Hi! Recently I have switched to a product manager role. And would be grateful for any tips for the first job search.

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Apply everywhere. The market is quite saturated right now so don't be picky. You can be picky when the offers come in. Even if you don't have all the years or types of experience they're looking for, if you even match 50-60% of the things they're looking for, apply. Really taylor your interview answers, your resume, your cover letter all around what product experiences you've had, what projects you've looked after what successes you saw, and have in your back pocket experiences you can talk about where you've face difficulty managing a project or people, how you dealt with that, or met with failure in a decision you made, what led to it, how you fixed it. How do you deal with differing opinions, especially if it comes from top down. Be confident, and manifest that job.

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