Stage 6 · Lesson 2 of 7
A resume for a career changer
A standard resume lists jobs newest first, so your old job title sits at the top. A skimming for a few seconds sees the wrong career. A uses a different order.
Open with a two-line summary naming your target role. Next comes a projects section with your two or three best pieces of proof. Then skills, then your experience with bullets rewritten for relevance, then education.
Keep it to one page and one column. General resume rules, such as parsing (how reads your resume) and , are in the Job search roadmap. This topic is about the order and framing for a switch.
Common trapdeleting your previous career entirely, which leaves an unexplained gap.
A question to check yourself, an AI practice session and 1 cheat sheet entry come when you add the roadmap to your account. Add it
Resources for this stage
Start with
- GuideFreeTech Interview Handbook: Resume Guide
Yangshun Tay
Free guide to tech resumes: structure, phrasing results and how screening works
Keep handy
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