Breaking into PM

You don’t have an information problem. You have a positioning problem.

There is more free PM content than you could watch in a year, and you’ve probably watched a lot of it. You still can’t answer the one question that decides a recruiter screen: why you, and not the 400 other people who read the same posts.

I’m Dennis, senior PM at Microsoft on Azure Cloud. Before that I was a hardware engineer at Intel, so I’ve made the switch you’re trying to make. I’ve asked candidates the same interview questions over 100 times, and almost all of them fail for the same two or three reasons.

In 30 minutes we’ll cover:

• Where your actual background maps to PM work, specifically, not the generic version.
• Whether you’re a PM or a TPM, and why applying to the wrong one is quietly costing you callbacks.
• The two or three things in how you currently tell your story that are getting you filtered.

What to do in the next 30 days.

You leave with a one-line positioning statement, a target role, and a plan.