4 Ways to Stand Out in this Difficult Job Market

1. Start a Substack and consistently write about what you know. Share your insights, lessons learned, industry perspectives, and project breakdowns. Showcase your work publicly and share your Substack articles on LinkedIn, include them on your resume, and send the links to recruiters as part of your professional portfolio. 2. Build projects that align with the industry you want to break into whether that’s GovTech, FinTech, Healthcare Tech, Cybersecurity, AI, or Enterprise SaaS. Create real-world use cases and feature demonstrations that reflect actual business challenges. Add these projects to your LinkedIn profile, resume, portfolio site, and job applications.

Landing a product manager role or project manager role is sometimes hard when one's resume does not reflect certain skills, education, and experience.

Keep reading this thread below for tips on how to position your resume. 1. Your resume needs to display these skills in the technical skills section: Agile, Scrum Framework, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, User Stories, Requirements Gathering, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Production Deployment Planning, Product Requirements Document, etc

What I have learned over the last 5 years you have to create a personal brand within a technology ecosystem.

For example select one of the following tech ecosystems: ServiceNow, AWS, Microsoft, VMWare, Salesforce, Drupal, Google.

Or choose your own.

Keep reading..... 1. Join their online communities, LinkedIn groups, etc.

This is where you create your professional network based on the specialized technology, platform or area you choose.

Tips for Building a Solid Job Search Strategy

See the thread below. 1. Update your resume and LinkedIn profile and make your profile public online, so recruiters can locate you.

Make your profile searchable (public) on job board websites and Linkedin.

Before you jump into learning the cloud, please learn the basics.

Check out these FREE @awscloud computer foundations classes: Computer Hardware, Security, Database, and Computer Networking

See the thread below for the links to the courses. AWS Skills Center: Computer Foundations: Part 1 – Computer & Network Hardware

aws.training/SessionSearch?…

If I was transitioning into tech thread 🧵.

Read 👇🏽 below. 1. I would research several areas in tech and align them with my interests, passions or current career.

Blacks in tech the best way make your resume stand out is to include a link to your online portfolio and your technology blog. Show employers your projects and technical writings. Be a BRAND beyond your resume. #BlackTechTwitter 1. Use Wordpress to create your personal website to highlight your online portfolio.

People always think I don't have a job, but I do. But, I have learned how to keep the job in it's place and still WIN in my business.

So here is how you can manage your career and business. 1. Conduct all business meetings during your lunch hour. I conduct my business coaching, podcast interviews and media interviews during my lunch hour Monday- Friday.

You got 2 months left in 2020 to earn that professional certification. What certifications are you studying for? #BlackTechTwitter 1. Study 1-2 hours a day.