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A good growth hacker is a Swiss Army knife, ready to deploy a particular expertise  —  e.g. paid advertising or landing page optimization or product development  —  at any moment. But that means you have to be good enough at all of those things. And that often only comes only with lots of experience.

So in lieu of experience what can you do? I’ve identified three things:

1. Specialize in one or two areas of growth hacking

If you want to become really good at something quickly, the key is to narrow down the focus to as small of a thing as possible. Doing this lets you consume and exhaust most of the existing resources around that topic fairly quickly and gain a lot of the knowledge.
Following these steps, you could get pretty knowledgeable about user onboarding in a matter of weeks.

Just as the best products don’t try to do everything for their users – they focus on doing one thing really well – you shouldn’t try to be a growth hacker for everything. It’s easier to get a job if you’re good at something that would be very useful to a small number of companies rather than not be very good at something that a larger number of companies want.