Resume Examples for Career Change
The following sample resumes address the issue of change in professions, transitions to different industry, or entering a new profession in a new industry. Click on the job title to see the whole resume.
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Secondary English Teacher at High School Level
Sample Resume for a Job as Secondary English Teacher at the High School Level
This job seeker managed two tricky issues in her resume: job hopping and a career change. She used a functional resume format to stress her skills rather than her sketchy work history, which contains job titles that are not relevant to her [...]
Manufacturer’s Sales Representative in the Fashion Industry
Sample Resume for a Job as a Manufacturer’s Sales Representative in the Fashion Industry
This job seeker has a colorful work history filled with job hopping, self-employment, and a gap in employment due to travel. He wants to make a slight career change within the sales field. With no dates in his Education section, it is [...]
Customer Service Representative
Sample Resume for a Job as Customer Service Representative
With a history of temporary and short-term jobs, this career changer created a very marketable resume even though he has no college degree and is currently unemployed. Functional resume. Plain Text version of this resume for posting online.
Pharmaceutical Sales
Sample Resume for a job in Pharmaceutical Sales
This career changer used a format that easily shows that she has the perfect match of college education and professional experience to qualify her for the job objective stated near the top of her resume. Combination resume. Plain Text version of this resume for posting online.
Project Management Focusing on Program Development and Training
Sample Resume for a Job in Project Management, Focusing on Program Development and Training
This job candidate has been hard at work on his Ph.D. program, which he has not yet completed. His work history lists short-term jobs and one gap in employment during his education. He is currently unemployed and is seeking a position in [...]
Project Manager
Sample Resume for a job as Project Manager
This job seeker used a resume format that keeps the employer’s focus on the job objective, which is a career change for the applicant. Note how the accomplishments in the body of the resume were categorized according to where they happened. Functional resume. Plain Text version of [...]
Assistant to the Art Director
Sample Resume for a Job as Assistant to the Art Director
To make a career change with this resume, the job seeker highlighted his current relevant freelance work, saying it was concurrent with his full-time employment. Chronological resume. Plain Text version of this resume for posting online.
Program Coordination and National/ International Promotions
Sample Resume for a job in Program Coordination and National / International Promotions, Working with California Vintners.
This resume uses volunteer, college, and travel experience while attending college to demonstrate the applicant’s qualifications for her job objective, which is a career change from the work she performed prior to earning her M.A. Notice how she briefly [...]
International Human Resources
Sample Resume for a job in International Human Resources
This job seeker worked his way through college. So that he doesn’t appear to be a job hopper, he listed several of his short-term jobs under a subcategory, “Mostly Concurrent with Education.” With this resume he plans to make a career change. Functional resume. Plain Text [...]
Employment Specialist
Sample Resume for a job as Employment Specialist
This father is re-entering the workforce after 14 years of full-time parenting. He wrote about volunteer and temporary jobs that support his job objective, which is a career change from his pre-parenting days. Because he presented his current volunteer work as a job title, it is not [...]
MFCC Therapist
Sample Resume for a Job as MFCC Therapist (Marriage, Family and Child Counseling / Psychology)
This job seeker used several techniques to create an effective resume for his career change. He does not have a job objective statement; instead he placed his all-telling M.F.C.C. degree next to his name in the heading. By grouping his several [...]
Organizational Development Consultant
Sample Resume for a Job as Organizational Development Consultant
This resume is for a mother who is currently unemployed and re-entering the workforce after 13 years of full-time parenting. She wrote about her extensive volunteer work under Professional Experience, which supported her career change from the one she had prior to her gap in employment. [...]
Position in the Holistic Health and Beauty Field: Client Relations, Sales, and Office Management
Sample Resume for a job in the Holistic Health and Beauty Field with Emphasis on Client Relations, Sales, and Office Management
To make a slight career change, this job seeker organized her qualifications under relevant skill headings in the Selected Accomplishments section of her resume. Functional resume. Plain Text version of this resume for [...]
Project Management, Focus on Organization and Training
Sample Resume for a job as Project Manager Specializing in Organization and Training
This resume uses paid and volunteer experience (listed under Additional Experience in the Work History section and referred to in a statement under Relevant Accomplishments) to support her career change. Because the job seeker has no college degree, she eliminated the Education section [...]
Generalist Position in Human Resources
Sample Resume for a job as Generalist in Human Resources
This career changer wanted to highlight his transferable skills by creating subheadings under the Relevant Experience section. Because his relevant experience came from one place of employment, he listed that employer at the top of the Experience section. Within his Work History section he mentioned his [...]
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