Rapid Resume Review: Vancouver Product Leader

Part of our role as Recruiters is to represent our candidates in the best possible light. Thus, we often offer resume reviews to help candidates build a resume that better highlights their skills and accomplishments.

Meet Chris! Chris is a product leader based in Greater Vancouver. He’s been a part of many successful exits and has built and led large-size product management teams. Watch this video as our Head of Product Practice, Heidi Ram, reimagines Chris’ resume so that it better conveys his product story.

Product leaders often struggle to determine how to condense a career filled with achievements and successes into a few short pages. So here are our top 3 tips for Product Management leaders who need to update their resumes:

Introduce your mandate

Whenever an employer makes the decision to hire a leader for their product organization, they typically do so for one of these two reasons:

• There is a problem that needs solving
• There is an opportunity to realize

Helping the hiring manager understand why you were selected for your last role will make it easier for them to hire you if they want someone with the same background as you.

Be specific

In a world of data-driven product decisions, employers want to understand the scope and scale of your products, your business, and your accomplishments with as much detail as possible.

A resume that lacks metrics or specifics suggests that a candidate either doesn’t have specific accomplishments to brag about, or that they do, but don’t feel it’s necessary to mention them.

Business point of view

Often what separates two product leaders is how they communicate their story — as it relates to the leadership of the business, and not just about their leadership of the product function.

• How did your decisions advance the business?
• What is the analyst community’s PoV on the decisions you made?
• How was the business able to scale based on the new product introductions you championed?

Ensure your resume addresses these questions to differentiate yourself from other candidates.

We hope you benefit from this Rapid Resume Review! If you are a product leader interested in a resume review, please email resumereviews@mbassett.com.