Metrics Sense: Explaining a Metric on Your Resume
Understand how to articulate the metrics listed on your resume by explaining their selection, measurement, and the specific contributions you made. This lesson guides you through providing context, describing metric calculations, and showcasing your hands-on role to prepare for technical program manager interviews.
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Question
You mention on your resume that you moved the number of user sessions by X%. Why did you choose to measure this metric? How did you calculate it? What were your specific contributions in moving this metric?
Background
Assuming you have some program management experience, it is very likely that your resume mentions (or should mention) that you moved some metric by some percentage or value. It could be revenue generated, dollars saved, time saved, users gained, or something else. Being able to dive deep into these statements is important to show how engaged and hands-on you were in the project. This question is also good practice for thinking through what makes good success metrics and what the various trade-offs and edge cases are involved when doing so.
Solution approach
We’ll breakdown our answer as follows:
- Provide context into the