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How do you introduce yourself to the question "What do you do"?

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Eduard Hernandez
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Product Operations Program Manager Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
If you are a PM, do you say just that or go into more detail?

Look forward to your responses (and anecdotes!).
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Omar Jabbar Project Management and Digital Transformation Consultant| OGreen IT Service Inc. Ontario, Canada
It depends on who is asking and why but I usually keep it short and simple.
For interviews, a quick summary of my resume profile tailored to the job description. For general meetings, my name and job title suffice.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
I used to say "I help to turn strategy into reality". These days I say "I train others to turn strategy into reality" :-)
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May 15, 2024 12:57 PM
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That's the big Kiron! Great answer there
May 15, 2024 12:57 PM
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That's the big Kiron! Great answer there
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Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong
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Financial Management Specialist | US Peace Corps Yaounde, Centre, Cameroon
May 15, 2024 12:42 PM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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I used to say "I help to turn strategy into reality". These days I say "I train others to turn strategy into reality" :-)
That's the big Kiron! Great answer there
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Kwiyuh Michael Wepngong
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Financial Management Specialist | US Peace Corps Yaounde, Centre, Cameroon
May 15, 2024 12:42 PM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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I used to say "I help to turn strategy into reality". These days I say "I train others to turn strategy into reality" :-)
That's the big Kiron! Great answer there
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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Eduard, my answer is pretty straight forward:

On a full time basis, I work as a Senior Project Manager with a consulting company out of Vancouver and also have my own side gig in Career Coaching, Professional Development and Management Consulting!
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Keith Novak Tukwila, Wa, United States
My immediate thought is the scene from Pulp fiction: I'm Winston Wolf. I solve problems. :-)

If it's in a professional setting like first meeting with a client, I tell them I'm a project engineer and it seems a well understood term for a PM with technical oversight responsibility.

In more casual settings, I explain I'm a generalist problem solver and when people ask what kinds of problems, I respond, "What kind have you got?" (Then I typically provide a few examples.)

Depending on the project, sometimes I describe myself as a "smoke jumper". Those are the fire fighters who parachute into forest fires to assess the situation and perform initial containment before the rest of the fire fighters can get to the scene.

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