How many of you guys have portfolios you share with recruiters? What do you include in them? Aby tips to get started with creating one
Your unique output is problem discovery related data - find new problems, understand known problems better around your users and key user insights. These are the most challenging ones. It's not something you can show in portfolio, but take through in interview conversations.
Only the solutions side aspects are standard execution, collaboration and data stuff - could be shown in wireframes, prototypes or product demo. They are too basic skills to demonstrate and won't make you stand out. If you put an engineer, designer in room and give them a problem, the will also solve it and make fancy looking outputs. PM's need in ensuring best likelyhood of product success and the 1st point on problem discovery, consumer insights becomes key to ensuring relevancy and succes of the product. That's why good product folks won't ask for portfolio and give take home assignments.
What matters is product success (measures)
How many product managers here have a portfolio ? Do you want to build one ? or are you working / planning to have one ? Do you think it is needed to land a job ?
Feel free to share link for your/ your favorite PM/UI/UX portfolio
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Hey, I’m applying to a bunch of roles, and I often come across a field on job applications that asks for a website or portfolio.
I never thought of creating a website for my work but it seems product companies view it as a useful way to...
I do understand that for product designers it is important to have a design portfolio but what about product managers? And if the answer is yes, what about confidentiality? I mean you can’t just share what all you developed or worked upon?
Current state - I work as a PM intern at a startup. We shipped a major release few months back and since then I barely have any work. It's an ops heavy startup, so the work we do is just supplementary and I'm not making a huge impact any...
