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Career & Coaching Support

Although many MDPM students will be employed, you may choose to pursue new job opportunities during or immediately after completing the program. In today’s competitive business environment, career success requires focused, strategic career management.

Career Support

We provide comprehensive services and resources to help you achieve your career goals, including:

  • Career direction and exploration
  • Market preparation
  • Personal branding (Resume, Cover Letter, Professional Pitch and LinkedIn)
  • Networking opportunities
  • On-campus recruiting
  • Online resources
  • Job offers and salary negotiations

Recruiting

The CAC’s Corporate Relations team coordinates on-campus recruiting, and an online student resume book to connect students and employers. You also have 24/7 access to QUEST, our career management platform which includes job postings, and a database containing salary information and job interview questions as experienced by past Smith students.

 

Industry Networking Events:
Throughout the year, the program hosts a variety of annual industry networking events for current students, alumni and representatives from hiring organizations. This provides an excellent opportunity to meet and speak with people from industry.

 

Career Coaching:
Our team of professional Career Coaches is available to work with you to define your career objectives, and, if required, help shape your job-search strategy and fine-tune your resume, cover letter and interview skills.

 

Career Development Sessions:
Queen's provides career-related information sessions, seminars, workshops and conferences to help you create and implement effective career management strategies.

 

Online Resources:
Smith also provides a broad range of online resources for networking, career planning and employment opportunities.

 

Market Prep: Product Management

This career-progression program is dedicated to advancing the core practice and skillset of product management, enabling careers in tech entrepreneurship, corporate technology-driven innovation, and digital transformation. As such, it aims to support students interested in securing product manager jobs as well as adjacent leadership and management roles.

Sessions

  1. Product: People, Organizations and Career Choices
  2. Building & Positioning Your Product Resume
  3. Preparing for the Product Interview
  4. Navigating the Product Interview
  5. Technical interviews
  6. Behavioral interviews
  7. Mock Interviews
  8. Product Job Fair

Leadership Team

  • Tolu Arogunmati
    Director & Early/Mid-Career Stream Lead
    Product Manager, Sportsnet, Meta, Reddit

  • Heidi Ram
    Executive Stream Lead
    Product Practice Lead, The Product Recruiter (A Division of Martyn Bassett Associates)

  • Kathryn Brohman
    Director, Smith Master of Digital Product Management
    Associate Professor & Fellow in Digital Technology, Smith School of Business

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“Market Prep was an incredible program to help prepare me for my career search as I was completing the MDPM program. The content and materials provided were immensely helpful in navigating the tricky domain of Product job interviews. The program ultimately helped me identify and succeed in achieving my new role!”

Connor Hastey-Palindat
Senior Product Manager, Wealth CRM
Market Prep Summer 2023 Participant
MDPM'23

Recruiting Partnership

The Product Recruiter

The Product Recruiter is the largest practice area of Martyn Bassett Associates. For over 25 years, Martyn Bassett Associates has been providing executive recruitment services to North America’s most disruptive tech companies and transformative enterprises.

The Product Recruiter specializes in recruiting talent across all product disciplines including Product Management, Product Design, Product Operations and Data/AI specialties.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Smith School of Business and their Market Prep program for MDPM. This program provides students with the opportunity to glean current industry insights, develop a go-to-market strategy, and learn practical skills that unlock enhanced employability. This program also equips students with the soft skills necessary for pivoting or levelling up a career in Product Management.”

Heidi Ram
Product Practice Lead, The Product Recruiter

Powerful Virtual Networking

Smith delivers powerful networking opportunities within its programs no matter the platform or delivery format. From career preparation and employer roundtables, to virtual coaching, team project facilitation, and special events, Smith’s approach and platforms ensure rich engagement.

“There are many other classes on the market today that offer insight into the Digital Product Management approach, all promising short-term time commitments for accreditation. Smith's MDPM program is the only program that I found which takes a deep dive with the curriculum focused around academic thought leadership as well as incorporating the experiential application of learning throughout the program. This is the only program of its kind in this space that offers ongoing career support after graduation through SmithConnect and the Career Advancement Centre.”

Kris Hayward
Product Manager, Consumer Digital Products
Suncor
MDPM'23