More often than not, the people I work with want me to show them how to create materials that’ll help them change careers.
The best way to understand it is to look at examples. So, I’m going to show you how to flip one sales resume so it’d work for positions in five other fields:
In addition to your career timeline, use your heading and skills sections to highlight content creation. Ditto for your summary: Make it clear up front that you know how to string together words to inspire action.
Well, once you’ve taken the time to describe anything you’ve done on the job in the way of communications, social media, or reaching audiences; demonstrate how you’ve gained marketing experience outside your nine-to-five life.
Were you the guy who guided your team through a choppy period of change? Talk about it! Did you anticipate and resolve a serious business breakdown? Explain the benefits your resourcefulness delivered
The bulk of this magic will happen in your education section but don’t forget to polish up your skills list with a mention of the data management tools you’re savvy with. In this version, I added “Systems Analysis Certification” along with relevant coursework.
Sales Resume
This is our starting point—the resume you’d use if you were staying in sales. The job seeker leads with relevant experience and uses numbers and active verbs to show impact throughout the bullets.Copywriting Resume
Jumping from sales to an arguably more creative field like copywriting can be challenging, but both require blistering hot communication skills and a “closer” mindset. Seize any opportunity that you can to outline ways you’ve sold through your writing.In addition to your career timeline, use your heading and skills sections to highlight content creation. Ditto for your summary: Make it clear up front that you know how to string together words to inspire action.
Marketing
Sure, marketing involves the same muscle memory as sales and copywriting, but what should you do when you have next to no formal experience and you’re competing against candidates who’ve already been in the field for a bit?Well, once you’ve taken the time to describe anything you’ve done on the job in the way of communications, social media, or reaching audiences; demonstrate how you’ve gained marketing experience outside your nine-to-five life.
Operations Management
In operations, your professional value lives in your ability to wrangle teams, steer and improve processes, and most importantly, foresee and manage change. Talk of targets, metrics, goals, and measuring performance will warm your readers up—and to show you mean business, present clear-cut evidence that you can do those things.Were you the guy who guided your team through a choppy period of change? Talk about it! Did you anticipate and resolve a serious business breakdown? Explain the benefits your resourcefulness delivered
Business Intelligence
Sometimes, it takes more than shifting some wording around to show employers you’ve got what they need. If you’re looking to make a leap into the business intelligence world, you’ll want to note that you’ve completed specialized training, which can range from a bachelor’s degree in computer science (OK, less likely if you're changing careers) to a certificate or program in database technology and analysis (more likely, and important nowadays).The bulk of this magic will happen in your education section but don’t forget to polish up your skills list with a mention of the data management tools you’re savvy with. In this version, I added “Systems Analysis Certification” along with relevant coursework.
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