There is an opportunity for everything. There must be efforts before the opportunities

Some time ago graduation season, some school brother came running to ask my company will not recruit graduates as product assistant, there is no specific requirements, I will talk about how they embarked on the road to product design , hope A little help to friends.

My earliest answer to this question is knowing, someone asked: I was 2 schools, but in the Internet industry as a test engineer internship for six months. Will the company recruit graduates as product assistants, and if so, what specific requirements will it have? My experience is just right for answering this question. So eloquent wrote a pass, gained a lot of approval.

First talk about my experience: 3 months before graduating from college, I made a trio of traditional Internet companies that make security equipment in China, including the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the 10-year Shanghai World Expo security monitoring equipment is the company to do , Is said to be the boss of the video security industry. At that time promised annual income of not less than 80,000, it should be said that the temptation of a graduating student is still quite large, if no exception, I will go after graduation. The wonders of life lie in the surprises everywhere. 3 months before graduation, there is a start-up company to do mobile applications to our school to preach, I went to nothing to listen to nothing else, and later went to this company to apply for Android development engineer, unsuccessful, unwilling. Later in Sina microblogging on their products published a lot of views, Weibo Aite official microblogging and CEO, then boil up all night a special view of their products, improve the system to send comments to the company boss, Featured by the CEO of the company as a product assistant (the reason why it is special, because before the company did not graduate as product assistant). Although there are only 800 internship salaries per month (without meals, I ate two buns for 1 dollar each morning, and 8 bucks for noon and night) and there are many things that I feel fulfilled. After graduation, there are two options to put before me: one is to go to the traditional Internet company, holding a good salary and benefits, but the work is not necessarily my favorite; there is a stay at this company because And the previous company signed a tripartite if you do not go to pay 2000 liquidated damages, wages are not high, start-up companies may not be stable, but this work is my heartfelt interest in my life's beloved. I did not hesitate to choose the latter, but my parents and especially my mother do not understand very much, which makes me very distressed. I can not understand her, the elderly do not want to understand, but I do not want to give up their favorite work, she eventually beat me. Although I have left the company now, there I have plenty of opportunities to practice my ideas, and my abilities and experiences have been growing rapidly.

So everything is not absolute, personal ability, attitude, perception are OK, graduates are not the key, the key is you, even if you Baidu, Tencent and if you are enough NB will recruit. In addition, if you still can not meet the requirements of this post, you can curve save the country: first find some competent work (such as test engineers), and then gradually move closer to their goals. Closer to home, Baidu, Tencent, Ali and other companies on the product manager's request can be found on the network can be used as a reference. Talk about my personal understanding of the product assistant's requirements (because of my college graduates who come to ask me more).

1. love and passion (weight accounted for 80%)

If you do not love the Internet, if there is no passion, if you do not stay up all night in the university Daoguang various software services, it is recommended or not to apply for product-related positions. When you are really interested, the other skills are secondary. When I first started the product I did not even know anything about the position of product manager. Later, when doing products, because I love, I eat, lying in bed, the toilet is thinking about how to make the product experience better. Sometimes in the middle of the night and the boss send text messages, call for red-hot.

2. To have assertiveness

Make products must have assertive, can not be parrot arguments. People who make products must be assertive and have no opinions about which experiences are good or bad. Of course, this is not to make your opinion must be independent. Just think you are right, we must insist, it is best to come up with data, evidence. If you can not insist, you will suddenly all people carry out the products themselves can not convince.

Have a feeling

Have a feeling of the product. This depends on the individual, very often, the moment you get the product may have the feeling of love or dislike of this product, the first intuitive feeling.

4. To be sensitive

Careful, good at observing the details. For example, can not tolerate typos, riding a bus to see good advertising copy of the station will stop taking pictures.

5. To humanity, psychology to understand

Zhang Xiaolong (@allenzhang, QQ Email and WeChat Product Manager) said: "To be honest, after so many years of work, I feel that it is the most important thing to grasp the human nature ..." To do a product is often the mastery of human nature.

6 have a mind

@Allenzhang Zhang also said the sentence: "always suspect their paranoid, because that may be wrong." I personally have a special feeling about this point. Before the internship, I had always been a stubborn person who did not listen to the advice of my parents and others. I just thought my opinion was correct and I just believed in the subjective initiative of people to win glory. Later, my uncle lived in internships, lying in bed at night and my uncle chatting, my uncle and I said a lot of his views on life, he also knew I could not hear it, only let me in mind, later know whether it makes sense. At that time, I just found it very reasonable, but I did not listen to it (people are like this. Others say that 10,000 years of his experience are all others, and he is only impressed by his own fall.) Later life, work discovery is really right, at least in my current life, work experience. This is the so-called growth, I do not know is good or bad.

7. Have enough sense of responsibility, take the initiative to promote and communicate skills.

If you "love passion," this is not a problem. Do products often need to promote related personnel to cooperate with the server, market, operations and other related staff. So take the initiative, have a strong sense of responsibility and a certain degree of communication skills. Even to "please" colleagues, to be customer service and chat with users, to answer questions to solve practical problems. To encourage team morale, buy movie tickets to team members, engage in activities for everyone to have fun, adjust the atmosphere, take fruit at noon. Only members of the team happy to be hard-working products.

Love learning

Love reading and keep improving. From reading, watching some of the cattle blog articles, their own products continue to sum up the practice of upgrading. For example, insist on blogging is a good habit, do not be a long-term microblogging control, will let you fragment the entire time.

Many things in a startup may be able to grow quickly, and have a great opportunity to make a product. But the premise is that you have to find a relatively reliable company, and how to fly depends on how you take the time to go through a variety of ways to understand (the company's Weibo, WeChat, competitors, etc.). And in many cases, you only know that you do not know why. However, when you focus on the efficiency of small companies, they are not sufficiently regulated. Sometimes, such irregularities bring about follow-up problems. This is especially noticed. In addition, many people say that they love product design, the most important thing is to come up with practical examples, including resume writing how to stand out from the many candidates, you can try to empathy think you are HR to review their resume. My point of view stems from my own experience, may not be entirely suitable for you, please combine their own actual situation to do analysis.

As long as love, other resources you will find ways to find, to solve. The product road is very long. Although I am busy with work, I still continue to use free time to learn practices, including trying to do something I have not done before, and I hope I can grow with you all. I describe it as a product assistant to ask for such a high (in fact, is not high, just one point: whether love, whether there is passion). Depending on whether you're looking for a job or really loving this job, I wish you all the best! And you are welcome to communicate with me via the "idesign123" WeChat product. Sometimes the company's products are not controlled by themselves at this level, so I Also spare time to do some of their own projects, the WeChat public number is one, I strive to achieve the ultimate, detailed look at me before writing "Do not tell me you will operate WeChat."