is the basis.

working these years, I have a great feeling is that in terms of product design, do not need to only work in the time to draw prototypes. If you like a product, even when it is time to work you will always think, pondering, experience other products to see if there is a reference to, and when your brain in the shape of the product has a general outline, the painting prototype is actually very fast.

2. There are company shares or options.

more people do not expect the company is their own, just hope that the interests of the company occupy a greater number. If a person holds a company's options or equity, even a small part of it will help strengthen his sense of ownership. In particular, for those who have no hongguzhizhi, material rewards can greatly increase his sense of belonging.

3. personal ideas are being played.

Some product managers may have been pregnant with an idea, suffering from the lack of technology and design to help develop, if you meet a company very supportive of your ideas, can give you the resources to realize their own ideas, it is really a very happy thing.

Of course it doesn't matter if you can't dominate the strategic direction, and the company gives greater rights. If giving him greater rights means that he has more autonomy in the process of product design, and for a responsible and pursued person (which is the premise), the motivation of the individual will be greater.

three . The embodiment of the sense of belonging

an employee's sense of belonging is very beneficial to the company, and not only will he be more concerned with his work but also the turnover rate will be very low. The development process of the company will certainly have a bad time, there is a sense of belonging to the staff at this moment will play a positive energy, but not the sense of belonging to the staff is easy to retreat at this moment.

a sense of belonging to the staff will be proud of the achievements of the company, and will not because the work of a little dissatisfaction in complaining, even when working overtime or rest when the work will not be emotional, and even active overtime.

If you talk to this kind of person, you will find that they are praised for the company, they may wear the company's T-shirt, with the company logo printed on Some things, the circle of friends often forwarded some news about the company, but also actively help other departments recruit, Their nickname on the social network also adds the company's name and so on.

A project can be successful, often need 2-3 years to verify the results, the future of a lot of things can not be judged, for the product manager is better to find a sense of belonging to the company to do, even if the failure of their own efforts, there is no regrets. As for the future of the impact of job search, although there is no big company, good products to do endorsement, but at least learned something, to believe that the ability of people work is certainly not difficult to find.

 

Source: Everyone is a product manager

What is the standard for a product manager to find a job?