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How to redesign a resume for a career change

Let’s see how we can change the typical resume to help your resume rise among the submission pack.

Irfan Hashmi
UX Collective
6 min readDec 29, 2019

hands over a desk holding a resume with a pen, as if they are reviewing it.
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“The reward of suffering is experience” — Harry S. Truman

Changing a career is tough. I’ve experienced it first hand when I started to look on how to change from a career in Internal Audit to a career in Data Analytics. It was a difficult experience, but I hope this article will reward my suffering with the experience I aim to share with you.

Without proof of experience a lot of employers are hesitant to even entertain an interview from a candidate looking to change careers. While initially the odds may be stacked against us, there are things we can do to tip the balance in our favor.

In this article I’ll walk through how to design your resume to ensure that all relevant information and skills related to the new job are at the center of attention. I’ll also show this with my own personal resume changes as a practical example.

The assumption I’ll start with is that you do have the necessary job skills to make the career change in the first place. If not, then you may want to start to see what key skills your new field would require. A great resource is the Occupational

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Written by Irfan Hashmi

An entrepreneurial soul looking under every rock and sharing whatever he find with the world. www.ignosis.co

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Thank you for sharing. A great resource!

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This is an excellent resume guidelines.

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