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How to frame and highlight transferable skills during a career change?

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How to frame and highlight transferable skills during a career change When you want to change careers, a resume with your old skills won’t help you at all. It’s essential to frame your past experiences in a way that highlights transferable skills and showcases your adaptability and relevance to the new target role. As long as you’re armed with the right […]

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WRITING A CAREER CHANGE RESUME

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If you are thinking about making a career change to a new profession, one of the most challenging things you will need to do is write a career change resume. Even for professional resume writers, career change resumes are among the most challenging to write. Your resume should demonstrate how your experience relates to the

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Fun Facts – According to recent research by The Predictive Index

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“48% of employees have thought about changing careers within the past 12 months” ……….that’s nearly one in every two respondents. Here is the rest of the list from their biggest findings:1. 79% of people “feel comfortable” working in-person post-COVID.2. 63% of those with a bad manager are thinking of leaving their company within the next

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Fear of Long-Term Goals!

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Here is something interesting I chanced upon: Not only are our long-term goals psychologically taxing to think about, but they’re also scary. Fear of long-term goals can be broken down into three categories: Fear of starting: We put so much pressure on our long-term goals that we feel the need to wait until ‘the perfect

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Career Switch Mistakes!

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My client who was keen to switch her career to a new domain altogether was not getting any response to their application or was only getting internship opportunities without pay. After some dialogue, this is what we found were the red flags: ? She had posted and featured her Résumé on LinkedIn, which means the

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