How to create a Product Manager Resume

In this video I'll share with you the secrets to having a perfect resume that will stand out and get you that callback from recruiters! Follow this step by step guide to step up your game and have an impressive resume!

@0:39 Facts about Recruiters and Resumes
@1:58 Format of your resume
@2:44 Length of your resume
@3:12 Sections of a resume
@7:48 Grammar, Spelling and Punctuation
@8:34 Product Management skills in your resume
@11:00 Tailor your resume to specific jobs

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💻 About me 💻
I'm a Senior Product Manager by day and content creator whenever I have a few minutes in the morning, day or night to spare! I have experience working in Product Management at Microsoft in AI & Machine Learning, as well as Cisco in Wireless Technologies. I'm originally from Mexico City and I moved to the U.S. in 2015 to study my MBA at Duke University. I discovered Product Management when I started Business School and since then, it has been my mission and my passion to help others break into this role!

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✅ Disclosure ✅
This video is not sponsored; all opinions shared are my own.

Resume Templates:

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Tips to have a great Product Management Resume:
1 - Format
* When it comes to the Format recruiters are looking at resumes to find who can be a potential good fit for the Product Management role based on the candidate's past experience, they are not looking for a graphic designer.
* A simple white and black resume with no extra format is as powerful as any other design. Your accomplishments should be the thing that shines! not your design.

2. Length of your resume
* Unless you have more than 10 years of experience, don't use more than 1 page. Recruiters will spend about 6 seconds looking at your resume and now you are asking them to split that time into more than one page? Also, make sure that the font style and size you use is readable, don't try to save some space by making your font size 5.

3 - Sections
* The first thing to add at the top is Information about you.
* I don't recommend adding a photo to your resume.

2. Education
* Make sure you list your degrees starting with the most recent one. Add some of the extracurricular activities you did.

3. Work Experience
* Every line starts with a verb in past tense, describes what you did (not your job description) and measures the impact you had. Measuring impact can be, for example, about increasing revenue, saving costs, improve performance, reduce time in a process or increase customer satisfaction, among others.

4. Additional Information
* While the main content should be focused on Education and Work experience, you can add skills ("Excel" is not a skill anymore… don't add it), volunteering that you may have done, interests (to show that you are more than just your job), languages, online degrees and certifications or projects that you have worked on.

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[PMDiegoGranados]

What advice was the most helpful? What else have you used that worked?

[neelmehta]

I am glad that atleast I get to know this channel and learn that you need to add what you achieved not what you did in your past experince.

[divyanageshrao]

The last part about how to tailor resume based on J D and seeing the result of tailoring was epic!!!

[anirudhs]

Loved the point that says to measure an achievement. Shows the impact created as well as provides the personal tone to a resume. Just blandly writing job responsibilities seems like something that one would generally find on a job posting flyer!

[arpitasethi]

Your videos are like a good book; you want to read (read 'watch') them again and learn something new, every time!
When I watched this video earlier, I got the idea of what to do with my resume and that transition was possible; then started finding out more about PM. And now I feel I should create my resume for applications and so re-watched the video and feel better.. getting back to work.
Thank you :)

[eshandeane]

This if the first time I saw someone present a heat map showing eye tracking when recruiters scan resumes and it helped me rethink the layout and how to word my resume. And using a layout similar to what you showed helped me reduce the pages whilst retaining the same details. This video is awesome. Thank you Diego!

[amandasurprenant]

Thank you Diego! I was always under the impression that an objective is needed, based on the studies you showed, that section is hardly even read. Now I can make more use of space.

[lydellbaynard]

This video was simple and gave straight directions and guidelines to develop a "Product Manager" resume. I learned your resume should show result driven bullet points.

[gdibiase]

Best video to improve your resume. Thank you for sharing the tools and insights Diego!

[marinelakane]

Thank you for the advice Diego. This video was very helpful. I removed some sections from my resume and consolidated it to a single page.

[padgysoltis]

Thanks for the video! Very helpful information. Time to update my resume!

[nishantchaturvedi]

This has been my Go To Channel for PM role related stuff! Great content.

[sdungan]

Great video! The points about maintaining some white space and avoiding buzzwords were compelling!

[myfavtech]

Thanks Diego. This gives me much hope and helps me focus on key areas that are truly lacking in my resume. On to this project!

[takoyaschultz]

I really enjoyed this video and have removed the objective and summary from my resume. Thanks for the tips!

[abhiyashjain]

Really helpful !! The best advice for me was the structure explaining some common mistake done by people and how to improve from it.

[schooltutor]

Thank you for the insight Diego! Especially the tip about adding data :)

[preetaparvati]

Thank you Diego for such amazing videos. It's so thorough and informative and it really helped me in creating my PM resume.

[eusouojonathan]

Getting the structure right for the experience section was key

[thomsont]

Very helpful. Diego. Getting to one page is a challenge for 10 plus years of experience. Thanks for the valuable tips