Please review my Exceptional Leader Application (Product Manager in EdTech & AI)

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Please help me review the evidence I am planning to provide for the Global Talent Route for Leader (I’m a Product Manager).

(A quick background on me: I have a total 5+ years of work experience working at Company X and Company Y. Company X is an EdTech unicorn where I was a Senior PM for 4 years + Company Y is a US-based AI startup where I currently work as a PM)

Letters of Recommendations:

  1. Person A = Head of Strategy at Coursera, USA (worked with me at Company X)
    They are an ex-PM at Amazon, Microsoft, Udacity + studied CS from UC San Diego

  2. Person B = AVP at an EdTech Unicorn with a billion-dollar valuation (worked with me at Company X)
    They are Head of Data Science at this unicorn + studied from Top Engg. college in Asia (IIT Bombay)

  3. Person C (works with me at Company Y)
    They are a Founder & CEO at this AI Automation company from the USA who raised funding of $8 million last year + ex-Microsoft Principal Engg. Manager at Washington

Mandatory Criteria:

  1. Proof of getting a business award for Young Woman Leader of The Year in 2024 (event sponsored / organised by a Business Magazine in our country with reputed speakers/judging jury)

  2. Academic degree from IIT Delhi ---->>> ranked at 48th in the QS Rankings of Best Engineering & Technology Universities globally with a selection rate of 0.5% among all applicants; I was part of their Computer Science program

  3. Was awarded the DAAD Research Scholarship in 2019 by the Govt of Germany where I undertook research on Artificial Intelligence for 6 months. I was only 1 among 3 people selected globally that year —>> will show acceptance letter + scholarship awarded

  4. Proof of being a Jury Member/Panel Judge at 2 social-impact incubators in India (via Linkedin posts, photos)

Optional 2:

  1. Proof of speaking at an e-Conference at UK (held virtually) in Dec 2023 & also received Best Presentation Award —>> proof will be provided in terms of the “best presentation” certificate + schedule list / flyer with my name on it, besides 30 other speakers

  2. Two news clippings from leading Business Magazines in Asia (articles published in Oct 2023 & Jan 2024) calling out my work towards the advancement of the EdTech sector, AI & social mentorship initiatives

  3. Mentorship experience of a social impact startup (during their ideation / validation phase) + a reference letter from the person-in-charge. Also show other acceptance letters from other mentorship programs where mentors are selected based on merit (from an incubator in UAE, a free-of-cost mentorship prorgamme in UK & Europe)

Optional 3:

  1. Proof of commanding a high salary ---->>> (salary = $62,000) —>> at least 3x higher than the avg PM in India (will show avg PM salary in India from Glassdoor)

  2. Proof of my work at Company X via a reference letter from ex-employee who is now a Program Manager in AI Team at Google, California. I have created numerous video courses myself for this EdTech unicorn & I will show their course website with my name on it as one of the key creators of this technology course

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overall great but I don’t think academic award is relevant in this context.

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Thank you very much for your help! :slight_smile:

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Will be very grateful if you could help me with this! @ask4jubad @Francisca_Chiedu @May @alexnk

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IMO, LORs don’t seem to be strong enough except the third one. AVP Edtech Unicorn can be replaced with founder’s LOR.
Head of strategy coursera can be reaplced with the CEO. They will help you much better.
Cheers !

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Mandatory: evidence 1, the award is not related to tech.
2. Dad scholarship doesn’t meet the criteria, it could work for OC4 that’s if you have evidence of your research contributions.

  1. Linkedin post may not be sufficient for your jury membership.
    For OC2, both evidence 1&2 are recent so it not sufficient.
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Thank you for your help!

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