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# Career planning
## Personal characteristics and desires
**Overview**. These are facts about Duyen
- Willing to consider opportunities in new fields
- Prefering dynamic jobs, which is not repeated and regularly bring new challenges
- Good adaptability is one of the strongest advantage

**Reading and information searching tips**.
* *Reading resources for consideration*.
- Quora - A good Q&A platform, which has questions about all topics and answers from reputable and high-quality people
- https://gopractice.io/ - A good website, which is like "everything about PM"
- Reddit - A Q&A platform, like Quora, but with answers provided by crowds. This website is suitable to get an idea of majority's opinions about some topic
* *Information searching tips*. Type "{question} quora/reddit/etc." on Google search bar
- *Example*. "Switching from marketing to product manager quora"

## Option 1 - Brand marketing jobs
WIP

## Option 2 - Product manager jobs
### Step 1 - Grasp an overview of product manager and the possibility of switching to PM as a marketing person
* *Round 1 - What is product manager*.
- *Types of product managers (PMs)*. Business product managers (BPM) and Technical product managers (TPM)
- *Short definition of PM provided by TPM (technical product manager) at Yahoo and Workday*. https://productmanager.quora.com/What-is-a-Product-Manager
- *Detailed definition of PM*. https://glints.com/vn/blog/product-manager-la-gi-cac-ky-nang-quan-trong/
- *Salary of PM in Singapore*. https://www.mycareersfuture.gov.sg/search?search=product%20manager&sortBy=relevancy&page=1
- *Work visa and income levels in Singapore*. https://billnguyense.notion.site/Introduction-to-EP-Singapore-working-visa-for-tech-workers-ce9103e7810043489a6019dd774fc67d
- *Round 2 - Switching to PM as a marketing person*.
- *Interviews with PMs (at top-tier tech companies) which made a transition from marketing to PM*. https://gopractice.io/skills/from-marketing-to-product/
- *Transitioning from marketing to PM by an ex-PM at Microsoft*. https://hackernoon.com/from-marketing-to-product-management-3de21282c7ce
- *Opinions of people switching from marketing to PM*. https://www.quora.com/How-should-one-move-from-marketing-to-product-management
- *Round 3 - Self reflection*. Have a self-reflection to know whether switching to a PM-role is appealing or not
- **Note**. At this step, it is okay to seek for more information in order to make further decision if the given information is not enough
- *Round 4 - Having a 1v1 conversation a PM*. Have a conversation with a real-life PM to understand more deeply about PM roles, e.g. daily life of PM, challenges and benefits of being a PM, requirements to be a good PM, etc.
- **Note**. Giang connects Duyen with chị Chau Vu for this conversation

### Step 2 - Conduct a plan to switch from marketing to PM
WIP

### Step 3 - Plan execution
WIP