How to Get into Product Manager Interviews by OkCupid PM

Product Management event in San Francisco about how to get into product manager interviews.
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This talk was aimed at job seekers, and is completely focused on how to get a higher number of first-round interviews for product management roles and how to succeed in those interviews.
Main takeaways:
-How to get informational interviews with people who you’re not socially connected with
-How to turn those informational interviews into invitations to apply to a company
-How to ask the right questions to get meaningful information about a company, instead of polite replies
-A system for organizing your job search
Matthew Du Pont has spent his career so far consulting at BCG, product managing at OkCupid and two other startups, and founding a VC-backed company. He’s turned down a product management offer from Google, and has a personal ~80% first interview to offer conversion rate since 2009. As a job search coach, he’s helped over 20 people improve their career, and documents best practices of job hunting at unusuallydifficult.com.
Chapter 1 0:17 Speaker Background
Chapter 2 2:23 Introduction
Chapter 3 3:41 Why Applying Online Usually Doesn't Work
Chapter 4 7:11 Branding - How Do You Stand Out?
Chapter 5 12:00 Informational Interviewing
Chapter 6 13:38 2 Ways of Applying to a Company
Chapter 7 16:38 Process for Informational Interviewing
Chapter 8 22:08 Keep Track of the Jobs You Apply for
Chapter 9 23:43 How to Write Applications
Chapter 10 25:24 Q&A
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Product leaders from local top tech companies visit Product School campuses each week. Through lectures, panel discussions, and a variety of other forums, the world’s top product managers visit Product School to provide invaluable real-world insights into critical management issues.
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[@segejung]

How early should I be starting to reach out to individuals at companies I want to work for? I don't want to start the process too early (1 year).

[@victorxu9634]

This guy interviews

[@manauwarsheikh]

hahaha