Changing Your Career: Must Dos

Resume and Interviewing Tips
That Get You Noticed

Changing your career requires that you utilize your resume and interviews to capture their attention.

It's a hypercompetitive job market out there, so you will need to use a little get-me-noticed prowess in your resume, coverletter, and interview.

Changing Your Career Resume and Interviewing Tip One.

Know What They Are Buying.

• You must sharpen your observation skills and look within the job description and pull out all juicy detail that embedded right there in the job description itself.

• You have got to figure out what it is that they are really looking for.
  • What skill-set are they emphasizing in the job description.

  • What factors will they use to determine which candidates actually stand a chance.

  • Which success factors can you highlight that will give you a definite edge on the competition ?

Changing Your Career Resume and Interviewing Tip Two.

Know What You Are Selling.

• You will have to learn to look at yourself as a Branded Being.
  
  
• The trick is to know how to accentuate the right assets.
  
  
• You bring an assortment of skills, passion, and experiences to the table that every candidate in your group can't claim.
  
  

Changing Your Career Resume and Interviewing Tip Three.

Accentuate Those Core Assets That Deliver Value To Your New Hiring Manager.

Your career change resume, coverletter, and interview do not give you an open invitation to tell all.

Approach your career changing resume, interview and coverletter very targetedly.

• Pick out the top 2-3 core assets that you want to highlight - and dump the rest.
• Tell career-relevant stories that highlight the value-added benefit that you bring to your future employee.

• Highlight the significance of those things that you've done in the past and the present that adds value to their company goals.

Changing Your Career Resume and Interviewing Tip Three.

Make Sure What You Are Selling Aligns With What It Is That They Are Buying.

Here's the bottom-line for making a successful career change.

• You have to understand Personal Salesmanship 101 - you can't sell them what they ain't buying.
  
  

• Don't get trapped into marketing your old career-self.
  
  

• Use your coverletter, resume and interview to directly target the needs of those in your new career field.
  
  

  • If you are a prior techie trying to win entry into a people-oriented career field, then highlight all those elements about you that will make a people-oriented hiring manager salivate.
    
    

  • If you are a prior people-oriented person trying to win a hand in the techie-game, then by all means, highlight those facets of yourself that showcase your love, passion, and skillset for all things techie.
    
    

The Career Changing Resume and Interviewing Tip Four.

Always Keep Your Eye On This Bottom-line.

Your hiring manager is only interested in those skills and passion that will make his department run smoother.

• He doesn't have the time, interest, or luxury to listen to your 30-minute disseration of your job performance in your last job that has nothing to do with him or what it is that you are hired to do.
  
  

• Thus, you must find a way to keep it short and on-point.

• You must find a compelling way to highlight your career story on paper.

Don't leave your career changing resume to chance.

Give your hiring manager a clue that you have what it takes to remove some of those knee-deep high reports off of his desk and onto yours.

• Make it easy for him to glance through your resume and make the decision to call you in for the interview.

• And...if you are not quite sure you really know how to create a resume that captures your new hiring manager's attention...then give us a call.

Here's to your career change success!

Signed: Latarsha Lytle, MBA Your career strategist, motivational coach, and biggest fan!

P.S. Don't stay stuck. Your life is too valuable to waste it in a career that doesn't work for you.

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