The Vibe PM - Episode 6 

Dave Killeen: [00:00:00] Hello, Dave Killeen here, Field CPO Pendo, and a very warm welcome back to the Vibe PM episode six. For those just joining, welcome. This is where I do a deep dives on AI for you all the tools, the tricks, and the shenanigans so that you just don't have to super short to practical demos just to help us all dance more effectively with AI.

All righty, so now let's talk about something that we all dread. Updating our resume and our LinkedIn profile to make it pop. You know the drill. You open that damn doc and you haven't touched it in years. You stare at it. You think, what did I do? In fact, what should I add? How do I describe that project?

Did I do anything? So here's the brutal truth. We are not very good at remembering our achievements. We ship amazing things, and when it is time to write them down, our mind just goes blank. Worse. We write something pretty vague like [00:01:00] I led some initiatives and I improved the user engagement. It's just not great.

So today I'm gonna show you something that fixes this in a very powerful and a very effective way. An AI resume and LinkedIn builder prompt that interviews you to extract the achievements you've forgotten about, that you've even accomplished. This is what I've called in previous episodes, flipping the script.

It's from episode five where we have designed a prompt that asks us for the context it thinks it needs to achieve a goal rather than us assuming we know the context that it needs. So let's do this. So what, instead of you trying to remember and articulate your achievements, the AI conducted a structured interview all architected brilliantly by one prompt to coach out and pull up your brilliance to the surface.

This is exactly what this resume in LinkedIn build a problem I'm about to show you in this episode. It does for us. It's a six phased structured prompt that [00:02:00] guides you through the following. The first is the initial setup. It asks us whether we're starting from fresh or whether we're working on an old resume.

In this demo, we will be using an old resume, a pretty crap one, number two, then the roll collection, so it hoovers up, it extracts the rules and asks us if we'd like to add more or remove some that we don't want in the extraction. Number three. Step three, the achievement extraction. This is where it gets bonkers.

It's really, this is the magic step. It looks at all these roles and figures out where help is needed. It then asks us clarifying questions to get more specific on each role, where we have pretty high level overview before moving on to the next one. No prisoners. Honestly, this prompt is designed in a way to make sure you're giving it something meaty and useful to work with.

I'll show you in a sec. And then the role writeup, it's turning your answers into professional summaries. Step number five, the resume compilation, so building that final document. And then finally, the LinkedIn profile generation. So creating a high [00:03:00] level overview with relevant sections ready for you to copy and paste into your LinkedIn profile.

The breakthrough is step three, the achievement extraction. This is where the AI stops accepting these vague statements and starts asking targeted questions to pull out quantifiable results. Okey dokie. Meet Alex Mercer. He's a fictitious at the end who works at Acne Travel, and he has a high level CV without much in a way of detail in terms of what he actually achieved.

And so we're gonna use Alex's resume and we are gonna throw that into LM and see what it comes back with. Okay, I'm gonna copy and paste the prompt in here, and I'm just gonna say. Let's do this. Okay, we're off to the races, so now it's going to look at the prompt and then figure out how we're gonna have this chat dance back and forth.

Okay. Welcome to your resume and LinkedIn profile development session. Okay, so the prompt is designed to give me a greeting and explain to me what we're gonna be doing here together. And now we've got option A or option B. Do we want to upload an existing resume or do we want to start from [00:04:00] scratch with option B?

I'm just gonna say A please and. Perfect. Let's work with your existing resume as our foundation. Please go ahead and upload it. So I'll go and upload it. I'm now uploading this fictional resume and so saying, I see this from Alex. Are we working on this for him or did you mean to upload your own? Alex, please.

Okay. Let's work on Alex. I reviewed it and I can see the foundation that we're working with. These are the roles that we've extracted. Very, very high level questions. Before we move forward, are these roles complete or is there anything else Alex wants to include? Is the junior BA role necessary given that he's now a senior pm six years on.

So once you're happy with the roles that you're given to the ai, you then basically say, I'm now done with roles. So I'll just copy and paste that in here because that's what we want to work on. Okay. Now we're starting with the most recent role where Alex has led the redesign of the user interface to make a more modern and user friendly.

That's very high level. So we're being asked what metrics are improved, et cetera, et cetera. We also are talking about the fact that [00:05:00] we work closely with engineering teams to migrate legacy systems to the cloud. Again, very, very, very high level. And also that we managed a team of two associate PMs and there was very high level work on gathered requirements for enterprise clients for new future requests.

Okay, so let's start with whichever you have the strongest numbers for it. Okay, let's go top to bottom please. Alright, so now we wait for this to come through. Okay, now we're looking at the UI design project, the first bullet in the first role in Alex's resume, and I'm just going to mimic a per response to show you how the prompt is engineered in a way to essentially not accept it.

Okay, here we go. I'll use my voice from episode one. Yeah, so the main driver was that the old interface was, uh, just really dated and we wanted to modernize, look and feel to make it cleaner in terms of impact. It was a very successful launch. The feedback from the users was great. They all said they liked the new workflow, felt much faster, more intuitive, and we definitely saw engagement come up after the release.

It took us about two quarters to get the fully rolled out, and I know the sales team are really happy to have [00:06:00] a better looking product to demo to new enterprise clients. Okay, let's put that in. Let's see what it comes back with. Alright, I'm gonna be tilled off. Uh, here we go. One sec. Let's see what it does.

Hm, as you'd expect. We are being told that's great context, but we need to dig deeper. Dave. We need specific numbers that'll make this bullet point powerful. Let's probe on each of these areas, Dave, and then what's great about this is the prompt has been designed in a way to stop poor quality from being given back and being accepted.

So let me just give another update that should hopefully make it happy. Okay? Fair enough. Let's get specific regarding the booking engine we designed. The primary metric was time to task. We reduced the average booking time for corporate agents from four minutes down to 45 seconds, and because we remove that friction, the booking conversion rates increased by 12% within the first 90 days.

In terms of business impact, the conversion lift directly contributed to about an additional 15 million in annualized GMV, and the old project took six months from concept to rollout. Okay, so now I've got it into a happy [00:07:00] state. We're now onto the next role, and now in the interest of time, I'll just go right through the rest just to get everything else done.

So this is really, really good. And the idea is then you fly to all of the other roles, and then when you're done with all of that, it will then let you then create the updated resume and markdown file, and then you can then copy and paste that markdown into a doc, and then you can have it generate the LinkedIn profile.

Let me take you through the prompt structure. But before I do this, I wanna say that is very, very easy to create what I'm about to show you. I talked about this in episode four using Tropics Claude Console, which essentially is a developer space from Anthropic, but they've got this tool called the Prompt Improver, which lets you give it a very, very vague outlining for prompt, and it turns into what I call burger prompts.

So going from that slice of toast to something really, really rich. And so you now have this multi-step process where the initial setup that asks you for option A, option B. Do you want to upload a PF or start from scratch and then it pulls out all of the roles and agrees with you what you actually want to work on.

When you say done with roles, then it goes through each of those roles in a loop to pull out the details on [00:08:00] each of the achievements in the role, and then when you then say next role, it will loop through each role. Then it will go through a roll write up in phase four. It'll pull out everything with all of the key achievements.

And then when you say we're done, it will then generate the two page resume with all of this. And then when you say create LinkedIn profile based on the resume, it will then give you all the sections you need for your LinkedIn profile. And here are the guardrails, right? So maintaining professional tone throughout, obviously, but be persistent in extracting measurable details, right?

Don't hold back, and then if there's missing information, identify what key details you still need from the user. So this is really, really powerful, but like I say, all of this was written very, very quickly by cloud console, and you can do the same. So for the price of a cup of coffee over the course of a year, you get enough credits to have a big dance back and forth many, many, many times throughout the week.

Over the course of a year to build out these burger prompts using flawed console, right? So let's bring this home. The big idea today isn't actually about the resume. It's about helping you understand the power of these burger [00:09:00] prompts. We're moving away from the old way where you're guessing what context the AI needs up upfront and dump it all in.

We are as, I said before, flipping the script like we discussed in episode five. We have the prompt coach, the context out of us to get the job done. I wanted to show you the resume builder today, not just to help you job hunt if you are at the moment, but to make that concept pragmatic and personal. And this brings me then back to episode four where we talked about Anthropic's Claude console.

There are many tools out there that clinging to enhance prompts, but I can tell you I've played with all of them and from playing with absolutely everything by far the best is Anthropic's Claude Console, just a handful of dollars. A year will give you enough credit to have a massive back and forth with it.

Think about the ROI. If you're going to invest your valuable time dancing back and forth with your ai, it's absolutely worth spending less than a cent on upgrading your prompt first and that tiny investment ensures you have a far better dancing partner. [00:10:00] Thank you again for joining me on another episode of The Vibe PM. Please spread the vibes and I'll see you next time.

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