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Career Change Resume Format

Career Change Resume Format

This is were it get's different, because you are changing career / job, your experience in not going to be an exact fit with your target readers requirments.

Your CV / resume has to be reordered to compensate for this.

For examle if you were looking to move from being an accountant to becoming a landscape gardener, your target reader is not going to want to read about all your accountancy adventures.

So your old CV / resume is dead (well in need of reorganising).

So if you have interpreted what your reader is looking for (discussed in the above link), you then have to give them what they want and in the order of importance to the reader.

Put simply this means you show your reader the generic skills and experiences you have that are relevant to them (example communication skills, leadership, sales, creative, commercial etc).

Career Change Resume Format - Options

Next – decide on the type of layout that best promotes your strengths for your target role.

Chronological Resume Template – Traditional format, the one to use if you have good career continuity with no major gaps, and you are looking to continue your career in a similar field.

NOT The one for anyone making a significant career change.

Functional Resume Template – Enables you to promote your skills above your experience. A good format if you have career breaks or if you are looking to move in a new career direction where you don’t have experience.

This is more like it.

Combination Resume Template – Enables a best of both type approach, where you tailor specific functional skills and experience for your target role as well as demonstrating your career continuity and progression.

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