Has anyone taken Product Manager Certification™ from Product school and successfully pivoted into product manager job? Or any other certification program? These certifications cost $$$$ and I don’t know whether it will be worth.

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A great question. Product school isn’t cheap but I haven’t seen much success stories

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I wouldn’t recommend. The product meetups in your city are free and get 70-80% of the same outcomes

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ALWAYS trying to figure this one out lol.

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I asked my company to pay for the certification and my manager advised against it, she said it was more of resume fluff and a nice to have. Real experience will always outweigh the certification. I’d look into a certification from a prestigious university instead. I know MIT offers an online one for roughly the same price

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Just having the school name + the cert will look better on your resume and you don’t have to be accepted to take the course. But I wouldn’t guarantee that it’ll help you get an APM job.

A better approach is potentially solving a real world problem on your own and having evidence of how you identified the problem, tested it was a real problem, conducted user research by talking with real people, then what your solution was and how you built it. I know this sounds kind of intimidating but i’ve seen some people get really scrappy and pay very little money

It’s definitely not worth it !

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