Good morning, I am a recent under-grad and working as a BI Developer. I’m looking at transitioning to a project or product manager role and I have 1+ YOE. I know the job market is not that great as of now but I’ve applied to countless PM roles and have had no success. I want to know from other PM’s if it’s necessary for me to get a PMP certification before I can get a job or it’s not that of a requirement?

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Need to have product experience to land a product role. Recommend building something to get started - a website, landing pages, e-commerce business, an app, etc.

Also recommend applying to pm roles and or internships at smaller companies to get started and then once you have some product experience you can go after the more competitive pm roles (i.e., Google, LinkedIn, Meta, Atlassian, Salesforce, Uber, etc.)

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I’m currently doing PM work at a very small and early stage fintech startup. If I want to be in tech in the future, would it be harder to transition back if I were to go into a different industry, like ad or marketing agency, now?

This thread should provide some insight. https://joinfishbowl.com/post_goepdhc96s

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Following as I’m trying to pivot into PM as well!

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