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Repackaging Your Resume for a Career Change
As you negotiate a career change, you will need to identify your transferable skills—what you have done or accomplished that directly relates to the new profession. Start with the competencies required by your target job and then build your resume so it directly addresses each of them. You will likely need to re-order your bullet points so they are in order from most to least relevant. Below is an excerpt from a real resume showing a changing career path from IT to marketing.
RESUMES
Career Changers
BEFORE
AFTER
EVINE (formerly SHOPNBC),
Eden Prairie, MN, May 2014–June 2018
Senior Java Developer
Conducted corporate research projects, led real-time software development projects, and managed payment and vendor relationships.
• Conducted competitive analysis communicating the need to lower average price points
• Identified churn customer services request that resulted in a new shipping strategy
• Presented a Hispanic and Canadian marketing strategy identifying high growth segments
• Led a price label software launch resulting in 200,000 ShopNBC credit card applications
• Managed a software development team that performed major system changes for the USAPA
• Created training and operations manuals which reduced issue resolution time
EVINE (formerly SHOPNBC),
Eden Prairie, MN, May 2014–June 2018
Senior Java Developer
Led real-time software development projects, managed payment vendor relationships, and conducted corporate marketing research projects.
Marketing
• Conducted competitive and consumer analysis communicating need to lower average price points
• Identified churn customer service requests that resulted in the definition of a new shipping strategy
• Developed and presented a Hispanic and Canadian marketing strategy identifying high growth segments
Project Management
• Managed a software development team that performed major system changes for USAPA
• Created training and operations manuals which reduced issue resolution time across call centers
• Resolved customer credit/debit issues by collaborating with finance and credit departments
Software Development
• Developed software for business critical systems built on Oracle 11i and Java
• Developed application in Java to route transactions to various back-end payment processors
Note that this person clearly delineated accomplishments by competency. In some cases, it is fine to categorize them in this manner. You can also use this as a framework for organizing your bullet points, but remove the sub-headers (leaving the content organized from most relevant to the new profession to least relevant).
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