Constant Rejections
I graduated in Fall 18 with an MIS degree and have been applying since then but all I get is rejections. Have worked in India in BA/SA role for almost 4 yrs , finished my MS and have been looking since then. Been working as a PM for one year now for a small startup doing custom web dev for two three clients. I’m not happy,no learning & job satisfaction and there’s no way out without another job. Someone please tell me what should I do.. the frustration is building each day! #womenintech #projectmanager #interviewkickstart #help
I get rejected without interviews. I’m not able to pass the resume screening even. Have edited and modified my resume multiple times to improve but nothing helps.
Problem is with ur degree. If u would have studied CS you would have gotten the job
Maybe, but I can not change my qualifications on this stage.. have to work with what I have and stop failing before losing whatever confidence is left in me.
Degree is definitely not the problem. Probably resume.
The market is saturated with PM’s
Please suggest an alternate course. Sadly, I’m not a coder at all and even if I force myself to code and try finding a Dev position (entry level) I’ll lose the 5yrs of experience I have gained working as a Business/System Analyst and then PM
It just means your resume needs to stand out.
I'm in the same boat as well! Everyone wants a minimum of 5-8 years of experience before looking to hire for PMs. Even I'm on my OPT, but I don't have a single offer yet. Not quite sure what's the way out of this mess.
You have to be very objective about your own skills and capabilities. If you’re a PM, at a small company, what improvement to the product did you achieve? Your resume should have 3 bullets per role in the following format: Improved X metric from Y to Z by doing W. E.g Grew DAU from 10m to 20m by building and launching an organic referral feature. Also focused on your specialty, e.g. if your enterprise don’t try consumer product companies. You need to add value to the organization and be as good, if not better, than existing employees. Ask yourself where are you better than existing employees? How can you improve their organization. What can you bring to the table?
Try to understand: Do you get rejected without interviews? Then it might be your qualifications that are missing or your CV is not written the right way. If you get interviews, how far do you get in those interviews? Interviewing is a skill of its own. Break down what skills are missing to succeed in the interviews. Either way, don’t give up. As long as you keep learning. Usually people get rejected a lot and then suddenly don’t anymore.