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Getting a PM Job

What Your Biggest Weakness Really Is

Most people misdiagnose what their biggest weakness for getting a particular job is. And this causes them to lose jobs they are qualified for. Here's how to figure out your weaknesses correctly

Aakash Gupta
Oct 11, 2024
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One of the most important things to do in the job search is to:

  1. Correctly identify what your weakness for that job is

  2. Flip that weakness into a strength by selling them on your work on it

In coaching PMs through questions like ‘Tell me about yourself’ and ‘Why this company,’ the number one piece of advice I gave PMs was:

You need to do a better job of ident…

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