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Write a product-focused CV and profile
Hiring managers read quickly. Show outcomes you owned, decisions you made and evidence of product thinking, whatever your previous job title.
About 1-2 daysEvergreenLast reviewed 9 November 2026
Who this applies to
- Skills it builds
- Communication and influence
- PM types
- All
- Product types
- All
- Starting points
- Exploring product management
- Ways of working
- All
- Experience
- Beginner (under 1 year)
- Size of organisation
- All
Steps
- Write a one-line headline that says what you are aiming for and what you bring, for example 'Engineer moving into product, with experience of shipping features used by thousands of people.'
- For each past role, write three bullets in this shape: what you owned, what you did and what changed, with a number where you honestly have one.
- Highlight end-to-end ownership, working with other teams and decisions based on evidence.
- Add a 'Product work' section with your practice project and a link to your case study.
- Tailor it for each application: read the advert, pick its five main needs and make sure your strongest evidence for each is easy to find.
- Remove jargon from your old job and keep the CV to one or two pages.
- Ask someone who has hired PMs to read it, and change one thing.
Tool examples
- Google Docs
- Keep one master CV and make a copy for each application.
- Claude
- Paste a bullet (with no confidential details) and ask which outcome is missing. Only keep numbers that are true.
Definition of done
- A one-to-two page CV with outcome bullets
- A 'Product work' section with a case study link
- A version tailored to one role
Common pitfalls
- Listing duties instead of outcomes
- Inventing or inflating numbers
- Using one CV for every advert