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Product Management
This post is part of The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions [https://andyjagoe.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-product-manager-interview-questions/] series. You’ve always heard that you should hire the smartest product managers you can. Some even say you should only hire people that are smarter than you. But what does all this
Ever notice that some people are better at getting a job than actually doing it? These are the candidates who excel at interviewing, presentation and polish. With their exceptional sales and communication skills, they present slick resumes and seem to say all the right things. But when you hire them,
Admit it … you’ve wondered. You’re hiring steadily, and it seems like you do what other companies do [http://guides.wsj.com/small-business/hiring-and-managing-employees/how-to-hire-your-first-employee/] , but you’re just not getting results. Incoming resumes are at a trickle, the last offer you extended was turned down, and you’re
Franklin D. Roosevelt called George S. Patton [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton] America’s “greatest fighting general.” Hitler called Patton “the most dangerous man [the Allies] have.” Though controversial, Patton achieved some astonishing and unsurpassed achievements in his day. If you want to win the talent war…
Have you looked at a job board recently for open engineering [http://seeker.dice.com/jobsearch/results/US/San-Francisco-Metro] or product management [http://www.indeed.com/q-Product-Manager-jobs.html] positions? Did you read the job descriptions? Notice anything strange? The job descriptions all sound almost identical! One generic paragraph about the
Entrepreneurship is tough. Do you know what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur? What if you could take a quiz to learn if you are likely to be a successful? Steve Case, former CEO of AOL, describes the three key ingredients to successful entrepreneurship as people, passion and perseverance
How many times have you slaved away creating a job description [http://mashable.com/2011/06/03/how-to-write-job-description/] for your dream hire only to have no one qualified respond? Why does this happen? Remember that when you are recruiting for your startup you are in sales and marketing mode. And
Some people love Google’s hiring process [http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2010/09/how-to-get-a-job-at-google-interview-questions-hiring-process.html] . Others hate it. Either way, the subject always generates strong emotions. I have had the good fortune to go through the hiring process and also to have led a team through