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Louise Kursmark, MRW, JCTC, CEIP, CCM One of the leading resume-writing experts in the United States, Louise is an authority on a wide range of career and employment issues. She has written 18 books about resume writing, interviewing, and job search and has been featured and quoted in countless online, print, and broadcast publications. Her passion is helping people “tell their story” in a way that is compelling, memorable, and relevant. As founder and president of Best Impression Career Services, Inc., Louise works directly with senior executives in career transition. She is also a founding board member of the Career Management Alliance, was the first person worldwide to earn the prestigious “Master Resume Writer” credential, and is a 6-time winner of "best resume" awards from two different professional associations.

Resume Writing - What else should I change on my resume if I want to change careers?

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Host: What else should I change on my resume if I want to change careers?

Louise Kursmark: So, if you are changing careers your resume intro needs to reflect the fact that you are an individual with a proven skills in a certain area. You don't want to claim experience in a particular area if you don't have it but you can certainly claim skills. So, think about the skills that are needed for your new area and position yourself as an accomplished or a professional or a skillful person in that area. In this case a functional resume format might work really well for you because you can then put key skill clusters and provide some success stories relevant to those skills without having to tie them to a particular job title or a company. Oftentimes a functional resume does work really well for people changing careers. So, look at the structure of your resume and don't just change the keywords or the focus without looking to how that change is going to affect the rest of the resume in terms how it's put together and what employers see first and what they see most.