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Job Search Diaries No.8―Principal Product Manager (Consumer Media)
Lessons learned after 5 final round interviews and 154 applications over 8+ months job searching in media and tech for senior roles.
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Coach Erika Gemzer
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✨BONUS POST✨ The Relentless March of Days: A Job Seeker's Odyssey
The absurd ballet of courting love, crafting digital Golems to defy obsolescence, and foraging for economic morsels in a desert. A raw testament to…
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Coach Erika Gemzer
Job Search Diaries No.7―Senior PM
Dating while unemployed, building prototypes to sharpen your PM skills during a job search, and scouting temporary income sources.
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Coach Erika Gemzer
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Job Search Diaries No.6―Health Tech Program Manager
Abandoning a passive TPM search, leaning on former managers, upskilling while job searching, and finally taking the PMP exam 15+ years into my career.
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Job Search Diaries No.5―Director of Product
The long-tail impact of Green Card timelines, how gym swole-ness begets interview clarity, formal post-interview self-debriefs, and the importance of a…
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Coach Erika Gemzer
Job Search Diaries No.4―VP of Product
Job searching with a full-time exec role, reporting to a founder at an early-stage startup, burnout shame (and growth), and building job search systems.
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Coach Erika Gemzer
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Job Search Diaries No.3―Jill of All Trades (Program/Product/BizOps) Manager
Returning to a job search after hiking 2,653 miles on the Pacific Crest Trail. Pivoting into a new industry, becoming a first-time landlord, and the…
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Coach Erika Gemzer
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Job Search Diaries No.2―Senior Product Designer
Wedding planning while job searching 💒 *plus* freelance income deets, how to get paid for take-home assignments, and inbound lift from LinkedIn posts.
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Coach Erika Gemzer
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Job Search Diaries No.1―Staff Product Manager
Welcome to our new series JOB SEARCH DIARIES, where we peek into someone else's job search. This week: pickleball, Claude.ai, and cozying up to…
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Coach Erika Gemzer
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