What Do People Do All Day?
What Do People Do All Day?
Sara Isabel Seymour
Jeff on going from being an East Asian Studies major to a product manager
1 hour 3 minutes Posted Mar 30, 2022 at 8:00 am.
Meet Jeff
Jeff's first job out of college (analyst at Nielsen)
Pivoting to product management
Summary of Jeff's path after his first product management job at a small LED company and deciding to go to business school
Leveraging your network (part 1)
Learning how to be a product manager 
Other career paths considered
Getting a consulting role and leveraging your network (part 2)
Deciding to go to business school, applying, and leveraging a safe-to-fail environment
Being a product manager (what he likes and what someone might not like)
Being a product manager (day-to-day at different sizes of companies)
Lessons learned
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In this episode, I speak with Jeff Hartsough, a product manager at Cisco. Though he wasn't initially sure what he wanted to do when he graduated college, he knew he wanted to be able to use his Chinese language skills. From being an East Asian Studies major, to the first product manager hired at a start up, to being a product manager at a multinational technology company, we hear from Jeff about what it's like to be a product manager and how to leverage your network.
This episode is best for: homing in on what you're looking for so that you can leverage your network effectively; learning about product management; how to enter that kind of role if you don't have a technology background
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