First, I have reached out to dozens of potential PMs in the hopes of moving from a 10 year career in social impact to Product Management in the tech sector. I never receive a response of interest.
Second, I often hear how easy it is to find a mentor and it seems like I am striking out for unknown reasons. I have changed my ask (beta testing it against those who respond to the first question - advice oriented) but not the ask itself.
Lastly, I interviewed with Google for a PM role and let nerves get the best of me.
P.S. Things I have done outside of looking for a mentor:
Readings:
1. Cracking the PM Interview
2. Cracking the Coding Interview
3. Many other PM books
Learnings:
1. Advanced Project Management Certificate Stanford University
2. Various online PM courses (Coursera, UDacity, Edx)
3. General Assembly PM course
Experience:
1. 10 years leading teams designing and building products at the bottom of the pyramid.
2. Founded a "hard tech" company and was part of the Impact Engine in Chicago.
3. Various other companies and side projects around Product Management.
4. I also teach UI / UX as DesignLab.
Additional Info:
1. Personal Website: www.alanhurt.com
2. Linkedin: https://pa.linkedin.com/in/alanhurt
Any advice would be greatly appreciated (purposefully not specific to solicit a broad range of responses).
Thanks!
Based on your online profile, you have a laundry list of experience. If you're interested in PM, you need to gear that experience toward it. Give me numbers of how your work impacted key metrics, show me how your designing thinking/user research skills in UX translate to customer development, tell me how you can wrangle a team to ship stuff that people want. You clearly know all this stuff from what you've read and learned but now you need to prove it to those looking.