What is the most essential skills to learn for product managers

I am gonna graduate in June 2024 and want to get into product management, I have two internships in same domain but there is a gap after Jan 2023 because I started preparing for some exams in whole 2023 as market was very bad then , although it's bad now as well but not much as compared to last year, how should I approach towards it when getting back and what soft skills i can develop in these 3 to 4 months so as to land at good product management internship with a potential for full time conversion

Do you think pure product managers with no technical background add value to your company? Aren't experienced project managers with penchant for business more suitable for this role?

What is the most underrated skill to be a great product manager? Mine has always been the ability to make friends with people at the office. SWEs, other PMs etc

Everyone and their mother became a product manager in the last few years. How safe are these jobs in a recession. I often hear (from engineers who don’t hide their disdain for PMs so maybe a biased opinion) that they are the first one to let go. Is that true?

Thinking of exploring the PM job market for SPM/PPM roles How's the market looking for IC product roles I am doing good, but a little bored now

Hey Folks! I am a final year student and am keen on joining for a Product Management role as a fresher. Can you help me jot down some good product based companies/startups that hire right out of college? PS: I am from a Tier-2 engineering college (Computer Science) Interships in Machine Learning and Product Management.

With over 10+ years of experience in Product management within the insurance and Fintech sector, I’ve realized that product management is still not understood/defined well as a role. I’m open to all sort of queries.

Note - I am a product manager too 4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disrespectful towards their team( dev design qa name it), Recently started going to office so the attitude I am seeing is very transparent and more visible (more with the higher experience folks) It makes me wanna leave this hyper inflated role, thinking of I will end up like them scares me, and you have to do is speak out jargons in meetings day in day out and have a English accent of Shashi Tharoor. Recently my manager told that this is a role where you have to very representable or very visible and act in floor as if you are the busiest person on earth and I seriously some PMs in company doing that, they walk so fast in floor as if they will fall off or would be better to have 4 legs.

Hey, I'm an undergrad student pursuing BBA and planning to do an MBA from any of the top B-schools of India, so what are the skills that I should acquire and learn before getting into the B-school if I wanna go for the product manager role.