Monica Lewis is the senior director of product management at LinkedIn. Despite a downturn in many industries, she says job opportunities are still out there. Her job-search advice is to get specific with what you're looking for and firm up your skill set. Figure out what you want and whyThe clearer you can be about what you're looking for in your next job, the better. You could say something like: "I'm interested in moving from engineering to product management, and I saw that you made a similar transition.

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