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Break into PM: PM Resume

Checklist
Jeg Sithamparathas, Founder & CEO, Break into PM
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Contents

1. Work experience
2. Education
3. Lengthy work history
4. Final details
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Work experience
● Try to list no more than 3 past jobs that
are relevant to the position you’re
applying for
● For each role, include the years you
were there, no months (unless
internships or you are <3 years out of
school)
● 3-5 bullets max
● Ideally, the first bullet is a short 1
sentence description of your job.
● Each point should be 2 lines, max
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● Even distribution of PM skills across
content
● Pro tip: highlight each bullet and assign
into a PM skill/trait & see if reasonably
balanced
● For PM skills/traits, try to have 4-5
themes e.g. product dev, stakeholder
management, problem solving &
analysis, strategy/vision, team
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Work experience (cont.)

Lazlo Bock, CEO Humu & former SVP of People Ops @ Google, always recommends the following format
for concise bullet points to articulate your impact:

"Accomplished [X] as measured by [Y], by doing [Z]."

Example 1
● Poor: “Increased server query response time”
● Good: “Increased server query response time
by restructuring our API”
● Excellent: “Increased server query response
time by 15% by restructuring our API”
Example 2
● Poor: “Won second place at Hackathon”
● Good: “Won second place out of 100 teams at
Hackathon”
● Excellent: “Won second place out 100 teams at
HackMIT Hackathon by working in a team of three to
develop an ML email productivity tool”
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Education
● If you’re a recent grad, or have not graduated — your education background should be on the top of
your resume. For everyone else- it should be listed on the bottom.

● Include school, degree, major, GPA, and month and year of graduation. But the further away you
are from college, the less college and university information you're expected to include.
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If you have a lengthy work history

● Avoid going over 1-page

● Instead, maybe add a short, additional section mentioning your prior experience (with minimal
detail)
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Final details!
● PDF ● 1-page!
● No objective/mission/summary ● No images/logos
● No typos ● Some whitespace
● Bullet points ● No references/’references upon
● No prose request’ line
● Light on buzzwords ● Do not include high school
● Contact info (email + mobile #) ● Add 1-line for some ‘interests’; feel free
to be quirky!