Hiiiii! My name is Tina Louise. Taiwanese girl currently living in Toronto. In this channel, i talk about product management, career in tech and some personal diary!
I got it from 大創! Idk if they still have this size tho. The last time I went back and tried to find it and they sold out! 🥺🥺🥺 if they have, plz let me know too hahahaa I wanna get more!
Thank you Tina! I have been on a journey to land a full time tech job since last year and have been fortunate to land a part time Jon dealing with PCs at a local community College. I recently got Pinterest Intern notification to apply and wide up missing the deadline. Nevertheless none of the apprenticeship were customer success but read through all they had and found the confidence to look closer into Product Manager. Realized my experience in over 15yrs in customer service (remote and call center) in product knowledge, being a coordinator for a non profit start up and then 9 months part PC tech makes me more than qualified to apply into a product manager role with no degree or exact experience in the role. But my skills from experience says otherwise. I hope you can respond with so motivation that thi is true and I can do this ?? Thank you Tina! @Tina Lousie Chen
I want to ask please did you have to build a project , or a portfolio before you entered the job market . Please I am in a dilemma I have the skills but I am asked to build a product or so
In a way, it's not that far of a leap from advertising/marketing to product manager. both involve understanding the user's pain points and what they want. listening to your story it sounds like you had lots of career experience leading up to PM and it was a natural career progression. even starting out in customer service, all of your prior roles were definitely stepping stones. good for you taking initiative.. but the title is not really accurate.
I agree having the customer empathy is a very important aspect of PM career. However, a lot of times, during my job hunting experience, recruiters directly asked me “were u a PM before?” And when I said I had those experience listed above, they said that means u don’t have the PM experience. I’m grateful that my current company took a chance on me! 😭 I hope ppl who were in my shoes can be inspired and take the leap as well
Hi, Tina! I’m inspired by your story and would love to connect. Is it ok if I add you on LinkedIn and potentially schedule a meeting with you? I would love to pick at your brain on what you’ve learned over your journey.
Ofc happy to help! Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn and we can go from there! Feel free to also post your questions here so we can empower the community all together 😄😄
Hi Tina- I am currently working as Senior Associate consultant in Infosys.. I have 4years 7months of experience in IT(graduated Btech-CSE)..But I am planning to switch to PM....is it possible to transition to PM...what are the source to start..please let me know
It’s possible! I will highly encourage to start connecting the dots between what you do now and see what are the transferable skills, take courses to learn more about what PM do and start crafting your story! In my most recent video, I shared more in depth steps on how to accomplish this. Feel free to take a look! :)
amazing video and content. thank you for your inspiration and sharing all of your knowledge and experience! The high frequency of the very small space between micro-edits in this video was a bit intense/distracting for me. It's a popular editing style and it works well, but when there's like 10 edits in one sentence, and sometimes several very short edits between several connected words, it can be a little overwhelming. Anyhow, love the content! Looking forward to more
Hi there!! I think PM experience and portfolio go hands in hands. You will need some relevant experience to build the PM portfolio! Having those relevant experience to build the portfolio has the highest chance to land you a PM role. Good luck 🍀😀
@@tinalouisechen Thank you very much TINA for the very detailed answer, you are wonderful There are some camps that focus more on portfolio, so does that replace the experience, especially when you are a new graduate and in a field other than technology ?
Now I know.....why uber eats had a very bad experience for me in terms of user experience and help and support customer care. Because they are hiring PM with 0 years of experience.
as a recent business graduate who 1. can't get a job and 2. is researching on maaaaany industries and areas, this video has been super helpful. downside (mine) is that as a very curious person sometimes i get interested in many different things and then i dont know what to do lol or what to try first, or what to get started with anyway, i loved the video and your vibe! funnily enough I was also making and drinking coffee so it felt like a nice chat w you! <3
Hi Melissa! I definitely felt that before! I think what worked for me is just apply for jobs that I’m interested in, don’t need to focus so much on getting that “one” job! After getting into the role, I know what I liked vs not liked and I realized what I liked before its false illusion. I actually hated it haha! Having broad interests is not bad tho! Keeping life fun and exciting 🥰🤩
Hi Ashely! Thank you so much for ur words. I think my biggest insecurity is when I can’t get my point across in a professional settings just when I needed it. And that gave me anxiety. Sometimes I wonder if that gives people anxiety as well 🤯
"Everyone around you is so smart." so trueeee When using English to communicate, what bothers me is not accent or the fact that it's not my first language the challenge is how to be as smart & fast as when you are using your first language
Right now i'm in my career to be a PM and mi actual level of english it's maybe a A2 i'm listen to you and for me your english its perfect, actually i dream with a english like yours. 60% me wrote this 40% google translate 🤣.
Hiiii Tomas!!! Awww thank you! I came a lonnnnnng to get here. I didnt sound like this before at all! I felt so awkward and embarrassed when I had to speak. But thank you so much for your kind words. 🥺🥺
Can I become a PM at age of 39? I want a career change...any advice will be highly appreciated. I'm coming from a studio management background in branding agency
Anything is possible! :))) I would highlight your transferable skills from studio management background and how it can help you drive product prioritization and how you can paint a story through customer’s lens! Hope this helps! I know this is quite broad but I’d start from here!
new grad pm here 🙋♀based in Taiwan but working for a Hong Kong company. Love your content and also curious about the working/studying environment in Canada, any tips or advices?
Hi Nicole! Great to see u here. This is a great topic and maybe I’ll make a video just abt it. But overall working in Canada has good work life balance that I value!
