Career | How to have experience when you don’t have experience?

Athena Xiao
12 min readMay 15, 2020

I know the question sounds trivial, but in the job hunting, the classic catch-22 problem is real——

You need a job to get experience, and you need experience to get a job MEME
Source: Twitter

I know this struggle firsthand. When I decided to break into product management(PM) world, I was at my final year of college, so I had no time for a PM internship. I was constantly frustrated by job posts that list PM experience as a prerequisite. People told…

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