Transitioning from MC at ACN to Product Manager role at another company! Any and all tips appreciated

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Would love to hear how you framed your consulting work in your CV!

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Yeah I struggled with that too. I talked about what the business objective was and how the product helped achieve that. I will say in my project, I didn’t do an implementation. I did build a real mobile application that the client’s customers would use so that was good.

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Congrats! You should be sharing tips with us hopefuls for making it! :)

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then you can brand yourself that way! I minimized discussing my work in the consulting and focused more on the product tasks that I did

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Yeah I struggled with that too. I talked about what the business objective was and how the product helped achieve that. I will say in my project, I didn’t do an implementation. I did build a real mobile application that the client’s customers would use so that was good.

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