Hi everyone, I recently graduated with a Masters in Electrical Engineering and am now looking for full time roles. I am interested in product management, machine learning, and data science. I have been applying but have had no luck in getting responses, and I don’t have much professional experience as I am looking for my first job. I would appreciate the opportunity to network and get some guidance on how to navigate this process. Thank you!

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There's not much transferable from EE to Product Management. You could look for free online learning to get a conceptual grounding in PM work, but there's a lot of experienced PMs on the market right now, so competition for you would be stiff.

I would recommend leaning into the data science angle to get into a team and learn from PMs while doing data science as your primary role.

You can network within your University Alumni, and learn on online. It will both be helpful.

I am not familiar with what electrical engineering involves, but I would say apply to those types of companies or a company that builds technology for those type of companies. Apply for a role that would interest and once in, if there are product managers you can learn from them and make an internal transition later on.

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