I’m working at a dead end job with no paths to shift to a product management roles. It’s also a tough market for jobs and I’m looking to develop PM skills for the future. I currently volunteer as a product owner at an NGO for a few hours a week but I’m looking for more resources that can help me fill gaps in my PM experiences so I can learn more and inadvertently stand out in my resume.
My advice as a PM people leader: build stuff.<p>Historically, as a PM, you couldn't do anything without an engineering counterpart.<p>Now, with GenAI tools, new PMs can easily create and deploy their own apps. In doing so, you'll learn the core PM job skills (for example, thinking about user value, defining requirements, creating designs) and get introduced to the core technical work (for example, writing and testing code, deployment).<p>The latter is very important for PMs to understand and it's now much more accessible than in the past. You can use Cursor and various Figma to Code platforms for code, and ChatGPT and Claude to help with deployment.<p>When I'm looking to hire PMs, those who have actually built stuff have a leg up over other candidates.<p>Hope this helps!