AMA | King’s Product Management Career Accelerator

Get a ‘feel’ for what a Career Accelerator is really like from someone who has experienced it first-hand. Adam Stead, a student currently enrolled in the King’s Product Management Career Accelerator in conversation with Daniel Cairns, Head of Enrolments at Fourthrev, has all of your most pressing questions about this programme answered.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction and welcome
02:45 Overview of the King's Product Management Career Accelerator
10:31 Introduction to Adam Stead
13:19 What stood out to you about the King's Product Management Career Accelerator when looking for an online programme?
14:27 How do you fit this programme into your life, with a fulltime job and two kids to manage too?
17:56 How practical have you found the content to be and can you see ways that it can be applied in the real world?
19:49 How have you found engaging with your Career Coach?
22:40 What's the calibre of students in your peer group and how connected do you feel to them?
26:12 Do you feel like you need a lot of technical knowledge for this programme?
27:10 Is there anything you wish you had known about the programme before you decided to do it that you can share with others who are in the process of making a decision?
30:40 Audience Q&A starts
31:02 How did you fund the course and do you feel like it's been a valuable investment?
33:39 In your opinion, what types of jobs and companies can people expect to work at following the course?
35:48 I've seen that it's hard to be hired without any experience. What's it like working on the real-world industry projects?
36:57 Employers are often reluctant to hire people without a technical background in something like Computer Science. Does this course bridge the gap and to what extent?
39:36 What could be improved about the programme?
42:05 What help do learners get in securing employment during or after the programme?
44:44 What day do you have your live session?
45:30 How do you find the facilitators of those sessions?
48:40 What level is this programme pitched at?
49:20 Do you feel like you're disadvantaged at all not being based in London?
50:44 How important are communication skills?
52:00 For beginners, do you feel like there is enough teaching time?
53:02 What certificate do you receive at the end of the programme?
53:26 Adam, what are your top tips for the webinar attendees when deciding whether to apply for the programme or not?
54:59 Event wrap-up, thanks, overview of exclusive head start package and what is needed to submit an application