How Product Managers Actually Get Hired with Andres Tenias, Senior Talent Acquisition at Lantern

You can do everything the advice says and still get the "we went in a different direction" email. So here's how product hiring actually works, from the person on the other side of it. Andres Tenias has spent close to a decade hiring product owners and PMs, and is now a recruiter at Lantern. He also went and got a software engineering diploma so he could stop nodding along to engineers, which means when he screens a candidate, he can tell the difference between talking the talk and having done the work. He sits down with us to break down what actually moves you from applicant to hire. A few things we chat through: ▶️ The most unique portfolio in the pile often shares loss and failure ▶️ What he's really searching for on LinkedIn to find candidates, and the habit that makes you disappear ▶️ The buzzword trap that makes you look like less of a hire, not more ▶️ And a slightly stalky trick for the role you didn't get We also get into the part nobody likes talking about: why the search starts to feel like a constant personal attack. What does a recruiter look for in the first ten seconds of your profile? And what's the real difference between a portfolio that gets skimmed and one that gets you hired? Connect with Andres LinkedIn:   / andresteniasgil